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ns i i -_— Sa SSS gts = ST BPR me. * the Becretary that if these omisions he has ee mentions constituted evidence to prove The wwe Suw, that Dr. Howanp had expatriate himself Te Hhines for A. we know several of his own friends ¢ and relatives who are in the same predica- THURSDAY, APRIL 4 ment. How wenk must be the cause that = 2 | ie compelled to bolster itself up by such Amusements Vo Hooth's Theatre The otto Howery Then sue Minatrete 65 1 Mat ra Moure tt ‘ Wallack’s Theatre Wood's M ply Dompty asey fT a al the §) the Whiskey Ring. We would reasoning as this, But clima: been duly constituted tribunal Cuba.’ descrit mony and meet been ww Adinininistra Connolly Vouchers the belng terrified either by threats or tempte by the case of the x of absurdity when he d gularly tried aud fo befor rest doubtless were like And now we suppose © our Secretary of St hose professional eng: yen will form one red by the people against the ¢ nin November next, Robeson retary reaches th ‘ares that “ the strong point is that Dr. Howarn has md guilty by a 1 the islind of The tribunal thus euphoniously «J was composed of cutthroats and sins, One witness his already testified that he was induced to give false testi- vitunder terror of death; and him, this American citizen must languish in chains, Ii the horrors of Spanish torture te has a son-in- ts with minish Government are too lucrative to be interfered with, here is some cousolation in the thought that this outrag most telling counts in the indictment to be RANT The Stole The Missing Papers. agent to of the When cer ub Vouchers were wanted to For the acec Hon of apt residents rp | eonvict Mr, Cossouny of frauds, those Ueemente for Tue SUN will he Fe te 1 vouchers happened to be stolen from their Fa oe ater ee rtocday and. rictn | idee of deposit in the Comptrolior’s office, deemed Gd BOM Went Torenieahing f “Jorhe disappearance of these vouchers, un- Grand Opera Monge, fro SAM to SPM dev the circumstances, was universally re- — garde proof conclusive of ConNoniy's What has been Proved Against Scevee | guilt—cquivalent to a confession by him tary Robeson. When certain documents by which the m the sessions of the Investieatin, guilt of Rourson would appear are wanted mittee for the hist (Wo days the foll from his office, itis ascertained that they facts have been proved: beyond any av have mysteriously vanished. ‘These papers tion helong in his Department, and should be + Pirst—That on Jane 15, 1871, he paid to | (here; bat they are not there, ZENO SECOR $23,000 on Account of work on | Roweson has no satisfactory explanation ays in building the Wee- This money he ights and Sun wken in iss, paid out to make, but it so ha been fully established by other eviden Mc pens that bis guilt ha was of an appropriation for deficencles in : ar RE the Bureau of Construction for the year The Brooklyn Election Frauds ending June 3), 1870, in violation of In the fall of 1570 Brooklyn © provision in the act “that the money so] gteed by the most outrageous election appropriated shall be « 1only for | frauds, Patnrek Cusstveram, Boss the purpose of providing muaferitls, earrys | Lavenrs'’s enndidate for Sheriff, ing on the work, aud paying the em- | counted in, but he fraud was so transpar ployees of the Bureau for which it is ap- [ent and the indignation of the people so propriated Seoondiy—That in the contract with Pes Nock, of Coutesville, I for in torpedo boats, Rourson pays ten pound for p iron worth only tor iwo ats and one-quarter cents, ten cents Ney Manoxey, Groror Brows, and Jus- iron worth only tive cents, and ten | tice James Buckiey, were indicted for cents for irou beams worth five cents, 1 election frauds, ‘The latter five were tried ing for the aggregate quantity contracted | a for about one third more than its market | sentenced to thoes mouths imprisonment, value, the total amount of the fraud | Manoxey to thirty days, and Gxroroe being from $37,000 (0 £43,009. ‘This frundu- | Brows aud Justice BrcKLEY to ten day lent contract was given out with-| District Attorney Mornts was the prose- out advertising, and — without any | cating officer, and Wixenester Brrrros knowledge of the fact among iron manu- | counsel for the defence. Mornts con- facturers, Conclusive testimony respect | ¢ prosecution with great vigor ng the value of this iron was given at | After the sentence Burros appealed to Washington lust evening by Annamw S.] the Supreme Court, The action of th Hewirr of this city, Gian whom there is | lower court was confirmed, Buirros then oo higher authority ave Morris notice that he would take th —— oto the Court of Appeals, The Case of Dr. Howards About that time the MeLaranty Ri Recretary Fis has written a letter to | discovered that Morris had charged the Vice-President Corax, in which he sub- | county more for the services of one of his stantially tukes the side of the Spanish an- thorities against Dr. Howanp’'s assertion of | that Morris himeelf pocketed the differ- American citizenship. He dwellsearnestly | euce, Monts was tried and convicted « upon the fact that two medicine chests | mulfeasanee by the Board of Supervisor marked with his name were found in the | but was allowed (o escape on the repayment camp of the insurgents; and, us if to add | of the money he had pocketed, Whether insult to injury, adds that he has been | there was any barg between Mornrs regularly tried and found guilty by a duly | and the Ring is immaterial, ‘The plain constituted tribunal in the island of Cuba, | fact remains