The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-03
NATURALIZATION
The Attempt to Expose the Busi'
ness in the Supreme Court
Practically Defeated.
The List Cannot be Completed
Until the End of October.
Another Case Of Mutual
Vouchers.

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who have been naturalized In the supreme
Court, which we present below, is very measl G.
,odov the reason for which will appear On
"wednesday afternoon our reporters were per
,,ttted In examine the records, In accordance
with the order of Judge SharsWood' lor Vnree
hours and were able TO obtain the names anu
vouchers of 754 OF the new citieZns oh Ihurs
dav afternoon this time was cut down 10 one
hour and a half, and three OF the reporters
who were detailed for the work were re-
fused permission TO engage in 1t, only four
being allowed to do so. BY reason OF this we
were able yesterday to publish only 656 name
and vouchers. - :,
Yesterday afternoon three reporters were de
tailed for the work. Several bundles OF peIl
lions were placed in their hands by the CLERK
In the Prothonotsry's office who had oeen pre-
sent before, and the work commenced. In
few minutes a man entered the room and de
clared that the manner in which the work was
being done was IAN outrage" He then
left saving that he would see about
itn Returning in rev minutes
he took possession of the documents, declaring
that only one could be examined at time, that
he himself must open 1t and reao the names
off and that then, IL any of our reporters wished
to see the names, the paper would be placed In
their hands for that purpose; but tnat. under no
circumstances could more than one document De
through his hands.
In this way the examination proceeded for
time at the rate of less than one paper per
minute. If the work were continued In this
way not more than $50 names per day could be
obtained, which would give but 900 per week.
and the l3th OF October, the day OF the election
xUoula be upon us by the time 1850 names. in
addition to those already published, could be
obtained This would give TO the public only
266O in all, whereas there are thousands
nobody knows how many, save the De-
Yno,ratic Naturalization Com1ntttee-heaped
up in the Prothonotary's office. The report has
gained currency that the 1910 heretofore pub
lished by us comprise the total work OF the
Court for the days from September l5 to Sep
tember "a This is an error, as no one day is
probably complete. nor can any one
day be given complete until the entire records
of the Court have been examined
When 1t was seen that all efforts on our part
IN obtain the com plete list for publication
hefore the election would be frustrated, we
objected to continuing the work In this way.
and thereupon the person VINO mad taken pos
session OF the papers declared that he was
acting under special instructions from Judge
Sharswood, and would remove the documents
IL we made any further bJection. Such OBJ
iection was made and the documents were
accordingly taken from the Supreme
co,,rt room. We then appealed to
Iomes Ross Suowden, the Prothono-
tsry, who stated that he knew ne;Iiuy
~ the character of the instructions
given to the Crier of the Court by Judge Shsrs-
mood bnt would himself consult the Judge on
tho following day and obtain from him specific
instructions in writing as to how the work was
tn be conducted. Wishing to make as much
progress as possible, we then expressed our
Willingness to continue the examination during
the remainder OF the afternoon as IL mad been
proceeding, but the Crier had turned the key
on the papers and left for parts unknown.
We have detailed these circumstances at
length, in order that the public may know how
our efforts have been defeated, and how 1t viii
he impossible, unless change is made, to com
plete the list before election, and by means o
il TO bring some Of these wholesale perjurers TO
justice,
More Mutual Vouchers.
We have already noticed the case in which
Henry Hall and Henry Ernst acted as vouchers
for each other. A still more glarlng case Is
given to-day. The lists below show that on the
for Christian Gosh, Christian Schlstterer
and John sehmitt. An examination of the
documents dated September 49, had just COM
menced when our labors were brought to a
close yesterday. But among the first papers of
that date on which we laid hands was one
showing that Louis Gosh himself then applied
for naturalization, and that Christian Gosh
acted as his voucherl
The Professional Vouchers.
The following is a summary of the work OF
the professional vouchers, including the cases
in which they appear below:-
No OF