The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-27

"The other item Of SERVICE the procuring of
tuch other facilities as might be consistent
with the usages and interests of the army, Is
open to the same double reading. These faclli-
ueS, whatever they were, may nave been pro-
cured by honest or dishonest Influences.
For these reasons, the defense suggested
must be presented by answer. The theory thSt
the employ ment of the plaintiff was to procure
the illegal cooperation of the military In "a prl-
vate enterprise must be alleged by sworn au-
defendants and the pisintiff' aud. II proven.
would insure the dismissal of the petition with
reprobation to the two parte-. upon the prln-
clple among Others, IN pdrt deiictO, potion est
condHo defendentS. Demurrer overruIed and
leave 10 answer.
beIs of the Court on the question of the plead
iugs, and felt constrained to say that the whole
OF the trade as disclosed In this proceeding, was
not only disgraceful but tends directly 10 dis
grace the country. 1t is the price OF blood"
It appears, from the opinion of Judge
Hoadly, that the firm of Mack Brothers, the
defendants, ground their refusal to pay Jesse
r. Grant his one-fourth of the net profits,
according to their agreement, ON the unlaw-
fulness of the service rendered by their
silent partner. The whole Court were of the
opinion that such unlawfulness would be
bar to his claim, but they said
that the defendants had not proved it by
sworn testimony, and gave them an opportu-
nifty to adduoe such proof. This IS the posi-
ton in which the case stood at the date Of
these proceedings.
Treasury permit to give show of legality to
this cotton speculation, it must have been
procured by the influence or the cOnnivance
of General Grant. There was no other man
in the army to whom Jesse Grant held such
relations as would have made his services
in such a transaction worth one-fourth
of the net profits. The defendants do not
allege that the stipulated service was not
rendered. but that it was not lawful. That
large quantities of cotton were procured is
admitted by Jesse Grant himself by the very
fact of his bringing this suit. Now what
basis had he for a successful speculation
of this kind = What had he to put in as an
equivalent for capital What was it in his
power to do to entitle him to one-fourth of the
net profits without risking dollar of his own
money, although the enterprise was full of
hazard There can be but one answer; the
fund on which he traded was his relationship
to General Grant. What the Cincinnati firm
agreed to pay him for, was his supposed in
fuence with his son. Their expectations
were not disappointed; but failing in that
kind of honor which prevails among thieves
they sneaked out of their engagement because
the stipulated service was Illegal
This transaction suggests some very painful
inquiries. Jesse Grant being selfconvicted OF
trading on his sons influence in one cotton
speculation, how can it be known that he has
not done the same thing, with equal claims to
pIOht, IL many OGuSThl as uo udu du 6V viva"
lent for capital, he could as easily be silent
partner in twenty such speoulations as in one.
The extent of his partners transactions must
have been limited by the amount of their CAPT
tai, or by the amount they were willing to
risk. But Jesse Grant, who risked nothing,
was under no such limitation in working the
rich placer which he discovered within the mill
tary lines of his son. His other partners may
have kept the honor of thieves, so that as
little is known of their transactions as would
have been known of this one, if the firm OF
Mack Brothers had stood by their bargain.
Jesse Grant long ago gave up the tannery at
Galena, and changed his residence to Coving-
ton, Kentucky, aoonvenient point for speoula-
tions like the one which has been exposed.
1t seems that he made no money by this cot
ton speculation; did he gain the means of re-
firing from the tanning business by others
Even if Treasury permits were in some cases
procured, by whose influence, other than his
sons, could Jesse Grant have procured them
What, besides this relationship, could have
rendered his services so very valuable that
sharp business men deemed it for their inte-
rest to pay for them at SO high rate ? We
look to the Republican press for answers.