The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-02-13

IMPEACHMENT OF LIEUT.. GOV. A. K. DAVIS
LET LOUISIANA APPLY THE SAME
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Especial Correspondence of the ". O. Democrat
JACKSON, MISS, Feb. II, 1876.

Especial Correspondence of the " o. Democrat
| JACKSON, Mss, Feb. II, 1876.
| The impeachment business has at las
opened, and the monotony of Legislative
| proceedings that had begun to grow wea,
risome, is considerably relieved. To-day
the COMMITTEES appointed to investigate
the conduct OF Lieut.. Governor Davis
| presented q report to the House, accom-.
panied by the testimony taken, The re-
port recites that, after investigation, the
committee finds Lieut.. Governor Davis
guilty OF high crimes and misdemeanors
In office, and for specification charge:
"That the said A. K. Davis, on OF
about the 18th day OF June, 1875, he, the
said A. X. Davis, being on the day afore-
said the Lieut.. Gov Of the State Of Mis-
sissippi and acting Governor Of said State
His Excellency Adelbert Ames, Gov
ernOT OF said State, being absent from
said State), did agree to accept bribe
for the pardon of one Thomas f. Bar
rentfne, against whom there was then
pending in the Circuit Court Of the
county OF Lowndes, In said State. an in
dlctment for the murder of one Ann
Thomas, and did wilfully and corruptly
accept, receive and appropriate the sum
of six hundred dollars, in consideration
that he, the said A. r. Davis, Lieut..
Governor, and acting Governor as afore-
said, had granted and issued said par
don"
Accompanying the report the com
nittee presented o resolution that
Alexander X. Davis, Lieutenant Cover
nor Of the State Of Mississippi, be i'm
peached OF high crimes and misde-
meanOI
The report is signed by four Of the five
members OF the committee. The fifth,
colored man, will offer minority re-
port. TO give him an opportunity to
postponed until Mo44day, and made the
special order for 10 O'Clock that day.
There can be no doubt Of the result.
The evidence Is very direct and conclu-
sive, and Lieutenant Governor Davis
will certainly step down and out dis
graced man.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate charges against the State Superin-
tendent OF Education, L. w. Cardoza,
has concluded taking testimony, and
will probably report tomorrow. His
official days are numbered.
The AInes committee is still taking
Congressman @. Wiley Wells, OF the |
Holly Springs District, in this State, |
arrived from Washington day before |
Yesterday, and has been before the |
committee to tell what he knows about |
Ames' assertion that the killing of /
twenty or thirty negroes would be @ /
benefit TO the party. Ex-Cnited States |
Senator Pease was also before the com
nittee to-day. It is difficult TO say what |
his committee will report. There is a
strong feeling against Ames' impeach
nent, and whether it is strong enough
% override the more universal senti-
nent in favor OF his impeachment, is
ret to be determined. What the evi-
lence is can only be eonjectured, as the
are very reticent
The Senate several days ago passed q
ill materially reducing the salaries OF
,tate officers. The bill went to the
Iouse, where it was discussed for two
lays, and the salaries cut down still
urther. 1t gives the Supreme judges
$500 q year, Circuit Judges and Chan
ellor5 $500, and District Attorneys
1900, with the perquisites allowed by
NV. The bill is Of doubtful merit. A
ompetent Judiciary can never be Sc
ured at such meagre salaries.
The Senate has passed bill reducing
ne salaries OF county superintendents
I education about sixty per cent. The t
ighest salary to be paid in any county 1
! 500. The bill provides that the su- G
may teach school and {
sceive an additional salary as such
sacher, and that they may hold any
ounty office. It also provides that !
GREATER the superintendents shall be 6
lected by the people. The bill has not t
ct come up in the House. :
The House passed bill to-day repeal
lg an act loaning to the Vicksburg and
ashviIle and the Vicksburg and Ship
,land Road certain funds known as the I
hickasaw School Funds. Il
The Legislature proposes to carry the c
,trenchment move into their own a
inks. A bill has passed the House re- I
lcing the salaries Of members to $500 D
ear and ten cents mileage, and provid- a
u that for the session Of 1877 the men, p
srs shall receive only $50. 4
The Governor has approved very few L
lis, but permits them to become laws 0
1der the constitutional limitation pro-
giDn OrIvEp "a