The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-02-07
70 PACK the SUPREME COURT.

70 PACK the SUPREME couaT.
Drmo~rnss Proposes 60 fmpesch Two Re-
publican Judges and Put ID mocrsts In
Their Places, which Would insaro .
Fsvorsbae D~cisson ON the Yranchis~
mend msut.
Charlotte Observer, FEB 2nd-
In these days Of loose talk and
loose writing on subjects Involving
IL has not been surpris-
log TO hear and 10 read . good de al
about the Impeachment OF the late
Chief Justice Fsircioth and Asso
Justices Punches and Doug
las, Of the Supreme Court OF the
State. IL Ia surprising, However,
to see the matter take definite
shape In . resolution Offered In the
lower house OF the Legislator.
Thursday for the i'm parchment oil
judges Furches and Dougias,
Judge Faircioth having passed be-
yond the jurisdiction Of earthly
courts. The proceeding 10 based
upon the fact that the last Legisla-
ture enacted that the State should
not pay any compensation TO any
persons claiming the same for ser
vices rendered concerning the shell
fish industry except such service
be rendered under an act passed
at that session of the Legislature
Theophilus White, shell fish com
missioner, had claim against the
State FOR 1881 Is. The Auditor d ev
his warrant In Whites favor for thu
amount but the Treasurer held II
up under the act Of the Legislature
above referred to. The suprem t
Court Issued q mandamus upoI
Treasurer Worth to compel him t.
pay the claim justices Clark ant
Montgomery dissenting. We be
lieve, from this proceeding-ant
the Treasurer respected the man
date OF the court and honored tn
warrant. Wherefore 1t Is propose
to impeach the living members o
the court who consented to tn
mandamus.
We do not know whether or no
the court had constitutional au
thority to issue the mandam us
We do know, however, with q reas
enable degree of certainty, that tn
Justices issuing 1t believed 1t had
and we do know as q matter of at
solute certainty that an lmpeach
ment proceeding is q very import
ant one, not to be entered upon I'm
sdvisedly. but soberly, reverentl
and in the fear of God. There ha
been but one impeachment of
public official in North Carolin
since the civil war, and 80 far q
! can be now recalled this Is the onl
one In the history Of the State.
1t is not to be doubted that til
me mbers of this Legislature wi
think a long time before enterin
upon the step which they are invite
to take by Mr.. Craig, of Buncomb
, There has been in this Lsgislatul
more or less brow-beating Of tt
handful of Republicans in it, but tt
majority of it's members will nc
D without overwhelming reasons, s
into an impeachment proceedin
which q great many people, 9th
than Republicans, will regard as 6
: act of persecution. Mr.. Vost,
: Missouri, in his foe speech in Il
q Senate of the United Stats la
week in opposition to the ship subs
dy bill, described the national Il
publican party as drank with pow
and running into all manner of Q;
cesses. Let not this be charged u
s on the Democratic party of Nor
Carolina, and let it not think, ev'
though the negro is disfranchlse
+. that it is so firmly entrenched
: power that it can run to any sort
q partisan excuses and still be 50
t fro N dislodgement. The history
i the past six years should teach al
: one that the white people of th
b State are not as much welded
Q party names as they once were n
i altogether as immovable as was fe
9 merly imagined; but that they a
b rather easily moved upon and tn
q when they start in particular {
n rection they move with q power
resistible. TIE election years
= grace 1894, 1896, 1898 and 1900, {
= ted. Softly