Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1879, Page 1

“VOLUME XXX1X Sll;l( 5+ SOUEIC I WSO, fecial Bargain 5 NUMBERS OF E@U GUINET'S BLACK DRESS RROTHERS. LKS! Have now on Sale 50 PIECES Each of three numbers of the ‘sbove peerless Black Silks, at $1.50 per yard, $1.75 per yard, $2.00 per yard. Our prices in December last for these goods were $1.85, $2.10, and $2.50 per yard. . Ladies desirous of securing s good bargain should aveil themselves of this opportunily. We solicit examination *and invite comparison. JUST RECEIVED, H0 Titess of Black Brocades At $1.00 a yard. Algo, full lines of Black and Colored WATERED SILKS, SATIN STRIPE. ORDERS BY MAIL Witk have our immediate and care- fulaltention. By sending for sani- ples, goods can be purchased equally as well as by coming to the city. Upon examination, if gonds arc not satisfactory, they can be returned andmoney cheerfully refunded. 121 & 123 State-st. Eetled etce uth ) ock 4, I a Which i s “Hiace i Vieorwnes of bldders, Sor tha traisportation Government stores durlug the llltn.l )cnr July 1, IU'ID. snd endiug June Su, 1840, wmntnflnr ertae followti routes Imeh. o ‘ PIZOFOSALS, r Proposals for anon ’l'ransporlaliou. Oryica Cuter Ot QUARTENASTRR, i l'anr Lravexworen, Kan., March 1, 1470, roposal Vigas, ) termiaus of tha Atchiso N Il lrosd). to Fort Hiles, ) 8 No, 8, o e iSiion ‘Lo foutl 1 unu- Luweil Arlzona, Paute Ko, mmmu- mnnmlr xlco (or eboiekn, % CatinFo wili ba rece]vuv.l at title on ‘Tuesda, oy Will b aponed 1a by egas, Nuw Nnxiw (ur southern ter- ¢ka & Sauta Fo Rall- AMexico (or southern Sk e & Nchon, Tope W l'ru.ou. Arizon 7.~ Klamoes, Colorado, 16 Fort Lewls, Col- & Ban's Fo o, o dEuvernmnt reseryos Lhe right to rejeot any or 2 h [ e atar of Now Mexf Dm! ik Ao blank fo ! naitions mnf‘-m’f‘“ e Fiaf tha proposale mllullnu T mlll:bxml-xé. 7 Qulr\ermulcr‘ 1co, at Santa Fo, <1t Ubited Blates Army, Y tnumm of E‘k fieney v ““hniw Sot ’l" u L Brome s houtls for each mnh should be nlucod 0 sera lalily_ Indorged, ** Pro u tloa o Huuta No! hpan) rie Arat OUEAN SCEAMSHITS, fil‘A’l‘E ‘hirdest. LINE (ul, I,nluwndur'ry, Maren 8 From Sow York (o Bolithamplol firat gabin, New York and Glaszow. “’“wlut S8rch H,3 pus | HOLEY LA, “Efl"- um hh, ;I)uu el initau i uuu.\slslA. K P L1F*N1A, March t: G T Lcullreml:e rates, la. s, 00 Washington-st, 1003 secull .l?wmmn must be In readiness to begin zervice by Ure of contracts -howlnr lll red niust Tiesa elrc roposals can Du_outained by ar ig o Chief Quariormaster posals for Wagon sud addressed 1o, lhn JUPUS BAXTON, Genoral, Brovet nrxmmx-x}en- ey, Thiraday. Narch 13 rdiig to sccominodation, 0. Becond Cabin, 840} Fo- Dwest rates, WLY & GO Awents, YAMES WARKACK, Gonerat Heasr 4 Washiugton« North German Lloyd, Y.u Company il asil evesy Satur- oo . Hioboken, ecrao llv.‘}(ell S0 &l poinid i Sud hamsazo reet, & March 22, & p WHITE STAR LINE, lu\urkmfld‘l’nlud Statey auy Yy ek 4dd Livers ALVii L um{."",’,, ~— A Ureat LAGENG) Ureat [mu!n aud Irelund, OUN. ""fl three L owest Prico, t Compay, ViR lvnl n;lt i it Ny, k" The i S e e Nehve coniyyyeer a Nty ey, o8 Uagg Orde w }z‘wie. mnu- l.lly of K Imlu o Utinols. e Nov I‘IUC' oTIcH. 78, 0 (e ey ol PHWAIm A} 'I'L B nn\xu. vlwmy of the Kankekee Compsny, t Court uf Wi e (,n‘vlfl’ ‘Trumu. MAIL STEAMERS m et 25,10 8 Ram Ttoyal Matl letun Passags apply to Come Qen'l Wostern Agent, ARD MATIY, LINE,. ¢4 a week toand from Dritish Ty, WATER-POWE CITY khnumu ¥it w.rum. T g R AR NINETEENTH ° ANNUAL BTATEMENT OF TIR TABLE | &2 Life-Assuranco Society of the U, §,, HENRY B. HYDE, President, For the Year Euding December 31, 1878 : Axoux 1473, ..J:fl“‘n.wl.&'l Lems i aud spurantiation tomeet any deprecta- 100 TROLIEr BRICIEL s eressaeas sensen INcOMK. Premfums...... laterest nnd Ren 2,087,011.23 2,654, 087.07 84,2740 13 Total I'ald Pollcy-iloldors..84,035, 17 143 Dlvldrml un Clvlh\l. pas Axench Commisstous, state, t.‘mmu' TOTAL DISDURSKMENTS,. Nzr Casit AsaxTs, Dec, 31, 1878.....! ASSETS, “nndl and 3 \'fli!rl oo ¢..’|&J7| 694,03 R AR gt ot00 Unucd ‘§taten Blocka . 638, e Stocks, City Smckl. and_Stocka e horaey by 1ho Laws ot 1o State ot Now Yol 6,201,078.10 nred { nanid Siaio inlcipal Bondsand Stocksnuthors Tow Y tha Lansof ‘the Biaio of New i £28, 000,00 LR 51 CON14.83 NTH1.58 'I JN. Market valuo of Stocks nnd Tlonds nmm'm o cosl. 129, 700,41 Interest and i 474,488.43 51,416,00 DetaFred P Tatal Auscts, Dec. 31, 1878..836,45: amLTEs. nclading legn for relnsiranco of sl ex- TSR Dolicicn - sves Total Undivided Snrplus. ur hich belongs (as comnu:edl 4 10 genaral class of Whio Belanics (a8 coi cles in Tonting class, 28,660,208.00 & 6,803,824.80 Toll- 8,741,902.38 % 162,402.00 Risks Assumed In 1878, 0,115 Palicles, Ausuring $21.440.213.00. From the undivided IIIrNIIl. rrvarflonlry dividends will he declared avallable on lement of next aunual prrmlum tonartlelpating Pflll cler. ey |ul-' fon of thio palicles utstanding hos been e on the Amerjcan Expgrienca 'l ey e legal tEandard of o BEato of New York. o o W, PHILLIPS, J. G. VAN CISE, }AcToantzs, We, the unders) I’. avo in person carefully ex- amined the accounts, and counted and x'!nmlm'xl in da- tall, tho nascts of tho Socluty, and certlfy that the Torégolog Miataniont thereof Is correct. BraniNaton F. Raxvotri, Jawes M, ifhucen, Teviv'h, Traner, a