, 1874-02-17
MIR. Reed Wanted Thursday, March
8, Sot as tho Day for
Trial,
Mr.. SWEET Claimed that This Case
Should Be Treated Like
Any Other.
But tho States Attorney Car
ried His Point.
The Motion to Quash the New Indictment
for Perjury Win Be Argued
Monday.

Tho Gage case came up again in tho Crinlina
Court yesterday morning, in order TINT dn,
might DO Aot for Lis trial undor tho indictment
for fai!ng to pay over tho nouoy. Tho court
room was crowded, and tho proceedings woro at.
tcntivoly watched. Mr. Gago waa prcsout, 81
WIS Alr. swctt, Of Ills counsel. Mr. Doxtor having
gono to Springfield. Following is full ropor
Of what took place:
aR. REED WANTS TO KNOW.
B1r. Rced-If the Court please. It WAS ar
ranged, laat Friday, TINT aon,o further actiot
should bo taken in tho oasea against Mr.. Gage
this morning, nnd as 500 Mr. Bwott is here, i
would like to know what Ae proposes to 10.
desire that q plea be ontered to tho Indictment
for failing to pay oyor, and | want to know what
ho Intends doing about tho perjury Indictment
NOT GUILTY.
Mr.. Swett--If tho Court please. In tho caae
which tho Btate's Attorney Inns called up thit
morning. dosiro TO entor plea of not guilty tt
the Indictment for not paying over, mud n mo,
tion to quash the new perjury indictment, found
whilo the fornor ono was hold undor adyiseulent
by tho Court. And, in reference to tho disposi.
tion OF tho cases, propose tint tho motion to
quash bo argued ono weok from tl!s morning,
aud that tho trial OF tho Indictment for not pny
Hooms to mo
TIE EXTRAORDINARY ZEAL
with which this case hns BEEN prosecuted, nn1
tho extraordinary haste with whicl. tho most I'M
porsnnt and tho greatest questions have boon
crowded for argument, 1ustlies the Court III ro-
fusing any longer to make thin casp all e1cop-
ton, anG authorizes your Honor to consider it
simply as cAse in court, aud to gvo Nfr. Gage
tho Hamc treatment poor mum without property
would have. flint IL all TIC nsk.
HCANTY TIME ALLOWED.
between tho alleged 1ofalcation OF MIR. Gago
md tho finding Of tho indictment, nettllor Mr.
Do1tor nor myself were hts counsel; therefore,
when tho caee was called, neither ho nor l had
ton. THO Court gayo us about ono week in
which to elect tho course we would pursue.
Aftor tho expiration Of TINT timc, ne entered
motions to .quash both indictments, and tho
questions being not technical ind familiar, but,
~ all partics will conccdo. most grave in charac
tor os we'll as new. tho Court gave US simply oio
week in which to prepare our arguments. Both
Of us bcing engagod in actuni trials during
oil the timo, and separated from oacl other, our
preparations were Incomplete, a,,d We tioter-
mined, after the oral diHcuBsion to write out aud
print ollr arguments, hoping thus to present our
viows moro correctly and clearly. and week was
given BY tho Court for that purpose.
PRESSURE OF WORK,
During tint week was engaged In q trial III
Judge Booths room, allt, to keep my engage
ment with Judge Kogers ,sas obliged 10 be at
my work at o'clock evory. morning, writing,
until ID oolock ii the forenoon, and then to IT.
tend court in a room ventilated on an nlleY and
low down to the ground, and whore tho caEe was
kout running all day, the air being as foul as
" stat t, in tho middle deck Of aavo.p or tat
Us court adjourned I commenced my
work on nlr. Gagos caso again, aud
continued ut It until II or ii o'clock.
This I did every day during the week,
aud complied with tho rule, and. although sick
not die. Now respectfully submit, being ill.,
snred, TINT for any Court to drive man TINT
way, is fraud upon tho lifo insurance company,
mud insist that. i'll this caao, there is NOT reason
is defending Mr. uage. expect to die die; with S tho
harness OF my profession on, but want to have
more than ono winter for tho work. Tho case Of
Mr.. Gage, when viewed from tho consideration
Of such facts ~ aro matter OF public history in
this city, proaouts
TWO SINGULAR FEATURES.
Ii lis relations With tho city are closed up with
ordinary prudence, tho city, after getting It's own
ncuoy to the last dollar, will make out OF his
labor $3.50 900. 1u other words, after atl is done
llr. Gage will have been ;150, ,0d0 better Treas.
urer than anobody elso over was.
THE INTEREST QUESTION.
This arises from the following history, which
III generally known: Tho City Charter in 1868
required that tho city authorities should furnish
Treasurer was required to keep them there, aud
pay over tho funds promptly or be removed from
oico; and II he embeZzlcd tho funds or used
the1n ho and all the Persons collutling with him
wcro to lie sent to the PoMteutiary. 1n 1860
tue loauing Of Rmonoys was authorized by
public law. but tho Common Council waa tho
party designated tho authority to direct wllero
tho money should he thus loaued. Mr.. Gage
was elected III 1860, mud asked the Council 10
discharge its duty il this regard, and to desig-
nate tho place where ho should loan the money.
Tho Council, as appears by its records. sail III
substance: +" We will not designate whore you
may loan tho money, boca,,Be, il tho money Is
loaned BY our direction, aud is lost, the city will
lose IT." therefore the bond of Mr. dago was,
by resolution Of tho Council, increased from
s400000 tho usual bond, to %, soc, 900, 30 as to
cover al! tile money he might ever hare Of one
time in Lis hands and he was required for this
wns told BY the Council, having thus given an
Indemnity to do what ho thought best with tho
money, that they would rely upon tue bond
which they Lad executed for its return. He did
do What ho thought best.
L. prosperous p times, ho made for tile city
sl6o, ,0a0: THO Mayor, in his annual message,
praised him, tho prsss Of The city commonded
hia fidelity, mud although aftos the first two
years o1 otilco lo again uHkoa the Council to DO
asked they would direct wllero tho money Should
be placed, tlioy again declined for tho sAno old
reason, to glyo Instructions whatoyer, but told
him TO do what he thought baat with the fund.-,
gnd that they would hold Lis bond w an In
-NNANeAA~J
THE FiNB AND TIE rAN10
and the loss. or million III tho Treasury
oanoa by Mr.. Gngc. ho succeeded in calling il.
half million, And paid 1t into tho Treasury +;
:l60 o00 waB IN the suspended city bas,ks. aud
e360,o 900 Or theroaboutH unavailable epowlere.
NOW, III tllla atato OF tho oaau, 1t wng certainly
Tor tho city to repudiato all tl,cso loaua aud Bay
=" want my property" or to accept them all as
90 no entirely Il dig neither kept the Sl6o
TINT was, collected in from tho 1oans. It
fepndiated all tho bad dobts dir. Gago I,all
nlado, oven including those Of tho suspended
CITY bnnks, and to cover the ontiro amount not
pald oyor, afor Keeping the intcrost, took from
hlr: Gago asl tho property ho han III tile world,
which amounted, AZ Tic agents Ut lilo city say
by tllcir appraisemont, 10 over 5000 900 at panic
prices. Now, oil tl!eAo faet. Aso notorious III
Ills city; but notwithstanding, ~ soon as tue |
last dollar was drained from Mr. Gage, lo was |
indicted for oyery Imaginable phaso which hH |
alfonso would preBons, and hin case haH been |
rushed through with unprecedented AaBto.
FAIR TREATMENT Asked.
do not coll attention to these, facts, we'll |