The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-15

Ido not remember single WORD aooul
n hut had treated it as a substitution.
q. How much money did Gibbs oner you
on the train!
4 He never counted II.
q Did he not tell you how Wuch
10 ala not-he cOmineuceI taitlh@'
a Ana how much did Gibbs give You OH
Ghr train!
Three hundred and sixteen dollars.
Q And you told him TO keep hAl' OF II
. q 6 5Fl Won not ask him how $3.50 came
To H. half o. Sl.230:
A. Never.
q understand You to say You consider
aElis meek a restoration of the former
one? -
UelI. sir. say this. that IL Governor
Davis had never intimated 70 iio 49, n,
sl 150 would have been my money, an" the
reason of taking out $500 was oecauSc
parkar was connected with the ma'ieI
and | knew Mr. Barrentine did not expect
10 pay more than 1880.
q Did | not understand you to say that
=. hen Davis said Packer wanted SOU you
told him you would refer 70 MT b"Ile
tine?
4. / did; and Mr.. Barrentine came TO my
oflice the very evening, and the PARDON was
examined and the dispatches read par eh-
tine was there. bat Davis was not present,
a. When Davis tOld you AiitAA
manded 5000 for hi services uld II oCeu |,
TO Won that this 5000 was to come out OF
your Sl.25O lee! ,,,+,,o,;+
o. When the check was gwen 10 u'o3s'
Won regarded tile 81 $50 check as repre-
Sentative of $I,25O which once in money
YOU had!
A. did.
q. Well, it. is not possible you expected
to pay Packer 5000 out of that ~ !29oF
subject
claim of 5000 OF Packers, and he sald thal
Packer had eXerted his influence In pro-
curing Ames' consent.
q. We'll, when you had Sl'29O IN manu-
the first time you never had hearu o.
Packer?
Al had never heard of Packer until
Davis told me it might be necessary 70 Sc
cure the influence of Packer win Ame-'
and i'm general terms he asked me to pay
him. .,,
YOU Packer demanded six hundred dollar,
Tor his services, il upon inquiry, IL proved
that he had rendered any services, you
would submit the matter To Barrentlne!
A. When he made the claim, answered
that had none OF Barrentine's money. lie
had previously stated to me that II might
become necessary to secure the Roou olhces
of Mr.. Packer, who was represented as &C
cupy ing very close relations with Amos, 70
prevail upon him to grant the pardon, aud
|
answered that it he. Packer, procured the
Governors consent, he should be paid.
.. Did YOU not say. when Davis presented
the pardon, signed by himself, ana NJ the
same time SET up claim for Fucker or slN
hundred dollars, in procuring p9rdon
from Ames, did you not think it Singular
that the pardon was signed by The Lieuten-
ant-GovernOr, and not by Ames?
A. That was true, but he said that Ames
author z-I him to sign it; and he went on
to say that when he saw Amrs. he was pre-
pairing 10 90 to The sea-cOast, and had au-
rhpriZrd him to sign IL.
O. Did You not say that you first sent "A
m ,sSase 70 Mr.. Birrrntin". and then
start' q Col Gibbs also to z" after him?
a. Yes sir
. You stated you gave the hoy iustruc-
tiOns not To give the note 20 amy one hut
Blrrentine. and you also requested Colonel
Gibbs To overtake the boy, and get the note
from him?
A. | have never seen that boy from that
day / went to Cooks stables. | said it was
a regro. because l do not know OF any white
person en- ployed there l said to Mr. Cook !:
= Have you a boy who knows where MIR.
Barrentine lives - He said,''yes." "Well,"
said, there's n note, l have to deliver it TO
him." add turned around and went home.
never saw the messenger.
Counsel Spears: If Barrentine objected
to pay you tor that frst pardon, would you
feel that YOU had a claim upon him for that
or any other sum?
A. / did not think | had right to any
compensation from Mr.. Barrentine for ii
pretended pardon; that | knew, as a lawyer,
had no legal value whatever, as the facts
came to my knowledge that the Governor
was not out of the State, and did not mean
to be.
Q. Was that pardon delivered to you by
Mr.. Davis, delivered to Barrentiue, only az
ter Mr.. Packer was to be paid for his SCR
vices--iu other words, did Davis say to you
that the pardon vas to be withheld, il
Packer was not paid 5000?
a. He simply came into the Office and Of
ferred me the pardon, and when | saw how
it was signed, | asked him how it happened
that he signed it, and ne said that Packer
had prevailed upon Ames to give his consent
to his Davis signing it.
Q. Then he gave you the pardon absolute
ly, without conditions?
A. Nothing was said about any conditions.
Senator McCaskill now moved THAI the
Senate, sitting as a court of i'm parchment
do now adjourn until Monday, March 9th.
at 10 30, A. NJ.
The roll was called, and the motion pre-
vailed, by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Albright, Callicott. Ever
EFT, Jewell Gray, Griffin, Johnston, Nc
Caskill. Mcneil, Mcndenhall, Metts. Nor
gan Pratt, Shirley, Smith, Stewart Terry,
Turtle, White-l9.
NAYs-MesSrs. Barry, Carter, Ca.chinge.
Chalmers, FITZGERALD, Foote. Furloug,
Hooker. Oldham, Reynolds, Sims, Stone,
Taylor, Thompson-lI
ABSENT AND NOT VorISG-Messrs. Allen.
Graham, Mcclure, Thornton-4.
Senator Catchines moved that the Senate
do now adjourn. Carried.