that that was the end of And this, to use his own tae, is the | Monitis's prosecution of the men convicted strong point Which prevents the interven- | for jon frauds, Proceedings agaiust tion of this Government in behalfoft Dr. | them stopped with Barrros’s notice to Howanp from becon efficacious for his | Mons of anappeal to the court of last release, resort. Since that time nothing has been The whole Gocumenut is characteristic | done in either case, and the untried indic of the iliation and lack of ability | ments against Brows aud McLavoutis visible in all that has emanated from | ‘cousin of the Boss) have been pigeon- the State Department since Mr. Pisin ha oled been at its head, The fact is that (hrough Meanwhile Wisenester Burertox, the the instrumentality of his son-in-law, Sip- | counsel of the convieted criminals, has ney Weseren, it has becn run in the inter | been elected obubly counted in—Dis- est of the Spanish Government, and | trict Attorney, 1 is his duty to prosecute thus the generous father- Ww hasbeen | the case in the Court of Appeulsagainst his enabled to put much money iu the purse | own clients. This, of course, he could not Of one Whose interests are dear to him do profesionally, but the Attorney-Gen- When one remembers the vigorous ae. | eral night substitute some one in his place tion of our State Department in’ former | for this pur The people demand (hat times in favor of a merely domiciled stran- | Uiey shall serve their time in prison, Tad ger, Mawrrs Koszta, the contrast is most las | they been sent there in due course of law mentably mortifying. This man Ke shad | ihe whol le ¢ tion frauds of lust full done no move thin declare his intentions | might not have been perpetrated, of becoming acitizen, and yet bow prompt itive Buckiey is still on the bench ly was the weis of the national protection | and his fellow criminals are at da thrown over hint A him ist the ty of the Cominitter of erueltios of Austrian tyrauny! Bat w ree the prosceution of had then the bold, vigilant, and: ast in the frauds of the lust Marcy atthe head of our slite Depart v figst duty to force the inept, dud not the gentleman of « ( rey to do justice to Jelsure, more fit TS ) Wie f y > of 170. 1 thele Urawing-room than discuss que ‘ Lout, and let the indict international haw Tents against Baown aid MeLALGiLin be What are fvots in th f Dr, | dian trom the pigeon-holes of the D Howanp, oF vARD, a . 1 J tilt Attomey Mees and the aceused pi ealls him proved that this unt ties be placed on trial ftunute gentleman isa {the United a tates, He was born here ot a father whe | Two siamo) . tat bis ree. Was, at (he time of his birth, a naturalized | " nh correspondent of the Citizen, He went to Cuba with that father | Nee 2 Tines says: “It sooms that at an early age, but was sent back to his | duds Rosa was a Me ENaC kis Tonle native country to be edueated, After | builder in the country competent: to build taking bis molial eo at the Jef. | compound engines. erson College in eo olty of Philadel On this gro tis attempted to justify phia, he returned to Cuba to prac. | the vielition of law committed by Rout tise bs protessi When he pl ov N in giv Poontintet to Rose nt. permission to practise, he indsted mpon | New, what are the Grets in the en it that bis license should Vhis inquiry is fully answered by th vitizen of the United ta 1 1 timony before the Congressional Com description was uceordin catered | wittes, now investigating the Rot by the authorities, This shows conel fraud ven by Groce Witson, | sively that he had no intention of 1 i entof the Washin nouncing bis allogiane aay, btu ee eek oanta of the mouths of the Spanish auth ‘ ' : were su} Ltobe certain priv y ean Diwarcannened tl right t Bint We MAB Ey | MY ft Mpar eet Suppose that they im an DY contract wiih in the f f the fact that neither eve ALY eres soveC RTGHTS SMS CaM rer pF of Fah righ prive th ; mnt Vf t nip, on ¢ * aby He f ‘ \ vom a |? a ove 1 KOT fd yome aber fin wel 4 oun rt ! { t the Tim COPPespou ho offered his services asa or sub- | dent, whed t erintenden poribed to ui y of the war charities, or paid | Wat Who does know, one or the other fan ineome tax; aud he taight have added, did not share 2a Uhe plunder arising frow a war contract and wae not @ member of Hare to dechire candidate LIAM A, Brows, Het Micnarn Hasson, Henry P. Mayo, Bar- t nad Tucted the clerks tha onvieted, that the Sup Mr. Wa elected, HM Mc is mistaken, Wh tive tut a fraudulent could there be for visors were compelled ens, the Republican Soon afterward Wit AvGHLEN (Bub), Hanson and Mayo wer the clerk actually received, and and corrupt mo- giving out these THE contracts, privately and without advor- titing, for work which gould have been done better in the Navy Yard? If the motive wae patriotic, It wae a kind of patriotism that looked to dollar, and paid well. — One of the most valuable features of the Prussian military eystem Is the complete decen- traltzation which haa been attained tn the dls- tribution of oMctal duties, wheroby all untm= portant details are properly attended to without trouble or reference to the superior officers. ‘Thus the work of armies goes on thencumbered by red tape restrictions, and where faults are detected there is no di Meulty In fastening the responsibility precisely where it belongs. Col. Criraxty, an English officer who was recently in Germany on an official mission, In a lecture delivered at Aldershot described a visit to the chief of the staffof one of the most noted gen- erals who was stationed In newly-acquired