Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-14

white and one colorsd senator vote
guilty. Formal Judgment &ill be pro
nouncsd en- Thursday, March 23J
Bills were passed establishing qnaran
tine stations st the coast ports ant
amending The charter at ssrdiss
The house adopted twenty one forma
articles of impeacbm snt sgainst Gov
ernor Ames; ayes 40, nays 8. A bill
Masking it a penitentisry o6ense to stea
hogs, pigP, sheep and goats, regardless
Of value, was passed over the GOVERNOR
veto. A bill creating 8hsrkey county
out Of portions of Warren, Washington
and Issaquena counties passed botf
houses.
The Case against Ames Fairly Stated
rroln Special Correspondent OF the Ap.
| leaLl -
JACKSON, March 13.-ft is well known
hat the house of representatives OF The
State of Mississippi, by an overwhelm.
ing majority, have impeached Governor
Ames, before the bar OF the senate, o.
high rlmesandInts1 spsaanors, and that
his trial on tbs Articles OF impeachment
! Will shoTtly commence. Tnis grave step
has not been lightly considered nor IN.
edvisedly taken. IL is not the result OF
hate nor OF party prejudice, but seems
imp>ratively demanded by every con-
sideratiOn Of public interest, as well as
by the dictates of justice. The impeach-
meBt is based up In tha report Of legis-
lative committee appointed during the
first days Of the session, who gave to the
Investigation OF the charges current
] against Governor Ames the most thor
Ougb, patient and impartial attention.
| The committee was 10 session thirty.
| eight days, and examined ffty.fiye Wit
| nessss, OF whom thirty six were Repub-
! lieaus and nineteen Democrats. AS each
successive charge was taken up for in
Vestigatior, the governor was notified,
ana requested to send in the witnesses
| who would give his version OF the mat
ter under Investigation. He awaited
| himself + ely Of this invi.
tstion, snd nearly one-haIf Of
the witnesses examined were brought
forward ny him. 1t will thus be seen
that 1t was no e1 parte proceedings, but
tlst every pUssibie source Of information
on both sides was exhausted. The re-
port OF the committee fills more than
i've hundred manuscript pages, and it
disclosed series of abuses of power Sd
gress, and political crimes and naisde.
meanOTs so grave, that upon the clusi0n
of its reSdiag in the house Republican
member off red resolution censurinR
the governor ia the most direct and ex-
pliclt terms, which resolution received
The vote Of every Republican member o.
the boGy. The house at once directed
articles Of impeachment to be prepsiei,
cove ring eleven different cases. as shown
by the committee. These charges, and
the facts upon which they are based, are
briefly as follows:
Fredericksburg to execute the laws OF
Il e State 10 his failure to remove from
Cfflee w. NJ. Conner, sheriff of Noxubes
county, who had been reported to him
IS public defaulter. w. NJ. Conner
was the Radical sheriff Of Noxubee
county, and was candidate for re-elec-
tion. He was officially reported to the
governor IS defRulter for the sum Of
twenty-five thousand dollars. Uader
such circumstances the statutes of the
State msde it the imperative duty of the
governor to suspend him from office
until the defslcation was settled. In
stead OF doing so the governor declined
to take any action, and permitted the
charges to be Withdrawn until after the
election so that Conner's prospects as
the Radical candidate might not BE-
damaged.
SecOnd-Refusing to execute the laws,
by his failure to suspend NJ. L. Holland,
State treasurer. Holland was the Re-
publican treasurer of the State. The at.
torney-general OF the State n1tified the
governor that Holland was in Office and
in charge of all the State funds without
having executed q bond, as required by
law. The Law theTeupon made IL Ames's
duty to suspend him. The governor re-
fused to execute the Law, aud permitted
the treasurer to serve out his term with
out legal bond.
Third-C lllipg for United States
troops in January, 1875, and causing A.
]. Flanagan, cher # of Warren county,
to be forcibly elected from Office by said
troops, and another person installed in
bis stead. During the complications in
Warren county, which followed the
Vicks burg riots, contest arose over the
sheriff's Office, Flanagan claimed the of.
flee, aud was in possession of 1t by vir-
tue of q popular election. His right Was
contested by an appointee Of the gov
ernor. While the matter was pending
In the couTts, Ames had Flanagan for |
chilly elected by federal soldiery, and his |
own sppointee installed.
Fourth-Permittlng q. Cassidy, char.
cellor, and J. B. Dsnson, districi.attor- |
ney, TO barter and exchange offices. Cas- |
sidy was chancellor, which is an officer |
appointed according to the constitution,
by the governor. benson was district |
s;torney, an Office by the constitution, !
elective by the people. They appeared |
before the governor, and each |
resigned the Office which he then held. |
The governor accepted both resigns.
tions, ard Immediately handed to the |
Iate chancellor commission IS district |
attorney, and TO the late district-attor- |
neV a commission as chancellor.
Fif.h-Permitting the penitentiary |
c0Ivicts to be leased out to his partisan |
friends, French and Jobes, without any |
then permitting said parties to lease out |
the same eonvlcts at very large COM
pnesation for themselves. French was the |
leading Radical member Of the legis
ture in 1918. He procured the passage |
ofan set u horizing the inspectors OF the |
to lease cut the eonvicts |
for term Of years, with permission in |
the lessees 10 sub lease them, but all |
leases TO be subject to the governors |
approval. Two OF the Inspectors were |
memb re- of the legislature and vote |
fJr the bill. The day after its passage /
hey leased to French aud Ibis partner |
JoJes, two hundred ard fifty convicts.
for three years, Without compensation,
save victuAls and clothes and guards for |
the oonvicts. On the same day French |
and JObes sub-leased one hundred Of |
to Z. Richardson, for the |
same feriod, ior seven thousand dollars. |
Arass approved both contacts. About |
q month lsteT the inspectors lessed to |
French and Jobes one hundred addition
FL coBviots, without any compensa
ton to the State. Forthwith French |
and Jobes sub lessed them to |
fIr seven thousand fivehun-
dred dollar Again Annes approved |
both contract. Thus two csrpetbag |
Radicals, the political and personal |
friends Of the governor, have obtsnied, |
without compensation, the services of |
three hundred and fifty ccnvicts for |
three year,. They retain one hundred |
and fifty Of them, and lease out the ball |