A, Ciunise, T BLIGR, nmm mmm jitoe 1 tha Board of Diveetars, appotnted Oct. 10 examine tho asscls and accounts ot 0o clobe of th year: JAMES W, ALEXANDER, v‘nl‘-l’l‘el‘ld‘.ulll' BAMUEL BORROWE, Nccrotary. Medical Rzaminera: E.W. LAMDBERT, M. D, EDWARD CURTIS, 3. D, E. W. 8cort, Superintendent of Agenclcs, Dranch Opiga ‘108 Dearliornest., Chicngo. . W. N. CRAINE, Ganeral Manager for hill; B Nchrukn..mnfilrakfln'u. i, T» T. WATSON, Cashier, , 1. Caw General Agents 35 K‘l “L!! g i In addition to our large and beautitul line of “HOMESPUNS” Advertised last weok, and pronouncad by excolient uldz!lIlmnumluumnv.nnd Leat kool ever oftercil for 10 monoy, we ahiall open to-dny pward of 50 NEW AND VERY DESIRATLE BTYLES 0 AND FANCY SUITINGS IN CASSINMERIES, CHEVIOTS, MELTOXS, and DIAGONALS, From which we will MARE T0 ORDER the most ele- untly cut, made, and trimmed Busmess or l)ress Suits $25. $25 $25. EXAMINATION RESP"CTFULLY INVITED, GATZERT Popular - Tailoring Efouse, 179-181-183 CLARK-ST,, OPEN TILL u P, 31, CORNER llDNTlU Siflln'l‘&- SHIRTS Made to order irom ihe heaviest and finest fabries in use, at the Iowest possis ble prices. WORIKMA N« SHIPF TIHE BEST. A fit guarantecd or money res funded., ELDREDGE & WOODBRIDGE, 55 Washington-st. LETTER COPYING 500K, THE, STYLOGRAPHIG {HTTRlCOPYING BOOK. Ko fak. No ater Used, ¥orsalu by all stationsrs aud (s i Xlfl‘“lfil’l. J. 8. MeDONALD & L0., Blnnx Book Makers. 158 & 160 Clark.st. IIATIL GOOLS, LADIES, STAFFORD BRAID WILL QUTWEAR ANY OTHER, EL A Ak kb GRAPIL wil bo rower (il woe uulo B, 83 aud nan; pire mu~n.. Uver Mirabuy Musio Hall, TUESDAY, IHIY I’IOOD'O. Ete. GCGREAT Enormous Sacrifices in Every Department. BLAGK SILKS Redueed from $6.00 {o $4.75 a yard, Reduced from 10 00 to $4.00 a yard, Reduced from $4.50 to $3.50 a yard, Reduced from $3.50 Lo $2.75 a yard, Reduced from $2.50 1o 1\‘2 00 a yard, Reduced from $2.25 to $1.90 a yard, BLAGK CASHAERES Reduced from $1.35 fo 11.10 a yard, Reduced from $1.25 to $1.00 a yard, Redueed from $1.00 fo Sie a yavd, Reduced from 90c to 70 a yard, Our entire stock of Dress Goods marked to less than 50c on the dollar. Housekesping Goods, LINEN DAMASKS Redueed from $1.50 to $1.25 a yard, Reduced from $1.25 to $1.05 a yard, Reduced from $1.12} to 874 a yard, Reduced from $1.00 {0 756 a yard, NAPKINS - Redueed from $1.50 to $1.25 a dozen, Redueed from $1.75 1o $1.50 o dozen, Tedueed from $2.25 to $1.75 Redueed from $2.60 to § Reduced from $3.25 to $2.65 a dozon Bargams in Laces, Hos- iery, Underwear, Gloves, Hdkfs., &e. W, A, STHPSON & 0, 113 & 115 Statest. " ART STUDIO AN AND GA Veondls SOAARS OABINT'T I’OIITRAII‘9 in any destred.style, Elegant and Superior to any produced elsewhere in the clty, at the uniforn price of $6 PLR DOZEN, Card Photos, EXIRA FINE, only $3 per dozen. blttmaa by appohmncnl. [V L‘II T L D R EN pholoyraplw:l instantaneously. Brands Sludiss SUGAR.CURED ITANMS, SUGAR-CURED HAMS, BREAKFAST BACON, BACON SHOULDERS, PORK, LARD, BEEF, And SAUSAGE Of all kinds, at wholasole and retail, at our Packing House, Halstod-at. Bridgo, ono blook south of ‘'wenty.uecond-st. UNDERWOOD & 0O. OITICIANS, DIANANNE, OFTICIAN, Tribnus Hullding, l"fl.fl llclulul\mwull siglis ot 4 cltien, “Dpera hhd Feld Glbasss 'fosopen diersr Sebucs, Unrometers, 4. TO ILENT, From Ma, l LUMUB" \Al“? 3.) feel |m river, 120 feet on sep, wi L0 1 prediser, ner Fitthoay. o huflads o ll ENI‘)VAI.I. BENBAVEN'S aol Lu BEN Muty, remgvod from s e w‘u;donfi' Wl Sn¥ and, Foid rirpolutod llU'iINl“hH u.uxna. ASSAYS LD wnd K uno e st Muillan careful) wfloll wnd ll-‘ 5 il i 6) V*Hnrll o, MARCIHI 4. EXONERATED. Report of the Knott Com- mittee on the Blodgett Investigation. The Voluminous Testimony Reviewed at Great Length, Hesing’s Story Loses Weight from Its Apparent Prejudice And Well-Known Bitter Animosity Towards the Awccused. A Verdict of 'Full Acquittal Rendered ‘on ‘All the Charges, Some of Judge Blodgett's Acts May Have Shown Error of Judgment; But Are Not ol; Such Character as to Warrant Impeach- ments I Bangs’ and Hibbard’s Adminis- a dozen,” 62.00°a- dozen, tration Only Incidentally Referred To. &pectal Dirvateh fo Tha Tribune. Wasumaroy, D. C. March 8.—The circum- stances connected with the Blodrett report arc pecullar. The resolution with which it con- cludes was signed by allithe members of the Commitice. Dut one, at least, of the Republic- on members (£'rye, of Malne) says he never saw or heard the contents of ugo report, and that it was never read to the full Committee. Judge Lapham, however, of ‘the Bub-Commlttca. ovl- dently approved the veport, for ho aafd to-night that ft was mo stronger thau tho ovidencd warranted. Judge Eln:}g:n’n friends here havo been greatly . distrcssed obout it, and. bave been endeavoring to secure a . modification of . the severe censure. They wero intormed this moraing by ono of the Democratic members of the Sub-Committee of thenature of the report. Mr, Kuott hlmacif char- ucterized the report as'very mild. Mr, Frye ueve notice 'privately that, {f Knott should at- tempt to present it aa the unanimous views of thie Committee, he shonld object, It is evident that the Democratic majority of the Comunitteo intended to forco the adoption of the report ot all bozards. The readers moy fudgo from the text of the report {tself hether it s the com- pleto vindication of Juduu modacu whlch is +Ariends hnd promlsed. 