Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-03
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 Respectfully ,-your plJ't ser't, - JAMES FENNELL, President, ~
 Br. Bank Ala. alDecaiur.
 P, S.--In answer to query ofthe. comnitse wLeiher Mir. Rice had any interest in tIle bill of S24O0, di,coumed7 Mir. Rice stated that if dis cuu Ile he would be enabled lU Ise poriiun ensugh s.:I JAMES FENNELL.
 Letter from Oss ef the Bank Con,n,issioiers .-' JOHN B. HoGAN, Esq. :,a- -- -- 7, --i
 Chairman State Bank, Committee;
 | SiR--ln answer to tlle imerrpgatory contained in tI,e resolution copy. of which received, reply, that the persos diluted to in the report o the Com -missonefs appointed to examine the Decatur bank, we're Gen. Garrett of Cherokee, and Mir 5. Rice of 'ralladegf. .f' -t '- ~'
 Gen. Garrett visited Decatur during 1he present year. to seek some acconlno sations from the Bank and being unwe his arrlyal,- aid unable To leave his ro0ni, he invited different members of the board of dire :tors to bin and make his business known to them. In order to further his wishes, the cUills- siouers lrarned, that he made han, promises tU cure tle directors in any iuture elections, by his in
 uei,ce and that Df his friends m the legislature, pro ,ided his paper was purchased and tue contrary, if it should be rejected that he woHld oppose them with his weight and that of hs friends, if they should again be candidates for election, and that lie .woald l also have the bank removed &c. That finally when his paper rejected. he descended 10 personal 1 abuse of two members of the board. In relation to Mir. Rice of Talladega, the. .conlmis sioners learnt, that having been unsuccessful ap plication for accommodation al the bank at Hunts. vill,, he made effort of the kind at Decatur
 He stated of the directors at that bank. thai he had been rejected at Huntsville and that he woule use his efforts to have the bank removed from tia place; that he had been opposed to the bank at De catur, but that if the directors would afford hm his friends such accommodations they wished, hi, ttftd4 l.9od that Mr. Rice offered the board df directors
 'iderll,e amount of paper,, all of which was re
 teh; that at hls stroug recolnlendatior and sober
 Fu the boatd. were finally i,daced b pufclsse - iob oasssdiss.as tis he and Mr Deag lass they did, and ihe b w,,s spdschesed The eo,,,d.s soners al.o ierhe thal si.s bill was returned iron New Orle4ns. protested, and .hat one oi ihe ban agents was sent ta Talladega to make enquiries i relation to it's collection; and that he reported tha there was responsible person the bill, excel MT, Rice, and that the whole amount oi paper ofere by hm, was of this character, The commissioner also learued that Mir. Rice has subsequently, trtns
 erred his property, and ta, the transactions kel to be am entire loss to the bank.
 An agent WAS directed to inquire into the condito of the principals, endorxrs and acceptors the bill
 and paper offered by Gen. Garrett he has repprte thai there was not an individual apoiig them, tl,a was not ins0lyent,. l.
 The present deponeu believes, from the best ( l bis recollection that ds comprises the amount the testimony eicited by the board of comin sionef at their late investigation at Decatur, which respectfully submitted. :. k. FENNER.
 Tuscaloosa, Nov. A, 1S41.