ter- ritory, He found him «killed tn the theory of his profession, master of every detail of every arm over which he had to watch, and responsible to his chief for the working of an army corps In Its fu'l strength, quartered In a politically hostile country, without martial law, and with duties that would oblige him to com- munteate officially not only with the heads of departments in the corps ftaelf, but with numer- # French and German clvillans, Yet, although he really controlled the motions of 25,000 sol- dlers, he had but three letters on his table to an- wer and two to look over, all routine business having been attended to without ref ee to him by thoroughly instructed subordinate of- fivers, Durtng the war but few mistakes were made by the Prussian staff offi Hizatio ra, the perfect aystem of decent pursued leaving them leisure to consider thelr own specitle duties without being harrassed and perplexed in regard to details — An anonymous correspondent writes to us from New Providence, N.J., aaying that th Inhabitants of that town feel indignant at ‘Tre Sty for Its partiality In singling tt out for fs at tacks in reference to town bonds. He asserts that the towns of Bernardsville and Bedininster Issued bonds of like amount and for the sane purpose, and that neither of them has pald any interest stnee Jan. 1, According to him also, the people of New Providence maintatn that if they are “repudiators,” the inhabitants of the whove-mentioned towns are In the same oat, Very well, We do not aay nay, ——— The care exercived in England in the se- lection of public employees is Mustrated in the following list of questions which was sent to a former employer of a young man who had ap- plied for a situation as copyist ina Government office at the munifivent salary of tenpence an hour: « 1. Are you related to the candidate? If #0, what We the relatioustip 2% Are youwell acqualuted with Fron what cirenustances dors your Of hint ariar? de How long have you known hun? 6 What have been Vie places of his education » 6, If he bas been in your chuplaytnent, Will you mention sof his entering and quitting Four Kervice ? Fit he has bad other employment, can you give the naines and addr Chiscniployers? 8. Ishe strictly honest, sober, intelligent, diligent? 9. What bas been Tie state of his health eluce you have know ao him? e ith to be. thee Has he, to you 12. Are you aware of any cir: lity hin for the situation i you yourwelf trust him with ig, aronbied Honesty. wud would you recommend him for euch to your pervoual friends 2” These inquiries are very searching, and might be deemed unnecessarily strict In this country, But they serve to show the precautions taken in England to sec the service of honest men in public employment, and it isa wifeant fact that a defaleat ina publle office is @ crime 1). Do you bell from pecuniary etn Harrassment ? 11 dg Almost unknown In that country Mr. Movitey’s gus reform bill, which has passed ty panies or shall fur Assembly, provides that all « anized under the general law of Isis ish ixteen-candle MMuminating power, and containing only thirty grains of #ul- phur per thousand fect, bestdes which It makes various other stringent prov As the Metro- politan and the New York Mutual Companies are working wader special charters, the bill does not apply to them. How do the sufferer in th up-town district like this discrimination against them? Sais) atteropt is making to teece the mau facturers and consumers of straw paper by pro curing from Congress @ revival of the old MeL 148M patent for the manufacture of the arttele The patent wos always doubtful, and more over, it expired some three or four years ago. Its renewal now would be the grossest outrace upon the people, The effort to procure it is made in behalf of the American Wood Paper ( ot the A 1 : How ly adopted i patent for” the of doubltil Legally, aud its tera baving long since Those interested in this matter should see t it at once that their representatives in Congress are fully informed of the fact A Swedish paper, the Norrhjepings Ti publishes a story to the effect that a time ago a man arrived in Kettilstad, a all village in Sweden, bringing with him a amount of money and a big box filed with nid other valuables, He was soon after with the small-pox, and died; but some dewla, I em larg Jewels days previous to his death confessed, in the presence of several persons, that he, with # accomplices, had started the fire which re sulted In the destruction of Chicago. ‘The story Is not a very probable one; but still, as it has been fairly proved that Mrs. O'LEAREY's cow Was Innocent of having caused the reat disi ter, itl my je that it may be true, An illustration of the angry feeling! n France and Germany growin war Jed by a recent act of qquarkan Soclety of France In. strike Lin foreign a poctall A number of autieProneh wri Considering that MomMsen did no more t ny \ ) author would have don for bis ys the a neither digulded nor w "i it over In pt everson thelr site, must needs ineet indignit with indignity, and jon rinans to belong t f hown themeet itt a this Provident Gras vathor unpopular rinthe State Convention which was held tt rin cad tho expected action of the Phil dotplita ( vawas voted down by 26 to 1s, ¢ color j Hisantistod because thelr to have not been dul ed party wre idered eligible t friends of A | \ “ ppokn Black Hits, haw henied a prockumation warntn toenter the region in question under nources, Including Gon, SANTLRY, 1h command at the Government reservation, and the Bucrelury of Dakota, the Information comes that the re- POrtee disvovertes Of yok) thore ure falukous, SUN. THE ALBANY LEC MISLATURE. ANOTHER DAY SPENT IN DOBATING TUR SUPPLY paaed-S Opposition to Approprintl Kehools The Henate’s A of Prof, Morse-J of the Strikers, ALMANY, April 3.