The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-02-13
RTY-FOURTH DAY.
SATURDAY, February u, 1876.

Mfr. Speaker Street in the chair Present
"a absent %. Leaves of absence were
granted to Messrs Walden, Shrock, Baker
Jayne, Byrd of Franklin, Leigh and Trice.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
S. j. R., proposing an amendment to the
Constitution, TO be submitted TO the people
abolishing the office of Lieutenant Gov
ernor, passed its third reading by the fol-
lowing vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Aldrich, Amacker, Bailey,
Bassett, Bean, Bell, Blount, Boyd, Bridges,
Brown, Carter of Holmes, Causey, Cross
land, Chiles, Clay, Clifton, Cochran, Crrm,
Dabney, benson, Drake, Dyer, Edwards
Erwin, Fairly, Featherston, Floyd, Fortune
Garrett Gayden, Gibson, Gowan, Guthrie,
Guyton, hall, Harper, Hicks, Hogan
Horton, Huddleston, Hudson, Jacobs, ia
gers, Jarnigan, jenkins, Johns, johnson
of Itawamba Jones of Kinds, Jones of
Issaquena, Leigh, Lester, Massingale, Mon
roe, Muldrow, McCargo, Mccormick,
McInnis,ll McNah, McLaurin of Jasper,
McLaurin OF Smith, McWhorter, Nielsen,
Nichols, Overton, Parker, Pennington.
Percy, Pound, Powell, Reynolds, Rogers,
Rowan, Sanderlin, Stands, ShattucS,
Shelby. Southworth, Spight. StebbihS,
Sykes, Tison, Troup. Tucker, Turley, War
rem, Watkins, Wilkinson, White, Vaughn,
Yellowley, Young AID Mr.. Speaker-92.
NAYs-Mr. ParsOns-1.
ABSENT AND NOT VOTING.-MeSSrS. b.
ker, Barksdale, Byrd of Franklin, Bird Of
Lawrence, Campbell, Carter of Warren,
Cessor, Dear, ellis, Hebron, Hussey, jayne,
johnson of Winston, Mallory Meade, NH
Ter, Millaps McNeise, Parsons, RILEY.
Saunders, Shrock, Trice and Vaiden-23.
The resolution having passed. goes to tie
people at the next general election.
REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
Mr.. SPEAKER: The select committee of
five, appointed under the House resolution
to investigate the alleged resistance to an
partment in the discharge of his duties BY
armed citizens in Pike and Amite counties,
in this State; and to report whether tie
said charge was true or false, herewith sub
nit their report. as well as the evidence
taken in prosecuting said inquiry. Said
evidence covers l36 pages and the testimony
of n witnesses, including those alleged
as most cognizant of the matters inquired
into, as well as the kilograms in regard to
the demand for troops. The testimony OF
Mr. Shaughnessy, Collector of Internal Rev.
enue of the 1st District of this State. was
not taken. he being absent from the State
but the proofs taken are conclusive Your
committee were instructed to INQUIRE
whether an officer of the United ) att Rev
enue or his deputy in the discharge of
his official duties IN the counties of
Amite and Pike was obStructed, and
or not the demand for troops thereupon
made was warranted by SAID alleged out.
rage. Your committee report that there
was no such resistance, as alleged, to an
officer of the United States Revenue De-
partment in the discharge of his dsties.
One w. Il. Redmond, who was Deputy Col
lector and late resident in the county of
Amite, was advised, on the evening of Nov.
ID (the eve of the election), to absent him.
self from said county, but the hostility TO
him was entirely personal-not official. lie
alleges that he lett Amite county on the
eve of Nov. ID, 1875, and that he was pur-
sued therefrom by an armed band of men
on Dec. 22d, 1876 (fifty-one days there
after); but your committee find that
body of armed men were men in
buckram." The only relieving excuse or
feature proved to justify this charge was
that in a drunken row at Summit, in Pike
county, on December I'D. 1875, personal
threats were made by one or more drunken