The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-03-02

gaze tuc OilCitl COifIuCt Oh Ills EXCel-
lencv, "Adclbert Amcs, Governor of
the State Of Mississippi, and to report
the result of such investigation back
to this House, beg leave to submit the
For thirty-eight days your Com
mittee has been diligently and indus
triously engaged in the discharge of
the duties devolved upon it by the
adoption of the resolution aforesaid.
It has sat from three to five hours
every day, aud has examined fifty-five
witnesses; t~hirty-six Of whom are
classified a. Republicans, aud nine
teen as Democrats. At the begin
ming of the investigation, your Com
mittec directed the Republican mem
Der thereof to inform His Excellcncy.
Governor Ames. of the points on
which witnesses were being examin-
ed. from day to day, touching his
official conduct, and to request him to
send in such witnesses as he might
desire to have summoned and exam
ined in vindication of his official acts,
your Committee states. with pleasure
that this request has been complied
with, and quite a number of witnesses
have been summoned and examined at
the instance of His Exccllency, the
Governor, and in fact, all whose pres
ence before. and examination by your
committee was requested by him,
have been summoned and examined
fully, with the exception of one whose
illness after he was summoned, pre-
vented his attendance. The testimony
taken has not been &c pate, and with
a view Of developing but one side of
the case, but your committee has. in
fairness and justice, eudeavored to
reach a conclusion fully justified by
the proofs on both sides, and Impair
tial az between the people Of the State
and His Excellency the Governor.
Your committee has considered it
question of too much importance to
admit of a hastv or superficial exam
ination. And in pursuing this in
quirv, its members have ~endeavored
to divest themselves of all PARTISAN
feeling and political end personal
prejudice, and to keep steadily III
view the n great object to be stain
ed by this Investigation, that ia, 10
ascertain whether the official III,
duct Of Governor Ames has furnishes
the people of the State with grounuS
which wonld Justify and demand MS
Impeachment. How far your com
mite has succeeded in excluding
from their deliberations all improper
influence, and in basing their report
upon the impregnable foundation OF
truth, as furnished bv'th testimony.
they submit to the Judgment OF tms
House and to the a~rbitrament ofah
impartial public. The conclusion
reached by your committee ha: mol
been sought. or desired, but has been
forced on them byc~ouvictions of duty,
and gladly would they have arrived
Mt a different conclusion. for the
honor of the State and its chief execu-
tive officer if the testimony i'll the
case had justified them in doing so.
Your Committee, therefore, submit
that Adclbcrt Ames. Governor OF the
State of Mississippi, should be inn
peached and removed from official
misconduetin tlie following instances :
L.. Ill fcIuSlIp ~ SaOSuiC litC Io"S
Inv failing to remove w. NJ. Conner,
Sheriff Of Noxubee county from
Office in August. 1875, at which, time
he rs reported t. him az a %defaulter,
holding twenty-five thousand dollars
(S22,00O Of public money and refus-
ing to pay overtho same to the county
of Noxubee.
. 2. In refusing to execute the laws
in the case of Nj. /. Holland. State
Treasurer. who was reported to him
by the Acknowledgement OF the State
in the summer of 1875, to be in office
and in charge Of the State Treasury
without having given bond and secu-
rity, as the law requires.
3. In calling for United States
troops in January, 1875. and causing
A. j. Flanagan, Sheriff of Warren
county, to be elected from his office
by said troops, and another mani in
stalled in his stead, in violation of the
Constitution and laws of the State.
4. In permitting III. Cassedy, Jr.,
Chancellor of the Second District, and
J. b. D~eason, District Attorney of the
Second District, to exchange offices,
in violation OF the Constitution and
laws of the State.
s.. In permitting the convicts in the
Penitcntiary, by contracts approved
by him, to be leased out to his parti-
san friends, Messrs. French & Jobes.
in 1875, without pay of compensation
when the same %convicts were leased
to other parties within a very short
time, by French j. Jobes for a large
sum Of money.
6. In the removal Of w. B. Peyton,
Chancellor of the the 10th District.
7. In the removal of w. A. Dren-
nan, Chancellor ofthe 18th District.
s. In the removal of Thompson
Christian, Chancellor Of the 4th Dis
trict.
8. In the appointments ofC. Cullen,
l.. G.. Abbot, j. ID. Barton and VIM.
Brock, ChauceIlors Of their respective
Districts.
10. In his abuse of powerand vio-
lation of law in directing Peter
Crosby's return to Vicksburg in
December, 1874. and in sustaining
said Crosby in his efforts to take
possession of the office Of Sheriff Of.
Warren county by force of arms,
whereby a conflict between the races
was brought on, and much blood was
shed and many lives were lost.
IL. For his, official acts in arming
the militia Of Kinds county in Sep
TENDER and October, 1875, in time Of
peace, and especially for detailing
Charles Caldwell's company compos-
ed of colorcd men, TO escort arms to
Edwards Depot, said company being
differed in part by, and the rank
and file composed of colored men
known to have participated in the
Clinton riot, and causing them,
armed and defiant, to parade the
streets of Clinton, going to and re-
turning from Edwards Depot, with.
the deliberate intent to create a dis
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