4 b A ruonurvrn?pm. -Up to halt-past 19 thia’ Axaing Proctor Knott had nob beeir ablo to' un%cnt the Blodzot t report to the House, Hiinuls nembers have obtalned permission from Proctor Knott to read the report this evenlng. Republican members of the Cowmittce are very indignant at the woy in which 1t is shaped, 03 it wakes them appear to have approved of the ontiro roport, whereas the truth is, they only signed the resolutlon recommend- ingg thint the subject bo tabled. The resolution, however, has been ottached to the report us the tinal page with the introductory words: We, therefore, the Nepnblican membera whoes names aro slgned to tho resolution, had not read tho report until this ovening. It was never rend in committee, and the Re- publicans say thut, If Knott prescnts it as the report of the Committee, they shall formally enter theirprotest fn the House, THE REPORT, Spectal Dispatch (0 The Tribune. Wamsinxaron, ), C., March 3, --Tue Commiiteo on the Judiclary having wade the Investigation au- thorizea by the resolution ndopted Ly the House of Representatives Jan. 7, 1870, requiring them to inquire Intn the official conduct of tho Hon, Henry W. Blodgott, United States District Juuge for tho Nortbern District of fllinols, ana report what action, if any, the Ilouse should tako thereln, would respectfully report that, during the taking of tho testtmony herewlth submitted, Judge Blodgett, and Measrs, Cooper, Knickerbocker, and Sheldon, upon whose momorial the resolution citod above was introanced and adopted, were present In pere #on and with counsel. Both partics were pormitted to introduce ovidouce and testimony; the most 1lberal Jatitudo was allowed to cach on the exam- ination of witnesses, tothe end that every fact bearing directly or indiroctly upon the subject un- der consideration mivht be clearly ascertained, in order to facliitato the investigation as much as poa- sible. Howuver, to ennble the CommiLtee to con- fine the testimony within reasonablo limits, and prevent it ta tho Housa in something like a syu- tematlc form, the memoriallats wero requestod to present these charzes aud speclications in writing, which was accordingly done, and coples thercof delivered to Judge Ilodgett, with the request that ho would flle A written answar thercto if such answer ahould be deemod by him neceasary or de. sfrable, Thesubstance of the first cliargo thus exhiblted was that Judgo Dlodgett had entured into A IMBHOKPST CONBPIRACY to defrand the creditors of the Germania Inanr- snco Company, & corporation whose estato was then pending {n bankruptcy beforo it as Disteict Judge for tho Northern District of inols, ani that by means of cettain ordors, sccretly and cor- ruptly mado by kil av such Judge iu furthorance of such unlawful scheme, the same was consum- mated and the creditors of the bankrupt dofraud- el out of a enin of money amounting to more than $15,000. It appears from the evidence in rolation to this cbarge that in tho yearda 1873 -and 1874 the estato of the Oermsnls Insurance Com- pany was pending in bankruptcy before Judgze Blodgett; that nmong the asvets in tho hands of tho Asalgnee, Wiilam Vocke, thero wore sover- al notos which had veen ¢xecated by stockholders of the Company for stock hold by them respactivo- 1y, aud among them two un oae A, C, Hlesiny, amounting, principal snd interest, to noar ths sum of 820,000, which were secured by a pledge of 170 uhares, of $100 cach, of thy stock of anothor cor- poration known as the Zilinole Stauts:Zeltung Cowmpony; that thescaeveralatockholders were aleo policy-holders in the Gicrmanla Insuranco Com. vany, who fusisted (hat thoy ind sutforcd losses covered by thelr rospoctive pulicies, and thole pol- 1clos SILOULD 1N SET OFF againat thele atock notes In the bank of tho As- signeo; that suits were instituted by the Assignea agalnet them In that District Court for the North- ern Diatrict of Illinols, In two of which, thoso of Moyer and Jaezer, in which the question of set-off was made, and judgnent rendured in favor of the Asalgnee; that these cases wero carried to tho Sue preme Court ot the United States, whereupon u supulation was entered fnto by Mr. Vocke, tho Avsiznde, and the remalning stock-debtors, among whom was A, C, ileslng, that, if the judgmoent which had beon rendercd thercln should b af- firmed, the Assignee Inight take Judement fnst them immediately for the amount of their respective notes; that the judgments were “afiirmed, and the Amlguoe on the :d of Januvary, 1874, immedlately upon. receiving ofiictal notidcation of that fact, madu an urgent do- waud upon other parties to Kive the watter thelr 187—TWELVE PAGES, Ho tricd'sévernl times, but falled | 10 take Springer from the floar. .Sume of the earifeat attentlon, and cali at his ofiicota redeem thelr notes and avold judgment, and that all the vartics uxcept A, C. Hesing soon after did so. It appears, worenver, that notwithstanding this peremptory demand, and Mr. Healng's failure to comply with it, the Aspigneo took no etepto en- forca 1t, although .urged by his connsel to take Judgment against [lesingnnder the stipulation,and compel him-to pay tho -amount of his notes ns the others had done, but - that on the Tth of April, 1874, gver thres months after tho Judgments referred to above hind hoen afirmed, and hisright to take judrment against llesing onder the stipulation becune nbsolute, and over two months after ho had given nohcn that hoe wonld proceed to duo 8o, the Assignee appliad to Judge Dlodzett In Chambora for instructions as to what bie should do ju the matter, whercupon TNE IOLLOWING ORDER, which had been previously prepared by his own taw pattner, Gen, Leake, who had been employed s counsal by llesing, was presented to the Judge, wha indorsed ft, ' Enter. 