PARDONS IN IMPEACHMENT CASES

A year ago, Governor Miriam Ferguson, of Texas, approved an act of the legislature of that state, the gist of which reads as follows: "That every person against whom any judgment of conviction has heretofore been rendered by the Senate of the State of Texas in any impeachment case, shall be and is hereby granted a full and unconditional release of any and all acts and offenses of which he was so convicted by said Senate of the State of Texas, upon any charge or proceedings of impeachment. "That any and all penalties or punishment inflicted by or resulting from any such judgment heretofore rendered by the State of Texas, in any such impeachment case, including any, disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under said State, shall be, and the same is hereby fully cancelled, remitted, released and discharged."