—The bill to pay the 1 by tho to the Assembly this morn- ndiment provides that the widow of Sergeant Wyatt, Senate, came do ng. ‘The Senate an city, Instead of the State, sho Mr. Flammer to that a Committee of Conferer claiming that Mr.Wyatt I BILL, one for Kectarian ction on the Death te as ame nuld pay the money. soneur, and asked ¢ be appointed, t his life while acting under the orders of the Governor {n calling out the Nattonal Gu On the other hand, it was argued by Mr. Flelds that it was the duty of the elty of New York to maintain order and peace within its limits, and ff Its police force was not suMictent, and ft waa found upon the State for ald, that t be made to suffer therefor. d neecessary to cal he State should not He moved to refer the bill to the Board of Andit of New York,with power to Investleate and pay # they thought proper. was discovered that the bill ch amount as After «long discussion it was defective, In that {t did not provide any way for raising the money, and on motion of Mr. ferred to the Committee on to report at any thme. In widow of Mr.Wyatt,who Is sa uumstances, and actually formers get t pay the mon + if she does ne Dill failing to 1 Moreley ft was re- Cities, with power the mean time the id to be In reduced suffering for the ssaries of life, will have to walt until the re= hy quarreling over wh ehall vt fail to get it en- «in the confusion vd rush attendant upon the Inst days of the THE SUPPLY DILL. The consideration of the supply bit was again resumed inthe Assembly this morning, and the entire cession was taken up In discueston over the appropriations to Normal schools. The apr « were attacked by Messrs, Moseley, Sinythe, Fields, Foley, Hawkins and others while the“ Artfal Dodger,” assisted by thos representatives whe come from, counties where these selogls were located, d them, During the disctiasion Fields enited attention to the fact that hardly y thus voted away for school purvc south { Albany, Moseley and Smythe said the appros pirlations were tn the Interest of aristocratic and high-toned education, as opposed to the common school ayatom of the State, « to the fact that the gentleme for these appropriations, last Hawkins alluded n who were asking night yoted down M mendment to give alittle money to the ragxed echvols of the State, and also to th Announwemont made by the chairman of the Ways and Means Committec that there was to bono charity bil this year, He belleyed that if the ragged children of the elties of New York and Brooklyn, as well as their sick, aud lame, and destitute were not entitled to any assistance from the State, then these high-toned ar cratle institutions certainly were p o'clock Old. alt onnounced cussion began tha river ha hoped it would not contin cgain, After the ap ed on, and the matter was tled, 1 to strike the Norm fort then, on motion ation wasted was made a sp over whieh stricker Lorder THE DEATH OF P The Senate transacted an 4 this morning. An however, were of ho urrent out and riations had all be ir this ¢ OF, MORSE, t. At about that since the dis- «opened, and hy ie until It closed th ned to be net- he appropri pool at Brock- su al 8 is Was carried by a sinall majority, and Mr. Moseley, every approprl nearly two ‘ays had been 1 the bill was again ening. unusual amount of nagority of the bills particular Interest resolution, amend= ing the Constitution in Its application to the government of State prisons, met with no opp sition. A communication from the Governor, advising action on the death of Prof, Morse, called forth eulogistic remarks from Senators Woodin and Murphy. the latter advocating the Kea of placing at t nal capital statues of Prof. Morse and Fulton, Senators Woodin, D. PB. Wood, and Murphy were appoint- ed. to draw ip suitable resolutions, Senators Koberteon, Benedict, and Lord were appointed a committee to attend the funeral THE CASE OF @RNATOR WOOD: ator Chatfield called up his resolution ex- we Senator Wood, and moved to wake it a er for Friday. He said he had tried e times to cet the resolution before Dut had failed exch time nator Lord moved to make hit resolution calling for Grant's resignation a special order for the wate day, In his opinion the only difference hetween Wood and Grant was in the fact that one gaye a note for money borrowed and the other did not. The Administration Senators ine dignantly voted the props ndown, Senator Woodin wanted the r to cot morrow, but neverihele As set dl Friday oon as this wetion was tak tor Lewis offered on behalf of ator V defence written by Henry K.selden. Ho moved to have it printed and laid on Senators’ desks Renator rphy called for ite reading. The Clerk read Huta few Hues whea Mr. Murphy said he thought it} a tempt te f stall the action of a t 5 ment. Het that it {to the Sen ator, but Qnally modified the notion seas to call nly for the suspension of the reading, motion was carried nator O'Brien's bill providing for the ment of newspapers having clali m city of New York was considered in Committee oftheWhole, On motion of Senator benediet,the Hil was aniended so that "all newspapers” hay vg claiins up tod yy Isc, be paid, ‘The bill Was (uen progressed HAWKINS'S PROGICAMMTE, The gallant Col, Hawkins was thia me aoked by a gentleman what w Hawkins When a bill has un be lald on the table. ont riots striker, We “struck,” Etta that it ia or down aniong the dead men." Tiquirer—Well, Colonel, todo now? What is the pr Hawkins My the vartridyeshox box a fair trial, and it has pr Us how try the eartridge-box ‘And the gallant Colonel w martial read of a gollion w enemy before hin, and was Mut a shade of sorrow passed face as he reflected that in he could ne rallant Major Hawkins Z M lar patent feather rived here tht relat market Kimball, wh to glory an of bu bo ul moruligy t >the t ‘operty toh Orit Ler 2 or wi the Brooklyn 7 0 House. today for it, LYN tad pay t A cancus of Honrds Wator Po aid (hat fartiier fogtslation ters te to} ea cana are’ U hiwoot t th v » MeMahor 4 J. Mair whos H.G. bi Phe eannot be less t inueh over that to encrowei be Te we 'to ticelare, woe that th tho people. ayids eholee Feprestmuttive, done anytting for the pury wranine ramine now fs to give them We have g Fiche ng Lol Mt so low th i f being ought to be "way hat do you propose the ball afailure, Let alked off with th ho already saw the xious for the fray over his handsome he longer have in the advance the >» always hers in shiny hat W store clothe Appear before the HM wuthorizing the in the city of New ve the bill i Hers appointed, y the butchers, t y Chat if thisis dane proper led thi POLITICIANS, on Kiyn nat red. The nee OC tlhe a introduced World * benator of hin worthy haw, ware ast of but that his prior condact had boon aueh that the poople OUKHE MYT to have cheted bin ‘Fhiv Would be w dicot Defence of Kenator Wood- The Charter in the Linn niarpation of the rlette of his conetituency Without Justinention. people, elite? tr or nittiog Tim Bie after to by hie elec aty of the bod ont an to the Bena ally eligi blep cnator should, tte the to whieh he Ie elected to give him t MORE WASHINGTON FRAUD, - were Extorted by the y The Presents that Comptroller of the Currency The oaltlon and the rapeet to wileh hie repececntnts ied by his Underlings Hatbard’ position Is without reproact. flor beoracinlaal Hou Ia Boutwell's aude, RO MPROPER IRFLOENCES UeED. Compzsroller Hulburd has been allowed a But passing this question, Judge Belden ah thirty days’ absence ‘om Washington. iit that tt doeg not ived at, ivocated and urged by Tweed have of measur which the cor condemned—t {RHUL the conclustons the comuititoe in regard to Renator Wood's eupport Mena es re now almost wilversall # there iano pretence tha imnittee any defenee Any Impropet infuentes were brought to bear (o wecure Me vate, New York ohi ir to pve hie on tn frei to up Khown aa the the bers, with the Fi f he ts to be sondemne before and after ita passage, th ere ded in agch conden omy mimittee men Ihport ty OF advent te py Democrats and meamures. Senator Wood’ voted in ubtlens, ds fi dictates port of these bilie le te receive conden demnation should embras : At least, al bin thet aupport, ter, which met with gi Y it onl yori on not only major at alwoa wide circle of Repubiican eal Tf vt wae to the bill, it wae equally mi fax leview were supported and oppored Tepublieans, and were i nators and. ftepy his Judgment, and, if, hie sup. ee all the Benators And men he eens aga we thie RAM ere WAR nO legiatation connects ring Renator Wood's term. road, TWEBD'S $16,000 LOAN EXPLAINED. i ir he | Tweed to Bepator We gibt fhe fuller te ahtre We’ ng ext ence ‘an inference, but a very forced ans ron Falone, thet i to Wood's Lor Wood. een made if had not existe for on the one Atde, been granted, follow that Uie loan f neh Inference other clreumet i shown Mr. Tweed waka fault acrime, pon borrowed Sibley on hie indivi L to Chamberlain, with whom he wi ene. It may, de conceded that this loan, would not have ad an: Connection with, 0 ative , ities, past or prospective the money for chan note, ediacely aye it Tuterested in bust: the the ofirsal character of ‘The parties (ott hat it and on the other would no if It hind been; it does not by any me: rulehes evide ‘ 1d he exeeedingly uns imatances require utterly Fee proper for An Tor: way evide 4 to ort presente, WHY JAY GOULD LENT HEM $10,000, tention, Ni ich he wa Defore the Benate duri The loan made by Ja Gomld scarcely dererves any 1, nor the Terie [tall y legtstative me tor Wood's ther Tain and Would not have been applied of av Fesignation is In the hands of Secretary Bout- well. He has also fled a defence against the revelations made by George I. Rutter—a defence sorely needed. On Dec. 20, 171, Mr. Rutter wrote a letter to Congressman Randall, In substance he said therein yee that yo) nal bank a n the Are on a committee to examine into ire, T have been advised to write to Lhave proof that Mr. Hulburd, the ney, and bis underlings black: While L was President of tie, tennerse eX K and robbed me. h their tareatity t erated for my tise Auli ¢roubte Ie f utoge y tine ay rouble if f The letter was dated New York, Mr. Rutter was persuaded to present himself before the Committee on Banking and Currency. He was only a half-willing witness, eceming afraid to tell the whole truth, and oppressed by the selousneas of his own derelictions, by his diss grace and his poverty. Comptroller Hulburd was present throughout, the examination, He id little, apparently admitting the trath c rharges.' The committeo, after a full and patient hearing, passed a resolution favoring Hulburd’s removal. A BUMMARY OF THR TESTIMON: Mr. Hutchinson, cashier of the National Rank the M olis, met me at Washington in 1865. We founded the Tennessee National Hank of Memphis, and ran it about tw: years, It waa successful for atime. After a while the radical Republicans of Tennessee