1. W, D.," andwhich wan subscquently cutered of record in tho matter of tha Germania Insurance Company, bankrapt: **I'e Assiznea having this day made applieation for instructions os to the matter of the claims of said Compuny againat A, C, Hesing, and the Court having fully consldered the same, does hereby or- der and direct that tho eaid Assignes do offer the notes and {indebtodness of thosald Heaing, together with the atock of ibe Jifinois Staats-Zeitung Com- vany deponited to sccure the eame, at private rale, to those dealinz in such securities in tho City of Chlcago, and to seil the same to the person making the higheat nnd best bid thercfor in cash, tirat re- portlust the amount of such bids to this Conrt, and e will not deliver such notes and :ullnlemln until such eale ahall be confirmed by this Cou 1L apoears alzo that at tho ssmo time Mr, Vacke, the Assipnec, prerented a petition to Judge Blod- fett aeking permivsion to nell & number of other notes, collaterals, nnd judzinents which were among the asscts of the Germanla Insurance Com- pany, and rezarded by him an deaperate, In which, however, 110 reference was made to the clalm ngainst 1Mealug, and askinz the Court to prescribe the mode in which they should be sold, npon which the Judge made the folluwing indorse- ment: ** fnter order that Asslice eell the withe in-nomed clatms at public auction; notices ten days in Journal ond Inter-Ocean, 1. W, I." Which arder was subacguently enteted of record. It appears, morcover, that a minute of the last mentioned order was entered with the uroceedings of that dsy's bualness on page 23 of the Clark's minute-book. whilo a inluute of the oue first men- tioned apnears on page 24, facing page 25, under the heading, **Tuce April 7, contlnned,” It also appears that the Jaw reporters of the dally newspapers in Chicago were In the habit of CONSULFING TIIS MINUTE-BOOK every evening after the business hours of the conrt, and of publishinga report of the varlous orders appeariug therein in their respective jour- nals the following morning. In additiun to this, it uppears that there was pub- lished ot that time in tho City of Chilago a paper called the Chicago Wally Law Dullelin, dovoted exclusively to the daily publication of the varlous orders eatured and other pracecdings had (n nll cottets of record, Htatu and Federal, in that city, togothier with blils of sale, . chattel mortgages, etc., recorded, and that the compller of that publication was not only in the habit of examiofug the minute-book referred to above twice euch diy, ut noon and abont 5 o'clock p. m.. and of publlshing the vorlous orders there- in found fn tho next day's leauc, but he was also in the habdit of looking back through the proceedings ‘of the provious days in order to be aure that ho had overlaoked or omitted nothing that had been done; yot, while cachof the dally newspavers as wall as tho Lww Bulletin contalued an . order direct- Jug tho Assignco of the Germanls Insurance Company td sell the ‘‘desperale’ assots in bis hanae ot public auction, there was no notice, or intentlon whatever In any of them that an order .iand been made for the Asalgnos to solicit. bida for “the’ Mesing hotes ‘ana the Sfaate-Zeitung stock pledged t0 vequre tha samo at private, sale, 1t forthermore appoars that M:. Vockr, tln As. ‘slgnee,’ ... ADDRESSED A CIRCULAR wn-zn. dated on thoe ramo doy on which the order was made, ta varlous partles, informing them that ho had been ordered by the Court to acll at privato salo two notes, une for $10,000, datea Sept. 16, 1800, and the othier for 85,000, dated Jan. 30, 1870, both executed by A.C.Uesinz, dus on demand, and boar- ing intercat nt tho nlu of 10 por cont per annum, sccared by the pledge of 170 shares of stock in the Htinols Staate-Zellung Company, and soliciting bids for the notes and collaterald. ‘The evidence ehuws, however, that tho fitinols Staats-Zetung Company had paid dividends ou its stock of por centIn Aprll, 1872, and O per cent additional in July of the rame year, 15 per cent in Jan- ary, 1873, and 20 per cent fu January, 1874, and that Mr, Vocke was a atocknolder in the Compauy, and drew his dividends as such ui tho timu stated; yet no allusion was made ln his circular letier to the dividends pald by the Compuny as sfecting the wvalue of the atock he proposed to sell. “t furlher nppests that the Assignce recloved re- plies to hiw circular letter from L. J. Gage, Cashier of the First Natioual Bank, who declined to make a Dbid, on the giound that his hank never advanced upon the stack of close corporations, such stock belng penerally fonnd ~unsalahle in the open market; from George Schncider, Uashier of the National Bauk of Hlinols, who alko declined to Lid, on