The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-14
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Leave of absence was granted to Mr..
Miller.
BIZ M. Spight: For the appointment of a
special comm ittee to ascertain what reduc-
ton can be made in the number and pay OF
employers of the House; adopted. Com
mittee-Me-srs. Spight, Powell and Me
Cormick.
Mr.. Baker moved to reconsider the vote
by which the Educational bill was tabled :;
lies over,
Mr.. Featherston, on behalf of the Man
ayers of the i'm parchment of Adelbert
Ames, Governor, reported articles of i'm
parchment against him, of which the follow
ing is a synopsis:
LIST. That Adelbert Ames, Governor, on
August 3D., 1875. refused to suspend w. NJ
Conner, Sheriff and TaX-collectOr of Noxu-
bee county, who had for many months, re-
fused to make monthly reports and pay
ments of such public funds as came into his
hands from collection of taxes or otherwise
to the County Treasurer, Joshua Stevens
as he was required by law to do; and that
said Treasurer, Joshua Stevens did, upon
said August Sd, 1875 and frequently before,
report the fact to Adelbert Ames, Governor,
etc.
I'd. That Adelbert Ames Governor did,
on January 28th, and February 8th,
1876, for partisan purposes, appoint
certain Justices of the Peace, and con-
stables (naming them) in Washington
county, which acts of Adelbert Ames, in
making the appointments, were in violation
of the constitution and laws, and were cor
ruptly done with the intent to degrade the
State and to bring the constitution and laws
into contempt among her citizens.
81. That A. Ames on February 10Th,
1875, unlawfully, knowingly and corruptly
approved the bond of NJ. l.. Holland, ap
pointed State Treasurer by said Ames, said
Holland, being required to give a bond of
$4,000 with three or more sureties, who
would make oath that they were worth the
amount over their debts, liabilities and ex-
emptlons IN freehold estate, to be approved
by the Governor, said Ames approved the
bond knowing that it was defective in form
and that the sureties had not taken the
oath required, for partisan purposes where
by the said Holland was enabled to enter
upon the duties of the office
4th. Ihat AdeiDert Ames, etc, on August
2Sth, 1875, unlawfully and corruptly permit
ted III. l.. Holland, State Treasurer, to re-
moneys, bonds, papers and other valuable
articles belonging to the State, after he
(Ames) had been notified by Geo. E. Harris,
Attorney General of the State, that Hol-
lands bona vas insufficient and not in due
form; and he (Ames), for partisan purposes,
did corruptly permit said Holland to re-
main in office until the first Monday i'm
January, 1876, after receiving said informa-
ton from the Attorney General. without
taking any steps to compel him to give a
bond.
9Th. That Adelbert Ames, etc.. on or
about January Goth. 1875 willfulIy, inten-
tionally and cOrruptly, in violation of the
Constitution and laws, did instigate and
cause A. j. Flanagan, Sheriff of Warren
county, to be elected from the office bv force
of arms by L. S. soldiers
9Th. That A. Ames knowingly and will
fully connived at, assented to, and assisted
in a fraud upon the State by which the
State was defrauded of $3375O, as set forth
in the following specifications: First. That
under color OF an act to amend the act 10
regulate, control and support the Penitenti-
airy, approved February 26, 1875, one O. C..
French, member of the Legislature, pass
ing the act and chiefly instrumental in hav-
ing the act passed, and personal and parti-
san friend OF Ames, etc., with the conniy-
ance and assistance of A. Ames, secretly and
without fair or open com petition or public
bidding, as was the intent of the law obtain
from the Board of Inspectors of the Peni-
Tertiary, with the consent and approval of
said Ames, on February %, 1875, a contract
by which $50 convicts were leased and hired
TO said French and his partner, G.. S. Jobes.
for their use and profit, for term OF years
ending January 1, 1880, without compensa-
tion or remuneration to the State other than
to maintain, clothe and guard said eonvicts:
when at the same time had other parties
vcts they could have been hired and leased
for the sum of $1S,750, which fact was well
known to said A. Ames. Second. That nv
the same means (Ames' consent, etc. the
said French q Jobes obtained, on Nav IA