The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-24

Senate, and Couch, eI-Chanccllor Johnson,
Bainpfeld, Hirech, Barnwell and the Speak
er, as the committee to prepare the articles
of impeachment. - ~ IA.
The House subsequently agreed upon the
following programme of arrangements
:. when the committee to prepare articles
Of impeachment of Montgomery Moses re-
port thesaid articles, the House shall imme-
diately resolve itself into committee Of tho
whole thereon that speeches in COMMITTEES
shall be limited to ten minutes each, which
debate shall, if deemed necessary, continue
till the next legislative day after the report,
to the exclusion of all other business except
the reading of the journal; that at or before
I o'clock Of the said second day the debate
shall cease and tho committee shall then
proceed to consider and vote upon amend
ments that may be offered under the fiye
minutes rule of debate, but no merely pro
forna amendment shall be entertained; that
at or before two o'clock on the afternoon OF
said second day the committee shall rise and
report their action to the House, which shall
Immediately and without dilatory motion
vote thereon. That if the articles of i'm
peachment are agreed on, the Speaker shall
duct said impeachment on the part of the
House; and that during the pendency OF
resolutions in the House relative to said i'm
peachment thereafter no dilatory motions
shall be received except one motion on each
day, that the House do now adjourn"
THIRD DAY. ~
Messrs. P. Simkins and Sloan appeared be-
fore the bar of the House and submitted the
following:
Mr. Speaker: In obedience to the order OF
the House, we proceeded to the bar Of the
Senate, and, in the name of this body and OF
all the people of the State, We impeached, as
we were directed to do, Montgomery Moses,
Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, of
high crimes and misdemeanors in Office, and
we demanded that the Senate should take
order to make him appear before that body
to answer for the same, and announced that
the House would soon present articles of
which the response was, "Order shall be
taken"
Received as information.
Subsequently Mr.. Elliott rose to privil-
ege question, and stated that he had been in
structed by the committee appointed to pre-
pare articles of impeachment against N.
Moses, judge of the seventh Judicial circuit,
and submitted the following:
ARTICLES .
Exhibited by the House of Representatives
of the State of South Carolina, in the name
ofthemselves and of all the people of the
State, against Montgomery Moses, Judge
of the Circuit Courts of the Seventh Judi
cial Circuit of the State Of South Carolina,
in maintenance and support of the i'm
peachment against him for high crimes
and misdemeanors In office.
ARr1cIE I. That unniindful of the solemn
duties of his Office, and contrary to the sa-
cred obligation by which he stood bound to
discharge them faithfully and impartially,
and without respect to persons, the said
Montgomery Moses, judge Of the Circuit
Courts of the seventh judicial circuit, did, at
the Circuit Court of General Sessions in and
for the County of Spartanburg, commencing
on the fourth Monday in October, 1874, OBJ
struct delay and hinder the due execution
allow the grand jury of the SAID county to
of the law in the said county, by refusing to
make presentment to said court, touching
their Investigations into the violations of
law in, and the official conduct of the pub
lie officers Of, said county; and by discharg-
ing the said grand jury while they. stood
ready to make such presentment, and while
the foreman of said grand jury was express
ing the wish of said jury to submit to the
court the said presentment; he, the said
Montgomery Moses, judge as aforesaid,
thereby, causing great scandal and detriment
to the administration of justice.
ART. II. The said Montgomery Moses,
Judge, as aforesaid, in entire disregard of his
duty as such judge, and in violation of law,
of public decency, order and good morals,
and to the great scandal and detriment to
the administration of Justice, has, at various
times and places, corruptly demanded mon.
ey at the hands of litigants in the Circuit
Courts of the said Seventh Judicial Circuit
in payment for decisions on cases heard be-
fore him, and also at the hands q public
officers whose accounts he was by law re-
quired to audit and approve for payment, as
a consideration for his approval Of the ac-
counts Of said officers, and especially, did SO
corruptly demand the payment to him of
money for the approval of such accounts at
Laurens Court House, in the County OF
Laurans; on or about the - day Of Octo-
Der, 1878, and at Newberry, in the County OF
Newberry, on or about the - day of -,
1874. =
ARr. LII. That the said Montgomery Mo-
ses, Judge, as aforesaid, in entire disregard OF
his duty and in violation of law, public de-
cency, order and good morals, has, at va.
rious times and places, corruptly demanded
and unlawfully received and appropriated to
his own use, from officers Of the Circuit
Courts of the said Seventh Judicial Circuit,
public moneys by law entrusted to their
care and custody, promising and agreeing to
interpose his judicial power and authority to
protect and screen them from responsibility
and punishment; and, especially, did so cor
ruptfy demand and unlawfully receive pub
!. lie moneys for his own use at the hands oi
such public officers, at Laurens 9. H., in the
County of Laurens, on or about the- day
of October, 1873, and the 18th day of No
vember, 1873, and the - day of = 1875;
and at Newbery, in the County Of New
berry, on or about the 18th day Of April,
1874, the 11th day of July, 1874, the 10th
day Of December, 1874, and the 10Th day Of
April, 1875. rs,'I ~
ART. Nv. That the said Montgomery Mo-
ses, for about four years now last past, he
ho;no durinS the whole of said period. Judge