tho grounds uf lesing's embarcassments, the notes buing past due, and a wunt of ncqualntance with the valite of the collaterals from . E, Guodéll, President of tho Fourth Natlonal bank, who da- clined to bid on the eronnd that the ok bad ns much of Mr, Ifesing's puper as it cared to hold, that past-duc paper wax 1 hard thing to sell, and, upon inquiry outshle, he THOUGNT 80 PER CENT on the faco of the nutes was the best price that could be had for them; from W, ¥. Coolbaugh, Proaldent of the Unton Natlonul Dank, whu uldo declined to bld, but gava it as his opinfon that a salo for 50 cents on the dollar wusld be & good and Judicions unes from Haied & Bradloy, loan and teal estato agents, who dil not care to buy the nates of Mr. Hesing at uny prico; from Folsenthal & Kozminsky, bankers, who declined 1o bid, be. cause thoy kuow notbing of tho valua of the stock, nnd had no meaus of lu- forming themselven upen that point to their sathefaction; from Adulph Loeb, bruker, who declined 1o Lid, on tho ground thut Le never houglt overduo paver, but stated that, If he did buy such vaper, ho would not want to pay over 84,000 for the notea and securitiva offercd; FIOM JACOU RENS, who offered $1,500, adding that he knew Mr. Ueslug was greatly embarraased by having indorsed o larze amount of paper for the bankrupt Garden Cly Manufacturing and Supply Compaay, and thut it would be & long time before he would be fn o condition to mecet his labilitice; frum Wilitin Bisson, who offered §,750 for the notos and stock; from J. M. Witherell, wuo offercd $4,500; from Nenry Greenconuw, who, afice atat- Ing that ho connldered the notes and stock aw very undestrable property, offered $5,000 for an nbso- lntn tranafer of the notes and stock: from H, Iflorsbeim, who declined to bid. Oa the ith of April the Assleneo snbmiited to Judge Blodeett bls report, accumpanled vy the woveral lotters abave reforred to, upon which the Judge made THH POLLOWING INDOIRSEMENT: ** Enter order that notes and svenritios be sold for §5,000, unless ubjections are filed by Monduy morning, H. W, IL* The report thus indorsed was tied at 3 v, m. April 10, and the Judg: wemoraydum, quoted above, entered on pago 56 of the Clerk's minute-book, sll the other orders made during tha day betng noted on page 37, aud 1o notlce or slluslou to the order appeared in any of the duily newapapers or the Daily Law Rulistin the next morning, although tho law roporters HAD MAVE TUELL CUSTOMALY EXAMINATION the proceding evening, and found all the other pro- ceedinge bad duniug the day. On the follawlng Monday, April 10, tho salo of tho llesing notew aud stuck to Henry Grecnobaum for 85,000 became aveotute, and on the next morniug, for tho frat time, the fact that such a sale had been ordered or ovew contemplated found His way into tho public urints, On tho 22d tho facts of thu sale werw 0. ported by tho Asslgnuo to the creditore’ meeting, which gave rivo to great dissatiafsction among the croditors, and a proposition was mado to have the proper stopa taken to hiave {L vacated, r BUT MESSIS, PLORSUEIN, WHTHUKELL, AND UP- y who wero among tho largest creditors, haviug voted agalust it, the motion was lpst. Itoppears from the testimony of Mesars, Viorshelw and ' " notes there may be wome contearicty of opinios Wetherell, however, that there was an agreement or understanding betweon them and Mr. Unson npon the ono ‘slde, and Mr, Hesinz on the niher, that, If they would permit him to got his notes and, #tock at leas than their ree! valne, he would TAY THEM THE DIFFERENCE between tho dividends they might receive, 1f his notes and ftock were sold at their full value, ana that he did pay to Flotsheim the sum of $2,500, which, in pursuance of tkat arrangement, ho di- vided with Witherell and Upsun sbout in propore tion to their respective clatma, and {t “was evidently in consequence of that understanding not only that they wrote the letters in reoly to Mr. Vocke's circular, which aro roferred to above, buat voted ugalnat the provosition to have the same set azide, Tt {s furthermore evident, from the tes. timony or (ireenchaum himaclf, that hie wrote the leetter to Vocke making the bid of $5,000 at the lrl;;mnceor Hesing, and with tho underatanding that NESING 8IOULD HAVE THE NOTRS . and stock for precisely what Greencbaum should have to pay fortnem, and that he delivered the notes to Iealng, and retainod the atock until the $3,000 ndvanced by him was refonded. In a word, that Ilesing was tho real purchascr, and Greenebaumn morely his instrument. As totho facts thus far stated thero can be neither doubt nordispute, but asto the real value of tho stock hypothecated by sr. ilesingas sccurity for Lis 1t §s true that the flinois Staale-Zellung Compa waan close corporation, and that the amount of itndividends might have depended to a great exe tent upun the tntegrity of thoe.who controlled the niajority of tho atock; yet, when 1t i considered that the capital stock of this corporation was at that tine, a8 the cvidence shows, but $175,000; that It owned a lot of ground worth then $K0,000, inde- pendent of-the bulldiug and machinery thareon, costing, according to the testimony of Mr, Iler- mann Raster, $225,000, incumbered by a mortgage of only 875,000, bosides the good-will of a nowae. paper with