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...Texas, where they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...
...hornet's nest around Governess Ferguson and her husband "Jim." It was understood that Jim had picked the members of the Highway Commission, and he was known to have attended their meetings. So it was felt he should share the blame with them. Last week, with talk of impeachment in the air, two of the three Highway Commissioners resigned. So they cannot be impeached; neither can the Governess' husband, because he holds no office. The only persons left to impeach were the remaining Highway Commissioner and the Governess...
...Problem. But for what could the Governess be impeached? No evidence or charge had been made public that the Governess or her husband had received or were to receive any of the road company's excessive profits. As the Legislators talked it over last week, they were not sure that they wanted to impeach Mrs. Ferguson, but if they could not "clean up" the highway situation in any other way, they thought they might impeach her for "incompetence" or "negligence...
Meanwhile, Congress undertook to impeach President Johnson, the principal charge being violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The impeachment proceedings failed, largely because there was a loophole in the wording of the Act. Shortly after, Stanton resigned...
...wants Nixon impeached," Bond assured the meeting, "and by God, we'll impeach...