 Mir. RICE, one of the gentlemen referred to in th
 letters of the President and rose in hi place. and went into full explanation of his conduct
 The ocuar remarks he had used in presence of som ofte directors ql the bra,r bank at Decatur, reatv to his friendship or'ennlE, as their accommodation to him and his friends, night deerniDe, procede
 from that iiibt oi humourand playfulness, which d l who knew him, were iu aware was cl,aracteristi with him. He had dat.no time sought to influence lh board by improper ipei,ns W h regard to the transe of his property, he admiaed that tie grea,er part
 il WAS under deed of tIust. for the proection Q some of his securities; but there tha
 enough to pay. avery deti he owed: He also com
 nened freely the corse of the officers of the bank and the evidence they had furnished of their. ow
 curruption. One fact particularly, in relation to tn
 act of Feb 3, l339, whri limited the .conipsnsatio
 of the bank attorney i0D0 per annuIn; that tn, directors took an oath perform their duties accord
 ing to law, ,apd by the coni iissioner's report it wal
 shown that they had albatd the attorney S250O This he said, might le tlkmpted To be justified ol the ground of necessity anl the amount of labor i'm posed the attorney ht le contenled that necessit never caused honest mel ts vl0lat, their Oaths
 | M-..R pointad ont tls iiconsIstency' betweei several stateiDents of the lfesiient of the bank an, appaaled to the House as ' what degree of predi ought to he given to them. issue had been forme, i between that officer and hinself, which he was wl ling meet; at the preseii time, however; he lhat l been taken by surprise, an was. not prepared witt facts and argunants to do nlself justice before ths country. He regarded thd attack made orr him b, the directors, as intended put him out of their way l to destroy what little character he had 1t mode of revenge which tlty had selected, flor his uni form hostility their bark, Hls was not the. first case where islander mad teen Tssor,sd sa, i order te crush opposition. He submitted his.conduct to tn. seperest scrutiny, his would 'cheerfuy abide 'aa, disposition tbe House might make. .of tue subject ' )Phe reporter has aos 'sYepied te follow Mr.. Rcs in his remarks: imsIauci ss ,ttsy wore dsfsnsive aud appDied more to indiyuai feeling than drual ar gument, the repotter has erred any further sketch lest he might weaken the impression made on thost | who. heard their deliysryl
 Mir. HOGAN had con,ied'with the instructions o the House, by obtainingtie names alluded to in th, report of the bank coIpmssoners.- His .committe, had nothing further fo iio with the gentlemen iron Talladega or any alleged frauds. He moved to reie the letters to the specisl committee bank Gaude Mir. SMITH ofI. oberved that itwas not the frs time he had risen to tale part in the transactions the Decatur bank. Htwas impelled, by conscien tious feeling of duty, tdsay word in relation to thu course of that nstituti, ,whch 1t seemed had under taken, the last resor, 10 destroy tue character those who stood in it's Way This was not the irs instance where the bark u,d attempted run rough sLpd, oyer men for laring to expose it's misman E committee of the legislature examined it, in their re pore, how abusive itblcame; and such had eyer bee the case with those WI, wish hide corruption. II believed tere was sohething hidden ip that tfansac ton which had not male it's appearance the House The instance cited by the gensleman from TaIadeg; is not the first wheretbe directors have tramplcd up on the laws. It was well known that at the sessio of I840 the roprers of tho rail road applied to tn legsiature for an exension of ten years, their de
 due tLe Decatur bank, which was refused but w now find by the repo't ot the copmis ssioners that suc tirpe has been allowed, Scarcey had tho seats 0 the meaters of the legislature grown cold, before tn
 bank acted contraryto it's determinations.
 MT. s. continued his remarks, and enumerate several transactions Avrich ip his opinion, prove thai the directors 0fthe bank were nor the most cir .cunspect or upright class of men,. He mentioned loan of $200 which had been made to A. O. Hofne former pembar ofthe' legislature from Lauderdale and also the adHlissioR of the President of the ian yesterday that Home was not ndebted $lO0.. II reviewed several transactions of the bank, and lls noticed tue attack which the directors had made o
 the eir,raotero of Mir. Nice. and said that they iia confirmed what had been long suspected,' that the, had been using the funds of the bank retain its o cation at Decatur. file wished general .inyeslga tion to be had of the frauds of the bank-that thu crimes coinmmittcd around ii might be dragged be Tore the public, and concluded by stating that thos whom the gods intended to destroy, the, first mad mad; l.I -. =
 Mr. WYNN. felt rcalled.upon, by the general cen sure which had been cast pn the directors. to stat that his ntyman, James C Malone, who was en, of the board, maintained ahgh ahd honorable char acter, far above reprOach. ..- '-.s., tey ' ..1. Mr, STHopE addressed the House at considerabli Jength in dalencs 1f thu Direetbrs of the Bank wh. had been so harshH treated by snlembeIB,9 [Mr