the Jargest circulation of any paper published In the German language west of the Allee gheny Mountains, with a franchise iu the Asno- ciated Press worth 825,000 or more; that thu float. ing debt of the Company was not over $100,000, while fta mnet earnings for tho year 1872 were, according to the ‘evidence of Mr. Platach, the Secrotary, $85, 082,21, and for the year 1873, €00,2560,08; that tha dividends declared were in April, 1872, 25 per cent; January, 187, 15 per cent, and January, 1873, 20 per cent, and espe- cially when it la remumbered that the 170 shares in queation belonged to & eerice, wihen the whole ceapltal stock was only 810,000 or $106,000. and really represcnted 263 of the 700 ahares of capital stock, and that Mesing actually recefved $7,600 in dividcnds on the shares ln 1872, $5.380 In 187, and aboat $2,000 for tho hall-year ending July ), 1874, it will not be diflicult to conciude that Mr. Medill, Mr. Patterson, Gov. Bross, Mr. Vocke, -and others were correct 1n euppusing 1t worth par, aad perhaps that Mr. Rnater was NOT PAR OUF OF THE WAY when he estimated {tat S160. 1t le trie that what these 170 shares of stock would have sold for had a full and a fair public advertiaement’ been made of all the facts showing their value, or even bLad tho creditors of the bankrapt known thatthey wera to ba sold, can only ‘be a matter of conjecture. Yot it Is manifest from the evidence that their salo at only 85,000 was a rninonn sacri- fico, to say nothing of abaudoning the chances ol realizing something on the notes incase the collat- erals should fail to bring the full amount, nearly §20,000 due thereon. The scheme by which that aacrifice was offccted, and which can verbaps be Imperfectly discerned in the facta already stated, Mr. A. C. Hesing underiakes in his testimony more fully to disclose, It mav not be out of placo to promlise here, however, tnat Mr,- lesing had long been among the most influential and entue- prising German clilzens of Chicoku, a man of strong will and more than ordinary capacity, who had to some extent | . DROUGHT MIL. VUCKE UNDER OBLIGATIONS 0, : o HDE ¥ hy certaln acts of personal Lln!v\nn. % n. 1 evident that, after the judgments In the cases of Meyer and Jeager had beev aBlrined by the ‘Suprowme Court, Mr. Vocke's counsel.. Mr. Pence, was' ap- orohensive that Hesing was endeavoriug to lnfii- enco Vocke to favor bim in some way with rezard to tho clalm he helt azainet hiw, or, as Mr, Pence himsclf cxpresses it, was teglog **to place his fin.. menso thumb npon him," and that Vocke felt o *little \venk kneed"” and wanted o **lttle back- ing up. " AMr. Heslng testifies subdstantially that after the Judgments werc afiirmod by the Supreme Court he hnd froquent conversativns with Mr. Vocke as to the beat way fur him to pet tho stack back, and that Vocke Onally adviacd Nim to oo Judge Blodgett In person. which he conclnded (o do; that ke visited the Judge in his rooms, and told him that when he left for Burope in 1870 be bad an incomo of §10.000 or §40, KK n year, and no debts: that everythine ho posvesacd at that time 14D DEEN LAID IN ABIES, with tho exception of & larzo lumoerinz concern with which ho was ennnccted, and which hsd gone into bankruptey; that ho was on its paper for $250,000: tast he had nothing left excent thy stock in tho hands of the Asaignes: that he ape pealed to the Judze, and sald, **Now, ran't you neslst mo in some way or olher, and not huve thls sold at publls anctiont™ that the Juage wanted to know the value of the stock, and if it was hypothecated; that Lo told htm tho amount for which It was bypothecated was $15,000, with accrued Intercst amountiug to nearly $5,000 more, nnd that tho stock wua very valuable; that he considored the nowspaper almust na dear to hiw as his child; that he had helped to bring it up from notbing to one of the Ia moet Influential papers In tho United Stat ho had PUT ALL 13 ENEROY INTO 1T, hat o liad stood by the people, had antze the party, and had always been the Judge's friend; that thereupon Judge Blodgett dto him, **You are frientily tu Mr, Vocke," or **you are friondly with Mr, Vocke; you helped him to get apvointed ™'; that be replied, **You, ho v a fricul of mino: he will doanything I want im to"'; that the Judge said, ** Well, Jet Mr. Vacke procaro from different houses hera in thoclty offers forthat stock, and fhen yon can mrrango matters o that the offers will not ve very grent or very high"; that he replied, **Of courso I can, Every bunker in Chicago s my triend 5 that the Judge avked hun If the stock haa any wmarket value; that he told bim that some stock had heen #old, but that it had no real market valuo; that it was 1ot quoted; that parties who know glout the stack know its value; that Me, Voclko had bonght sowmu not lony befora; that he also told the Judge ADOUT ALL TIIE DIVIDENDS 1t had pald, and ' was paying, and appenled to him on that account to save Lim aud hia family from going to thu puor-house; that be tuld the Judgo that most of the policiea had beon bought up oy ¥peculstors, and that the orlginal ownera of tha policles would lose but Hitle by the transaction if the rtock were sold below its value} thut he saw Mr. Vocko, went to Mr. Ceolbaugh, dictated the latter of Mr. Goodell, saw . Mr. Scnnetdor, wrota