The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-10
QUESTIONS BY SENATORS.

Wnat circumstances
A. did not.
Senator Foote: want the witness to state
positively what service he rendered for the
5000?
The Chair thought that question had been
answered.
Witness replied: | saw Governor Ames,
as per agreement.
Senator Barry: You state that the first
pardon was objected to by Col. Matthews,
and the fee was not paid on that account /; |
that Governor AmeS atterward went North, |
and after his departure the second pardon
was issued. Now state if you used any in |
huence on Governor Ames in any manner !
70 procure the second pardon? If so, state |
what that influence was.
A. did not see Governor Ames for the |
second pardon.
Counsel Spears asked the coLnsel if they
had any witnesses for rebuttal?
Manager Clifton took the stand and was
duly sworn, He stated with regards TO the
written testimony produced by the Board
of Managers, the handwriting was his The
testimony had been written on detached
sheets. and each sheet was handed TO Mr..
Packer for his careful perusal and sigma
ture. Manager Clifton further stated that
he also remembered the prominent features
of the testimony. because of the many con-
tradictiOns which were noticed by all the
members of the Committee after Mr., Packer
had left the room; with reference to the
money, the amount for which the draft
was drawn, with reference to the time
of his kno Wedge of the issuance OF the first
pardon, and he would now swear that what
the witness said at that time was correctly
contained in that written statement.
Manager Lester was also sworn, and testi-
fed substantially to the same etfect-that
Mr.. Packer had read over each sheet SEEM
ingly with great care, and adopted the
statement as a whole, to which he signed
his name.
Manager Barksdsle desired to offer this
written testimony which was objected to
by Counsel Morris.
1t was ordered by Senator Reynolds,
| That so much of the statement of A c..
| Packer taken before the Committee, and to
| which the Managers for the House directed
| the attention OF the witness, be read as teS-
| timony. for the purpose alone of contradict
| ing the witness.
Which was adopted.
| The following testimony, taken and writ
| ten before the Investigating Committee on
| a previous occasion, was shown to witness,
who identified his signature to the same,
but in this cross-eXaminaton before the
! Court of Impeachment, acknowledged the
same to be false.
There are no interlineations or erasureS,
and the witness appended his signature to
the same folio on which the last statement
is made:
In June of 1875, / was asked if | would
go to the Bay st. Louis; IL L would see
Gov. Ames about the pardon of Barrentine
/ agreed to go, and was to start that night /;
but before dark, Mr.. Rhodes, the Private
Secretary of the Governor, received dis
match that Governor AmeS would be here
on the night of The second day; | waited
until Governor Ames came to jackson; l
was approached by no one but Governor
Davis on the subject of getting a pardon
before the same was issued, Governor Da-
Wis said he was authorized to give six
hundred dollars for the consent of AmeS to
| grant pardon | kept the six hundred dol
. lars given to me by Davis; it was mine
the money was paid to me in the office OF
the Private Secretary, adjoining the Office
of the Governor; there was no one present
but myself and Governor Davis; | do not
think any of the bills paid to me were of q
larger denomination than fifty dollars, some
= fives and some twenties; Davis said to me
: when he paid that money Here's thai
money | was talking to you about, dc
not recollect any remark further than that
q The draft was brought here. and placed il
nv hands by Davis. When L first got it /
was for 5000.
I had nothing to do with the issuance Of
the first pardon. 1t was issued. L think, by
Mr. Travis Rhodes, Acting Private Secre
Il tary.
n 7 did not see that pardon, and did no
know that it had been issued, until | wen
into office as Private Secretary for Govrrno
Davis.
=, Senator Chalmers asked for the argumen
to proceed.
d By Counsel Morris, on behalf of the coun
y sci That the trial be suspended until tn
testimony could be transcribed from tn
re shorthand notes and published.
D The following order was offered Tha
this Court of impeachment, when it ad
! ha a1iOnrnpd until the teStl
mony in the impeachment trial of Lieuten
= ant-Goyernor Davis, now written i'll phone
graphic character, shall be printed for I'll
use of the counsel in argument and OF til
ID Court in further consideration OF SAID cause
and that the Court of impeachment wi
meet again for the argument and for furth'
ly proceedings, at 1880 o'clock A. NJ. on neg
: THURSDAY, the 9th instant 1t was adopte
by the following vote;
as YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Albright, Barr.
r? Callicott, Carter, Catchings, Chalmers, ~
erett. Fewcl, FITZGERALD, Graham, era
Oh Griffin. Hooker, McCaskill, Mcneil, Mel
denhall. Nets, Morgan, Oldham, Prat
o. REYNOLDS, Shirley, Sims, smith, Stewar
Stone TAYLOR, Terry, Thompson, Thornto
lat Tuttle White-33-
DO, NAYs-Messrs. Foote, Johnston-2.
do ABSENT AND NOT FoTING-Messrs. tu
long, Mcclure.
it Rv senator FITZGERALD: Ordered, Tn
rt Ruie %. of the Rules of Procedure al
Practice of this Court, be amended
e. inserting after the word, separately"
at the third line. the following words, swine
each article of impeachment charges
r. substantive offense exclusively GOVERN
one transaction; but where two or mo
les articles charge different offenses grown
n out of the same transaction, then and
'ty that case the vote shall be taken by We
ng and nays on all of said articles so charg II
or different offenses growing out of the san
transaction together upon general vote
guilty or not guilty.
Or Objected to and laid over.
O. Ordered, That three OF the Managers a
on three of the Counsel OF the respondent
Use permitted to argue the case before q
ny Senate and that each speaker be limited
two hours,
Which was objected to and laid over.
re- Senator Barry offered the following:
eff Ordered That Rule 81 be so amended