The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-18
HOUSE-SIXTIETH DAY.
FRIDAY. March IL. 1876.

FRIDAY, March IL, 1876.
Mr.. Speaker Street in the chair. PRAYER
by Rev. DIR. Hunter. Present, 90: absent.
26. Leaves of absence were granted to
Messrs. Walden, Mccormick, Gayden, Gillis
and Jenkins.
Mr.. Jacobs called ups. b. to incorporat g
the Pioneer Cotton Factory, of Natchez
| The name was changed to the Adams
County Manufacturing Comp any," and the
bill passed. He also called up S. B. to
amend the charter of Natchez the amend
ments were adopted, and the bill passed.
The memorial to Congress, in relation to
the agricultural land scrip fund, asking ID
change in the terms of the donation, passed
| 5. B., supplemental to the act defining the
duties of the Public Printer, with amend
ments, passed.
! S. j. r. providing for the publication of
the testimony in the impeachment trials,
and III. b. to amend the public printing
were indefinitely postponed.
The bill for the relief OF Geo. Barrows, a
school teacher in COpiah county. passed
AT l012 O'Clock the House took recess
until IL O'Clock. to allow mem ers to be
present during the sitting of the Court in
the Ames case
BY Mr.. Powell: That a committee OF
three be appointed TO examine into the pay
ment made by the New Orleans, jackson i
Great Northern Railroad, with instructions
TO r. port list OF such warrants, ETC., and
present the same with their report, Tor ex
amlnatlon--to report at any time; adopted.
Committee, Messrs. Powell, Tison and
Spight.
By MIR. Tucker: Whereas, One Alexander
Smith, OF Chickasaw county, convicted for
rape upon the person Of a little girl ten
years OF age, and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life, has recently teen pardoned
by his EXcellency, the Governor, under
very suspicious circumstances; and.
Whereas, The facts that said Smith. a
foreigner. without friends or acQuaintaf &c i'm
this State, has been pardoned over the refusal
of the Circuit Judge and District-Attorney,
who tried him, to recomma. ID his release
and without petition from the people of
the town and county from which he was
SAINT to the penitentiaIy, by the active exer-
lions OF men from distant part of the
State, strangers TO him. and unacouainted
with the circumstances of his case. can only
De accounted for by the further fact that af-
ter MS imprisonment, he, the said Smith
inherited from deceased relative i'm Ger
many, legacy of between three and four
dollars and,
whereas, Ii is known that Hon Fred
Parsons, member of this House. was the
active agent in obtaining the aforesaid
pardon tor Ale xander Smith. for which
he received pecuniary reward. at
least TO the amount OF $500, and circum-
stances indicate that he conspired. not only
TO turn loose upon society a man convicted
OF an abominable crime, but hat he also as |
sisted TO strip the criminal of the legacy
aforesaid therefore, be it
Resolved. That committee of five he
appointed to investigate the conduct of tbe /
Hon. Fred Parsons, in connection with
the pardon of Alexander Smith, with mower
TO send for persons and papers, and that
said committee be instructed TO lay the tes- /
tlmony taken on this subject, with their
thereon, before this House. at |
as early day as practicable: adonted. /
Committee, Messrs. Powell, Huddleston.
Dabney, Bell and Brown.
HI b. to reimburse I L. Willborn. Cit |
izen of Montgomery County, was indefi-
nilely postponed.
3. b. for the relief of L. A. McCaskill.
clerk of Simpson County passed - $
10 protect contracts and for the mutual
of of the different classes of in
ierest was made the 81 ecial order for to-
morrow. the 18th. inst, at IL o'clock.
Messrs. Feathfr>ten. MuldroW and (g;f-
on were excused from services OH the IN Z
iiciary Committee.
LAW BY APPROVAL
The Governor informed the Honse that
he has approved the bill to authorize the