made us the Seal agent of the Western District of the State, W were to support their party, and they would sup= port us. ‘They promived to favor our bank, do What they could for us, make thelr deposits with us. From that time ts to be dated the beginning our ruin, ‘The State deposit (614.200) was made with tis, and tmmediately afterward cu- rlous loans were demanded of us, Sixtee Tennessee Legislature a cers gave us to understand th sought no leg fea hue: Lan) eta Mowe? Woodie exertions in behalf of a projected railroad to | extortionate that Lhad no alternative except to yaa tes mh Gensece Goentz 0 germ § cunnactive wits close the bank or break it rie through the Genesee alle Priol 10, b Atiy ent th eyislature sent a commit~ flection We Gould ads we he Uestiften, turuiehed | gd tho 1 comm reat tha He anaemia | tee Ante eat he Va uta Phy Uo ‘ood for the norilnat! ‘At Saratoga, $5,00, to enable | Ov! * Zo Ge money, Minto obtain, the mgnination’ We wisned to belay r obligations for the remainder. Che that acount. it Mr Wood Iald tup against him, and | that to be able to recu . but the depositors srobatiy thought ian easy way of doing ft by loaning | grew suspicious and withdrew thelr money, We Inayear. 1 the tc fad no hope left. E went to. Washington’ and stated the case to Comptroller Hulburd. We concluded it beat to place the bank in the hands friend Chara! ofarecelver, The receiver appointed was Mr plateut with the hi Hill, of the ‘Freasury Department Mr. Gould inten rable, fel 1 to be fart But ri whate as it had n Wood nea ben consideration The other mi while they she Greet whieh he 4 Anos one ini an act greater rate n of hit K ands C provides that railroad endehtpe abd to thts extent Me. We Wound’ by the favor dove htm, a ver light the transaction may be viewed, reference whatever to the duties. of MF. pator, it ie nota tuatler proper for the of the Sena A BLAMELESS RECORD, ters presented by the Investigation, Thorough serutiny which bis whele [Cor fanoceuce of the high crime reed? LITTLE KATLROAD JC re the Assombly ix kK, entitied ‘An act to aus 18. It panies charging a of fare than that allowed by law allows them to charge a4 of @ mile as for a whole passed April 1 must go back. Thad called on th Mtroller previews to this. The bank was in dition, but a receiver was not yet ne cessary. asked the Comptroller where Leould get a competent cashier, one fit for such w state of things. He recommended Mr. Hill, (In ref erence to this appointment, the committee pied Mr. Butler with questions, With much GiMoulky the following facts were elicited, But- jer ) When to Washington to get this cash- Comp 4 red a Hye most Be shat ore Wt Wtd not | der Mr, Hulburd visited me at my hotel. Hix |, presented as it te mainly by hie foes, have | general deportment and conversation cannot ght" in the eales of justice in determining | Fecall a sincie. dehnite word to. that effect—but his general action conveyed to me HIS DESIRE POR SOME PIKRSENT. fact, [knew he wanted a carriage # «from Young & Bros., on Pennsylval nue, and thither we went and [ cles for him, ‘They cost $600 or Q.—Did he ask you for them? AN. was no need of them, He could tnforn his wishes without that, It is an art generally jeratood, Q.-Why ‘did was the consideration ? tento me to come to Washington 1 make the present? What A. Well, he had writ- to correct a id the pen fy stall be v4 certain irregularities in our bank, and | came ac- fit of the poor of the county | cordingly. “I lodged at Willard’s Hotel. He in which the offence ts committed. It author- | called to see me. We went direct to Young & izes companies to reorganize under the pro- | Bros. and I bought the carriage. I was not Visions of the General Railway law, and gives | #lone in selecting it. To be brief. made, the them the privileges conferred by that Taw The An se e anply Lect: pos 8) eorote al conten mad 1k NON ed to a charge 0 fe eonditto é bank, and su pees By ets Wella, at eee vy chance of | Hulburd was like other politicians, and would t creasing one third to betray vey the idea enue Inte th hey can charge three cents, thus tt Income on the passenger travel * bill ts so cunningly worde its real object, but rather to con- that it ia intended to bring @ rev- 6 poor funds of counties through which the road passes, . who Is so an 1 Unpleasant floor of the Ass troduced by hands of th part of t shor to be Hill, that he wh une itr SUN th law don't ticipated, a very 1 Mh pas. neo th vices of t journal it than he us long ax t dupes fw that the Ju Dill at all, ay has not th ferred paying t se petitions for the of $10 notes fe fature, Hi 11 REY, WILLIAM HALT, xious that those drafted heroes wh fighting during “the i a8, in pstant visitor upon th His bill w in nd is now in the 6 Judiciary Committee. Was it a Bheaker's t. Inview of the derived from introducing such a uld vive the reverend gentieran stothe door in order to le y for he exposé of his little gaunve in THE passage Of such & in so) fast) as Was is sald that there has b falling off in’ his receipt the pur { "securing the he correspondents of the leading Still its oad he makes more out of nat preaching. and will stiek to it t pays. For the information of his T state that there Is no probability diviary Committee wil report the Wifthey de it will be ly. It ext chance of} the Le= will find it onary 0 substantial than ten inorder to capture the Speaker St ed help me through. IF PUT SOMETHING INTO 18 POCKPT, and would cause me unknown trouble ‘If T dn't. Moreover, he clearly implied that be wanted what I gave him Very shortly after this Mr. THM was aj cashiar, He came to Memphis, and at onc fan making demands of money. Twas it t ile, and he gave me to understand that he had power to cause me more. He threatened to have the Comptroiler begin criminal procecd- {ngs against me. By this course of blackinall re, After clerk of t Memplia aa a gout lef to Treasury ‘Departny kpecial agent to examine the bank. Like M called for money. In all T paid hin Two weeks later THI became. r iver of the bank. After that his extortions Lb alld suppose 1 patd Fresnore thant ever, yin $11,000, Q. What reason did they give for demanding ey divided what would Hill aid they roller, and trouble if Er A their demands. wanted @ of $5,000 while receiver, He went halves, he sald, on thatalso, [don't know divide’ their spoils, Mr, Hulburd assured me they did not money? A he Q.