the letter of Mr. Rohm hhnecl!, saw Ifenry Girconcbaum and ssked him to bid 85,000 for the stock, which he did, and paid it; that the money thus puld by Ureencbanm was charved 10 him ((lesing), and tho stock beld as collaterul for the amount in tbe Clerman Natlonal Hank; Ahat, fndlug ‘that Floraheim, Wetherell, and & son, who wero among tho largest creditors of the Germants Jusurance Company, wero hreatening to kick abont this arranguwment, he pald them 82,600 extra for keeplug tholr months shut and making a bid of $3,000; that the order for solicit- oy bius, mado on the 7th of Apreil, and (he order of salo nlal, made on the 11th of the sume month, wero both in pursuance of an arranyuincnt betwecn Judge Blodgett, the Asvignee, and himsclf 10 en- bl him to buy in the stock AT LESS TIAN 178 REAL VALUE, and that after the oruer of April 7 had been made oither his counsel, Gen, Loake, or Mr Vocke suggostad tho 1dea of Xeeping off the minute-book, though which 1t was ho waa nnablo to remember, 1f there woro no further ovidence than -that ale ready ndverted to, your Committcs would have no Lesitation in saylng that, In thelr judgment, the charge was fully susiained, snd that Judge Blodgelt should be fmpeached and remuved from oftice us apcedily ae vosslble, With nothing to countervail or explaiu fi it woald show 1o the oxclasiun of & ressonsdple duubt & cune ningly-dovised and artfully-exccuted schemo to defraud the creditors of the Germania Insurance Cowpuny fur the beneft of Mr. Hesug to wlich Judge DI oy had him rcheme, xas not only & plrty, tat whlch he S5 twested. - That thare was sich s N at it reanlted preciscly as the bene: »ing) desired, there can from 'n jany reasonable quostion; but svith: Lcredence to the testimony of Hesing | - himeelt 1o ...nld be tmpossible o convict Jadge Blodgett of auy criminal knowledgo or torrup! participation In 1t whatever. This out of the.way. there 18 nothing to show that Judgo Dlodgett! action in the matter was dilferent from what any othur Judge wight have done under similar cireume stances \ IN PRRPECTLY GOOD FAITIL While the differonce 1o the manner {n. which the notes and stock of Mr, Iesing and the other os- seta rumsining in the hands of the Assigneo twere ordered to be aold might seem to require some ex planation, it is In evidonce that the mothod pree acribed for the aalo of the former was by no meant unuzoal in that court. and besides it appears from the testimony of Mr, Tenney, alawyor of.very ox- tensive practico and expericnce in such matters, as el as tho statoment of Judge Rlodgett himselr, that such n coursc had boen genarally found Wopt bencficial to the parlies iIntorested, and there can be but 1ittle donbt that, nad the order come fi knowledge of the creditors and gzeneral pabife through the daily prints or otherwise, the sivgk would have brought far morc than it did, ‘l‘hu‘ want of that publicity ‘was partly _attributable to tho manticr {u which. the ordur had been drawn by Heaino's attorney, omitting a public advertisemient for blds which mignt have been hindvertentiy over' luoked by any Judgc, ‘and parlly to the fact fhat Mr. Vocko addressed hia cirenlar to : A VERY LIMITED NUMDGR OF DANEEUS AND , . CAPITALISTS, " .the nlmzloflc“ml of whom, ir not lll. were suggested to him by Iesing himuelf, and partly to « the fact that notice of the order faled to et Into the dally newspapers {n the .usual way; Uut, whether that failure resulted from a soppreasion of | the order from the minnte-book or not..it fs,not cven pretended that Judge Blodgett either suge . - gested o had any knowledeo of any such supe prassion, fnrce af Mr, Hesing's testimony s, however, * materially Impaired by a variety of circumstances. In the first place, it1s quito evident that his feclings towards Judgo Blodiett are snd have for o lans: time been fur from o friendly character, . Howover Intimate hia relatfons may have been with Judge Dlodgett prior to tho urlal of tho whisky cases InChicago fn 1870, it is cortain that tbey have been noything but Kindly since; and, although Mr. Hesine denlea: having made any threats ngatust the Judgo, {t appears; from the evi- dence of Mr. Kerfoot, Mr. Stafford, Mr. Ballon- tin, Mr. Mlller, and perhaps othors, that, soon after lie hud bean sentenced on his plea of wuiliy to an indictment for 8 conspleacy to defeaud the Government. ho denounced Judge Blodgett in the moxt violent and vindictive manner, and hoped to live long enough to get evon with him and be ré- venged on him, Besides, while many of Me. Hes. ing's statements ara substantially If not fully cor- roborated by the teatimony of other }vnnunes. as, for {instance, the fact that he had “an intervicer with Judge Blodgett; that he sugeested to Vocke the names of persons to whom he shoald apply for Lida; that he afterwards saw soveral of those peor~ sona himself; thnt e snggestod tho replics received from ot least some of them; that be arrangdd with Florsheim, Witherell, ond Blsson to keep lhelr~ mouths shut, and TAID iz 82,500 THEREFOR; i that he procured Honry Qroencbsum to' make the bid of $5,000 for him, sod altarwards racolved his notes and stuck-book for precissly that ram,—yet tn other wnterlal particnlars Immodiately affecting the question of Judgo Blodgstt's criminal complie ity tn the