Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-05

use Of the peoples money.
And specific interrogations are put %
Ogden, Allen and the Mayor.
We aek, how many checks have been
issued? How many in payment OF debts,
and how many to the Finance Committee!
How many checks this committee or
these committees have sold or hyPotheca-
ted, and at what rate?
Are these questions that should be an
sweTed? Are they not eminsntly proper
in court Of Chancery? Is not an I'M
mediate response q right which any
sutton might expect and demand?
How have these pertinent snd pregnant
questions been answered? just as the
question about the bonds is.
Thesanswer il, that such troublesome
| questions cannot be answered. Can't do
the labor. Will make a showing if po-
| litely called on. No answer is given as to
how many or what amount Of checks has
been issued to the Finance Committee. Il
is said that since September Of this year,
90 checks have been sold by this commit
lee, that checks have been hypothetical,
| no agreement TO take usury, bat the ques-
ton how many checks we're hyPothecated
and how much money was received, Mr..
AA0g4 anu MI Allcu PDoANANCAy ANt17o ~
answer, and Mr.. Ogden and the bank de.
cline 70 answer al all.
If this case was in court instead of be-
ing at chancery, should demand an an
sWer to these interrogatious, and II not an
swered forthwith, should move to have
the defendants imprisoned for contempt.
The answer sets up that committee e1-
amined the books committee of citizens
Judge WhitWor.h, Judge Glenn and
Chssiham-and this report Is parAdsd as
justification. This is unfortunate tor the
defendant. This report shows that S4o, 600
Of eheeks Went into the hands Of The FL
nance Committee, and that the parties pos
itiveIy refused to show what had been
done with them, or what vas got for them.
of S63, 900, discount on checks sold By the
Finance Committee; this report shows
that the parties refused 20 make q showing
until Matt. Browns administration made
showing; thereupOn the Finance Commit
tee of that administration offered 10 aP-
point q committee to see who was IN the
wrong this was declined. The CORES
pondence, as we'll as the full report referred
to in the answer, is here shown.
Now, how does the case stand? These
former committees receive large sums from
the sale and hypOrhecAtiOn of bonds and
checks, they fail to make any report;
committee Of gentlemen go and ask them
what they have done with SIS 600 Of cheeks
what discount Wss-how much was re-
ceiVed on them-they answer we will tell
you when the Matt Brown administration
tell what they did. A committee 10 at
once proposed by the latter, they say DO,
We have done all we are going to do. A
bill is filed, and they are asked to tell
upon oath how many checks they got and
how much money they received upon the
checks, and they say 10 the answer that
they will not tell, asd we are told by
counsel vehemsntly, that this Is political
lawsuit; that people had better have some.
sense and be quief, and not butt out their
brains like goats.
When We come to a high Court Of
Chancesy snd ask for the poor boon OF
knowing what became Of our money when
we ask in the name of right and justice
that we be protected from inevitable bank
RIPLEY and ruin, We are told by our
friends, that we must not make fools OF
ourselves that we ought to have some
sense and quietly submit to whatever
may come And we are told We ought
not TO be heard in court; that We are
simply Waring on the franchise law, and
that we ought, as good citizens, to keep
out Of court Sir, we are not here to
complain of the franchise law, and to have
it thrown at us in the courthouse 10 IN
kind. Il is true We are helpless, but this
| heIplessness il the reason why Cha1cery
Court will be inclined to protect Us and
see that we are not robbed this il all We
| ask.
At the conclusion Of the argument, bis
Honor, Judge Shakfeford, announced
that he would render his opinion on Mon
day morning at 10 O'CLOCK, when the court
| adjourned.