The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-12

State of Mississippi, of Ugh crimes and mis-
demeanors and We demanded that the Sen
ate 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 Impeachment and make |
good the same, to which the response was
given, ''Chat the Senate would take order
thereon.
Respectfully,
J.B. YELLOWLEI, Chairman;
THos. SPIGHT,
l.. w. OvERToN.
LAW BY APPROVAL.
The Governor informed the House that he
has approved the following House bill: To
county
SPECIAL ORDER.
: The Centennial bill: The bill to increase
the number of members of the Centennial
Board was taken up. Mr.. Spight Of
fered substitute for the bill, which
was adopted Mr.. Jarnigan moved
to indefinitely postpone; tabled. Mr..
Jarnagin offered a substitute repeating
the law and requiring the nancy to
be returned to the Treasury Mr.. Muidrow
moved to table ;carried.
YEAs-Messrs. Baker, Barksdale, Blount,
Brown, Byrd of Franklin, Campbell, Car
ter, Chiles, Clifton, Cochran. Crum, Dear.
Drake, Dyer, = Edwards, Fairly FLOYD
Fortune. ellis, Gowan, Guyton, Hicks,
Huddleston, Hussey, Jacobs, Jagers, john
III.
Massingale, Monroe, Muldrow, McWhor-
ter, OvertOn, Parsons, Parker, Percy,
Reynolds, Sanderlin, Shattuck, Shelby,
Southworth, Spight, Stebbins, Troup, Tuck
YellowIey, Young,. MIR. Speaker-55.
NAYs-Messrs. Aldricli, Amacker, Bailey.
Bean, Bridges. Bird of Lawrence, Causey,
Grassland, Dabney, benson, Erwin, Feather
ston, Garrett, Gibson, Guthrie, Harper, He
Ehron, Horton, Hudson, Jarngan, Jayre,
Jenkins, Johns, Meade, Miller, McCargo
Mccormick, McInnis, McLaurin of Jasper
McLaurin of Smith, Nichols, Pennington,
Pound, Powell, Rogers. Rowan, Saunders
Stands, Shrock, Sykes, Tison, Trice, Turley,
Watkins, Vaiden-45.
ABSENT AND NOT VoFING-Messrs. Bias
sett, Bell, Boyd, Carter of Warren, Cessor
Clay. Gayden, Hall. Hogan, johnson of tia
wanda. Jones of Kinds, Lester, Mallory,
Millsaps, McNair, McNeise-16.
And the bill passed.
THE DAVIS IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES
Mr.. White, chairman of the com mittee
reported The articles of Impeachment
against Lieutenant-GoveI nor Davis, which
we publish, condensed :: =
ARTICLE 1sT. That A. X. Davis, Lieuten-
ante Governor, ETC., while AdeIbert AmeS,
Governor, was absent from the State,
on June 18th, 1875, did, in Lowndes
county, unmindful of his oath, etc.
did unlawfully, etc. receive and ac-
cept, of one w. E. Gibbs, 5000, as tribe to
IL.
tine, charged with the murder of Ann
Thomas, in said county, on August 25th
1874. which said pardon was granted and
delivered by "A. X. Davis, Lieutenant
Go, ernor, ETC., to the said Them Is II. Bar
rentine. or one Jerry Dowsing, for him, and
that said A. X. Davis did thereby felonious-
ly prostitute, violate and betray the duties
of his office, To the prostitution OF public
justice; whereby, A. X. Davis. etc, was
guilty of high crime and misdem eanor il
office.
ARTICLE ID. That A. X. Davis, Lieuten-
ante Governor. did, on the same day, receive.
from w. E. Gibbs certain chose in action
tO-wit:
Received of Henry Barrentine five hun
bred dollars cash on deposit, to be paid to
the order Of A. G. Packer upon return of
this receipt, accompanied by an Executive
with the killing of Ann Thomas, in
LOwndes county, Miss.
This receipt given in duplicate.
J. DOWSTNG.
Witness: w. E. GIBBS.
This chose in action was presented bv A
X. Dayis, ETC., to the said j. Dowsing, and
he did receive $500 as bride to grant the
said pardon.
ARTICLES Sd, 4TH and 9TH reiterates the
above charges in a different form.
The articles were agreed to and passed by
the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Aldrich, Amacker, Bailey,
Baker, Barksdale, Bean. Bell Blount, Bridges,
Byrd of Franklin, Bird of Lawrence.
Campbell, Carter of Holmes, Causey. Cross
land, Chiles, Clifton, Cochran, Crum, Dabney.
Dear, benson, Drake, Dyer, Fairly,
Featherston, Floyd, Fortune, Garrett, Gay
den, Gibson, ellis, Gowan, Guthrie. Guy
ton, Hall, Harper, Hebron, Hicks. Horton,
Huddleston, Hussey, Hudson. Jagers, Jarni-
gan, Jayne, Johns, johnson Of Winston, Les
ter, Massingale, Meade, McCargo, McCor-
mick: McInnis, McLaurin of Jasper, Nc
Laurin of Smith, McWhorter, Nelson,
Parker, Pennington, Percy, Pound, Pow
ell, Reynolds, Rogers, Rowan, Stands,
Shattuck, Shelby, Shrock, Southworth,
Spight, Stebbins, Sykes, Tison, Trice, Troup,
Tucker, Turley, Warren, Watkins, viii
kinson, White, Vaughan, Iellowley, Mr..
Speaker.-S6.
NAYs-Messrs. Brown, Edwards. Jones
of Issaquena, Monroe, Overton, Parsons,
Sanderlin.-7.
ABSENT AND NOT VoTING-Messrs. Bas-
sett, Boyd, Carter OF Warren, Cessor,
Erwin, Hogan, Jacobs, Jenkins, johnson of
Itawamba, Jones of Kinds, Leigh, Mallory,
Miller, Millsaps, MuldrOw, McNair, Nc
Niece, Nichols, Riley, Saunders, Walden,
Young-23.