consplracy, la'ls plainly conteadicted by other witne: For - example, ha represents that his appeal to Jndsw Dlodgett wasa to cnable hm to et the’stock back at less thau iis seal wvulne, In'ordar to ' save Limsclf and his family trom the poor-honse,’ after having in- formed hlus fuily of tho dividonds it had patd add was paying, ‘and to the effect that e begged that tho stuck should not be sold at public auction.' Hat “Mr. Vécko; wha'clalms” to have béon prosont, and who nndertakes to describo Mr. Hoaing's plaintive -appenl, ond’ repeits sibstantially much that Hes. Ing fiuniself clalms to Lavo-sald, syears that Ifes- fng Insisted and gave the Judge the most positive and solemn assurances that “if the’ atock was sold ut private sale It wounl' roalize very mitch moru than could possiply be gotten for it at pubiic sale, or wereit placed in tho hand of the Marshal, ond that b referrod to the fact of his having been once Sherl@ of the zounty, and of haviug SOME EXPERIENCE IN BUCH MATTERS, and that he knew that valuablo paners were often slaughtered at such nales on account af the non- attendance of bidders, ‘Troe,, it might bo sald that Hesing was in the Judge's chambers when Vocka canie In, ns Vocko asys-was the case, und that the couvarsution between nhhn and Judge Blodgots might lave taken place bofore Vocke arrlved, and what tool: place in the' presence of Vocke was {h- tended to protect tho Judge from subsequent crit- sciom, Btill, huwever plausible such o 'theory might sccw, there 8 no proof that itistruo, Aguin, Mr, Hesing states that after Lo had made the arrangeent with Judee Dlodgets, aa dotalled i bia testimony, he informed other stockholders of it, and thoy ali wanted him to aestst them aiso, ‘fo say tho Jeost, this would have been 4 very siogular praceeding for n wmwsn of “Mr. Hesing's sazacity, who had just entered futo o dis- reputanle conaplracy with a Judge for the purpose of defrauding certain partles interested In u matter pending before the Judge, when the dlsclosure could hinve had no other effect than to defeat tho very object for which the consplracy was entored fnto, but ho suys that at tha meeting of stockhold- era thoy did not say that they had no odjection to Mr, Hesime getting out of 1ho scrapo the best ho conld oy account of the grest losses ho had suse tained, but they had to object to any.other debtors dolug 80, a8 the others wero all avle to pny. The stockholders mentioned by him as having been present ot tho meeting reforred to, eapecially Mr. Pence und Mr. Lowenthal, dony, however, that y over lieard of any such arrangoment be Mr. llexlng and Judge Dlodzett, Besides tuls, the stadement by Judgo Divdgett under oath, snd the evidence offered by him fu corroboratlon thervof, tends strongly to estublish tho theory that 4n rendering tho ordera reforred to he acteit In good” fuith for wiat ha considercd tho best lutorcsta of the creditora s woll as of Mr, Hestog, which ls directly tho roverss of that advanced by Hesing himeelf. Without, thurefore, adding unnccod arlly to the volume of the report. by referring to other though perhaps loss wuteria) contradictions of AMr, Heslug or other clrcumstancea sppearing in evidonce tending to alminish its weight, your Committes are of tho opinion that, whlle the factsTa the possession of . tho memorlalists, a8 shown o the casa made by them, FULLY JUSTIPIED Tilis DESIAND FOR AN INQUIRY. into the oMetal conduct of Judga Blodgett, yot in viow of all tho evideuce brought out on the Investi- gatlon, an impeachment could nat be sustained on this charge, The socond charge presentaa by tha memorialists was to tho offect that Jidge Blodgett had impzop- erly attempted to prevent the Grand Jary from - finding an fndlctment apalnst Homer N, Iibbard ' for perjury In having swofn falucly fn making the renort required by the nineteonth sectlon of tue Dankeupt act of Juno 82, 1874, of the “fecs and emoluments recelved or earned by him ae Reglstor in Nankruptcy, and with having wrong- fully and wilifully procured the wuppression of such Indietment after It had beon found, Several of thu (rand Jurors waee called to testily in rcla- thoi to this charge, all of whom concurred fu the statement that the Grand Jury had ugreed unao- fwously to Indict M. Hilbard for perjuty in hav~ fug wworn falsely to the roport he we required Lo ke under the law roforred to abiove, snd directed Mr, Hange, the Iistrict-Attorney, 2 TO FIEPARY THE INDICTMENT, which hie promised todo;that onthe lnst day of their session, Nov. 3, 1878, they mot aud sdjournod from time to Linie, walting for Indictments wlich they had found 1o be proparad and presented to themny that at 5 o'cluck in the afteraoon Mr. Liangs fuforimed thetn that ho hiad not yet completed tho fudictinent agalnat M, Jlibbard, but would have fc dona by 7 o'clock tuat evoniug; that st 7 o'clock ba again appeared bofore thom, and stated that he had preparegribe fudictment, but declined to sub- * mititto thow, What vceurred upon thbls siatoe ment bolng made may by gathored from the- fof- fowlng quotasions from tbo testimony of severslof ., . the Grand Jurors who weré swarn; k Mr. Duloy says: **You roturued -shag! Indtcte meat, did you nok?! A.~'*No, #irj we could not get it." Q Why could you not get it . A,—**Judge Bangs sald be would haye