— You owed the bank a considerable amount WAS not this tioney whieh you paid Uhese men wart pay ment of your debt, and credited t By no means, They Were pure! ayments, and THE MONEY WENT DIRECT TO THE of these men. ‘There was anothe i tere That sort of currency wore | aMcer who blackmailed me, but he \ wd in Alban anything L may say about himecan hav 4 eee : Hut to hurt the feclingy of his tatnily. nero on the & 1 bur Two Had the power to withdraw then, i Ditevent 1 Fave him #40, and he allowed the deposits to From Tuesda rerait Ariong others whi indicted, | "Qe How did you approach him? A. Ie ap- and whose name itis not improper to mention | proached nie : «tine, is the famous Judge Pratt of | Q.- Did he ask youfor money? A.—No, sir, I Kiyn, & dudge of the Supreme Court of this | simply gave it edits information ioe obtadned ulependent= the conversation ly of the Distvlet Attorney's office, ve Men don't talk Fron Weineta Tribune. unde ul MA and se did t rand wot the fave Hefore the article alluded to was pul ROM MECMEATT youl gab. te reporter wax nent to Mf, Davis to wk se tian nat Faron Sid you wet, fre Vin, Pratt indicted was Judge Prattat Hrook- | tiller for the carriage et edd Iyn, ‘He returned saying, on the authority of (he | that t ahould ban Disiviet Attorney, tha Jutige Britt wete Ue ina, | Re Ne MeN on to testify that after The error, if there be any, bs tit of exeJudly bank went inte the hands of the recetyer he waa Davia. financially rut 1, and bis family w in want of Whitelaw Reid, Baq.. managing editor of the | the thal necessaries of ae He ree fray riune, is to lecture on *Journalisia in the | forced by bis poverty to demand of Murlbur TPRBS Ne AEA ISERIES O iyi 7 Hil and the others Who. had extorted mon University Chapel, Washington square, this | ents front hii, ening. ‘The above ts an Hlustration for hin to THE RETURN OF PART OF THE SPOIL tt Hurlburd gave alittle over €lm putting It ‘ in the ty of un. He w y to Mu The Heveuth t Judges | still laterand demanded, the differ Phe te th F bal what had been thus returned and the f Of the cart 4 harness. That let The caso of Stemmleragt. MeGuirewhtchit was | Gtners tke tt had. heen put in evidence huppoved Wat rerelved tte quictus by the disposttion | the eommittee, Here fs eae: sclurte;, Jt will to emealiegtoa that thie ase’ was out’ || RTA is eeatene Gaon Pee atalet ie. sic 1p ‘narciesa' Lb ony S irut Phe Spanish Elections Resulting inn Vietory | rae aH ¥ MAvEED, April ~The € for members i #4 “ vyis he Mt i} M dew re 1 net M 4 pi 2. Th 0 nf Mas » rire * ‘3 a iT bye 1a 1 lnnati Moy Wein Lowa, Fed thy t lites trayerd fue. lew Cre ago, Apel A call how been issued by the attale w th yo t t wi . ¢ Hon. J.B, Grinnell, Fite Henry Warren, Jacob Tut trite farine va coll ‘ ay yr C Hiepublivaus of the State of Lowe, for , ; ‘ nth . t re " a addr aed to elt z wot Lew el & ¢ aa ¥ « r DET y i u bog Joho stone Mil and the London Republicnos |) * York, t is f l , April d—The wel Wtavert tne th ; | 4 epul 1 a . iw ’ ; i H i ‘a | tout fuse ! ‘ ‘ at Damages f ! he ¢ tt \ H en Tit aca Ne RES MA ata thy At T thon, He ate atthe | ven With done suvcrie drut inlecstatenentcandespressdg | Ne Waa Prosident was ow wd on hie te hele! tine’ Me Gladstone. wil be speediiy euttad | party but at the wor ence, and See eee eee (arte oe cation ee to he krosh og | (nord than anything to tho merctiees blacksuals iainity 2 lbg of Governinent offciale, SHANKS GREELEY TH s The Charges Aeninat Jadge Judge Saya Th: Judge's Let Hofman Brom Yeuterda ANOTHER DISREPUTABLE JUDGE. embers of the Bar Assoointion, with the f the Judic about to prefer charges againat ( concurrence tin, Upon grave. Private and his Will be forwarded An urgent request for pension of the his removal by the nd of this —$__—_—___.__., SHANKS Versus GREELEY. APOLOGIZES CONDUCL TRIBUNE. Lotter to the Judge rs te The Suu aud to Gov, Matters of P al the Judges of the Marine Court of this city. These charges are sald to be founded offences relating to offiotal to the Judge trom jonate. According to re~ port, there has heen for alone thine anon tirt, and: Jawyers practising before tty nett ‘as tend th ha Wri are ar reten time eon the rr. ithority, ton tion, and make his > long & burles adminis as to call Judges to r 0 r the freq ora quently resulted in trouble between himself avd Dis associates on the bench, It is said to be « common thing for him to speak of some of hie sOctALES the moat offensi way In ope court, and his Insults to lawyers or thelr elents are matters of almost daily occurren Namor= ous fostan ire reported whore the Judge has sid, In subst to wlawyor about to try acura be bim, “DP know your lent to bea black. auiard and n a disgrac acter of Jullve Cur ho benoh into