The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-10

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= go morning he came in with the dispatch
o.. and on that day, in the afternoon. MI
Rsrrentine delivered to Gibbs this secona
check. a.. raoe;nt he
took from Dowsing?
A. I do not think he had.
@. Did he have it with him -
r 10 nor think he had; l did not see IL.
He told me he had left the money IN the
hands of Dowsing, to be PAID over TO ach .
er, and he had taken the receipt III oapAi-
| cate. .4a 60 ba ronr
@, Now. the $3.50 you insisted to be your
menev. and not loaned money which you
had previously returned to him!
\. That was my OPINION.
! o. The $3.50 check which he gave 10
i Gibbs, you insisted TO be restoration Oh Tue
check which you had previously returned
1 to him?
A. / do not remember single word about
/ il. but had treated it as substitution
@. How much money did Gibbs offer you
/ on the train?
! A, He never counted it.
! O. Did he not tell you how much
! A He did not--he commenced talking.
! @. And how much did Gibbs give you on
the train?
! A Three hundred and sixteen dollars.
Q. And you told him to keep half OF 1t!
| A. Yes.
@. Did you not ask him how $500 came
! to be half OF 81 $50?
! A. Never.
| o. understand you to say you consider
| ed this check a restoration OF the FORMER
one?
A. Well. sir. say this. that if Governor
Davis had never inUimated to me a wish
| for compensation for Packer, the whole
81 ,25O would have been my money, ana the
reason of taking out $500 was because
| Packer was connected with the matter !,
and | knew Mr.. Barrentlne ala not expect
| to pay more than 81 200.
| O. Did | not understand you to say that
when Davis said Packer wanted 5000 you
| told him you would refer TO Mr.. Barren
J tine?
A. / did; and Mr.. Barrentine came TO my
office the very evening, and the pardon was
examined and the dispatches read; Barren
tine was there, but Davis was not present.
O. When Davis told you that Packer de-
manded 5000 for his services, did it occur
to you that this 5000 was to come out of
your $l,25O fee?
A. | knew Barrentne would not pay it,
Q. When the check was given to Gibbs
YOU regarded the $l,250 check as repre-
sentative of 1850 which once in money
you had?
A. did.
@. Well, it is not possible you expected
to pay Packer $500 out of that 81 ,25O?
A. That restoration was subject to
! L ),
| Packer had eXerted his influence in pro-
curing Ames' consent.
O. Well, when you had $l,250 in hand
the first time you never had heard of
Packer?
A. / had never heard of Packer until
Davis told me it might be necessary to Sc
cure the influence of Packer with Ames,
and in general terms he asked me to pay
him.
@. Did YOU not say to Davis, when he told
YOU Packer demanded six hundred dollars
for his services, if upon inquiry, it proved
that he had rendered any services, you
would submit the matter to Barr"ntne?
A. When he made the claim, | answered
that | had none Of Barrentine's money. He
had previously stated to me that 1T might
become necessary to secure the good offices
of Mr.. Packer, who was represented as &C.
cupyng very close relations with Ames, to
prevail upon him to grant the pardon, and
he asked me if l would pay Packer, and l
answered that if he, Packer, procured the
Governors consent, he should be paid.
Q. Did you not say, when Davis presented
the pardon, signed by himself, and at the
same time set up claim for Packer of six
hundred dollars, in procuring pardon
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
authorized him to sign it; and he went on
to say that when he saw Ames. he was pre-
pairing to go to the sea-coast, and had au-
thorZed him to sign it.
Q. Did you not say that you first sent a
message to Mr.. Barrentine and then
started COL Gibbs also to go after him?
A. Yes, sir.
@. You stated you gave the boy instruc-
lions not to give the note to any one but
Barrentine. aud 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 negro, because do not know of any white
person employed there. | said to Mr.. Cook
:. Have you boy who knows where Mr..
Barrentine lives?" He dyes 'Well,n |
said, "here's note, 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 first pardon, would YOU
feel thab you bad a claim upon him for that
or any other sum?
A, did not think had right to anv
compensation from Mr.. Barrentine for a
pretended pardon; that / knew, as 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. i
y. Was that pardon delivered to YOU by
MI. Davis, delivered TO Barrentine, ONLY af
ter Mr.. Packer was to be paid for his ser
vices--in other words, did Davis say to YOU
that the pardon was to be withheld if
Packer was not paid 5000?
a. He simply came into the office and Of
ierred me the pardon, and when | saw how
lt was signed, asked him how it happened
that he signed it, and he 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?
Adjoining was said about any conditions.
senator McCaskill now moved thar the
senate, sitting as court of i'm peachment