disre effort now making isin, the interact of the fame reforin movemont, which ia de Purify other branchos of the judiciary. cerning the private charactor of Judie Curtie {he stortos which aro current, apparently | v au om justice he is supposed to Hite judfotm action ‘han tecen such ent Intervention « his decisions, aud Nas conre- @ scoundrel, and if ror or Dh, = os urtie What the The ry Com nittoe, are o Mt i both his character, and Governor, with in Iminedlate Ru. his office and mong other the reputable Cartia were t of tt ened to ‘Onn od moun. for. publ lent it true to My the bench for to the city and other 1 possibly cant shall decide against hin.” The perhaps, suggest that, after havi vis, the Judge was not i the ‘ease ually, and would re 4 lest a removal of the cass to another court. . «Curtis would refuse ; th would be tl d. und usually decided aa foretold, the ae tl xrieved party being left to obtain, a reversal of r the decision from another Judge. ‘The evider j against Judge Curtis ts such as see ‘ place his derelictions beyond doubt, at a quire the lnmediate attention of the Goverver, bi! WHAT JUDGK CURTIN SAYS, " A SUN reporter called on Judye George M. ' Curtis, in Part fof the Marine Court, yesterday. ; The Judge was hearing a case, but found thine to talk to the reporter, - “ Judge Curtis,” asked the reporter, " have you ' seen the article st Trune i? you 1 fu this morning's “ T have,” replied the Judge bot Ldldn't see Ituntil Teame to court this 1 whe was pointed out to me by a men. ofth € “What have you got to say about It?” tnquired be) the reporter, “ Weil, Il tell you,” be inthe Judge, “thie trouble between the Judges originated some ri tine ago, I refusing to become the tool of a core ¥ rupt and infamous combination that now con- Ay trols the court In the interests of nepotie fe What incurred their especial enmity was my re= ‘ commending to the Legislature the abolition of x the re co system, giving the bar an oppore tunity to sele t their own reforve and putting it beyond the control of any farntly combination: a to take cases from the calendar not strictly ref. i erable according to atatute.” 2 A FAMILY COMMLNATION. tn “What d @ fatully coinb ita ’ 2” Ingut hi tell you ned. “One Judge of this Court hax’ a brother who draws pay ae aus officer, but who dows y duly ae such, Acowin 2 of his was a practitioner before him, and. alno i! referee, Another dade his son, & son-in-law, t a brother-in-law and « partner pravtising bu thi qi Court who also aw referoes. ve 0 y ton in saying | tha pt b| tion exists in the General ‘Term of this ; Court that paralyzes Justion and) slaughters a human rights, That coubination | have fought ' and shall fght to the bitter end. ‘The artelo tte 4 the Tritune was the work of ndastard. No ger man can deny that eis no act of blie or private Ife that shuns st Investization. 1 recety Mr. Shanks of the Pridune, rexrotting Unat sucks an article should have been published wit i giving me portunity to make my staten t Ineonnection with ft. Dam proud to say tha ly respectable members of the bar are t my Friends and well wishors, and that | THE SIYRTERS, ‘ makers of false all davits, and raseuls in the pre: 4 fescion generally, are my inveterate enemie ain not aware that the Mar Asser lation has taker ny #teps in regard to me. FE eonidently at cheerfully awalt their onset, and shall : make an application to the Judiciary Committee to have the matter fully Investicated, [fa oow= ardly assailant is to be permitiod to write away the fame of a publ {about time Ie was perfectly understood, My view f4 that this ‘ art fd elther be abolished, or the to appolut referses talon away frous also the wer vested by law Gen Tern of tie Common ear a rom the orders rade in tandf more that the judiinents i; eral Of the Marie Court tes versing the Audings of the Judges w, and ordering a new trial should not be final, but sub= eet tothe decision of the ¢ ef Comm Pleas. der the present systent litigants deprived of their rights in w court of law, the last sanctuary in whieh i bs supposed liberty a Justice take refuce ‘i "Is that all you ve gotto say, Judge,” inquired the reporter. F “Yes, that's all now," replic latter: “when the proper time cones | "4 While tle reporter was tall | he was interrupted several i who expressed their surp: he Curie ‘| that he should be avers courtesy Lo counsel, One Law in olan order signed, sald that only two Weeks acu 4 ease wan ; sent toareferee under protest of counsel for Doth sides, Judge Curtie's asso late, whom he cuses of WHiting the libel, sat iti ( terday, but the two didn't Ineet GREVLEY DID IN SHANKS'S ANSENCE, New Youn (Cat of Tribun New Yous, WHAT DIK Jutge Geo, M,C Mari Deanste: Lam partteularly grieved this an i {ng to Mad that publication of t ttonee th Bar Association against you Nat ymade fn ' ny abrenee, Without giving You An opportunity tosay anything regarding the tattor. The re orter Who Hi dere to give you : unateary y wish to t Wa, FG. SHANK City Bultor. 1 that in wee of the at which @ Me, Shanke'es re ha the fritune plesenice tt ey he wil THE JUDUY'S LEITH TO Finn st Vuy a Coun ’ New Yoru, A 1 ) Sit: A libel, tagra ' racter, wan hed in the J lay. WU w elled at me. T Webatend 1 pal Nan net tome enel y Met pot the sul a y i Court a F NOERMA ” ri Zz rh t ' ' \ Fudie Shea, thy howd oft ‘ n 1 and hist 1 vt ting oh nisLox bu Vtat W \ t elinth S , or 3 ° Kine A tinued tow 1 \ unwed me for the fread r able paiuteny Fo pecure the liteot Feely ud thivir emmelas Parnnee 4

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