New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-02
cosroFrHE AITORNEY-GENERADS OFFICE

MR. FAIRCHILD TO SENATOR CONKLING IN REPLY TO
THE NINTH RESOLUTION IN THE ROCHESTER,
PLATFORM.
ALBANY, Oct. 1.-AttOrney-General Fairchild
has written letter TO Senator COnkng III reply TO the
ninth resolution of the Republican Platform adopted at
Rochester for which holds the Senator responsible
chairman of the committee who prepared It, The resoiu-
ton is as follows:
The official report present Attorney General made n
Sc besides its regular costs expended nearly $4,000
prosecutions III wch NOT one s Ve9
punished. not one dollar Recovered ana 40 lvs9i VI sy n
made to record which merits plDG r.DaAe and
demands trust DO placed IN more capable anu success
fui hands
MT FAirohd says "The statements of facts contained
in these words false Further were TIE facts as
ed 10 be therein stated as true. they false the
inference that is designed shall be drawn IRON them
would still be false malicously false. That inference
hing that the present AtorneyGeneral has incurred
,d resuousble for tho expenditure Of this whole
Of nearly 100000"
Tho expenses incurred by the State for expenses
at law for the two years. ending December 81 1876, was
s3o OO5 10 but only $1,000 was paid TO counsel re-
tanned by the present Acknowledgement, and not more
Than of expense incurred by the present At
for counsel fees experts fees and expen
SEES Of all kinds conducting litiGatons and prosscu
TONS the most complicated and difficult that the state
has ever been engaged in Mr.. Fairehid enuInerates
many instances in which sums have been expended
which swell the aggregate cited III the resolution MOST
Of
Attorney General Champlain, Attorney General Pratt
or the state Prison Inspectors upon the appointment
Of Governor DIX and for which special appropriations
were made by the Legislature. Among these are
To William j. Hadley and N. b. HOxse, $2,572 % for
costs brought by Attorney ChauHih
and when the had decided were not well brought
to the Hon Henry j. Scudder $1,000 Tor counsel Ies III
two suits In United states Courts to ascertain he sou
dairy between New-YOrK and Connecticut to the Hon
f. Hughett of Auburn, 5000 Tor service. before Ger
tain commissioners appointed by resodtion Oh tne
LEGISLATURE relative to prise? a dS az M1 nIqrn a 70
ing &c Once in 1870 in certain proceedings con
nected with the Blngaamt9n neol"te A sssid
TO Daniel Ketehum, S5l2s H. for costs recovered III
he scIinn of People agt Weare C. Llttio 10 the non
Henry smith. OF this ety. sSoVo TOT a
the trial OF Charles H. phelps the deiaueI ~ t1e Satd
Treasurers Office Mi. siIn lrhr US also maid 10 MIR
Smith ~ 600 for assisting tao District Attorney OF Cay
uga County. upon the ria OF I 81 900 for services
"a counsel retained BY Attorney ueheral rIaV.,
line District Attorney OF SUFFOLK CVun''' ia 'Ho so'
These and other cases noted by Mr. Farchhd TO
show tho alsliy OF the ntsIueu t Sttorney1iene-
.merits public rebuke, because on tneSe on
He also cites number OF cases 10 sn1 coversd1 ~
statement tnat no one dollar mas Oeen Ic0"'0ie" 10
eqaay n NE expenditures for expenses OF myself
% Drnuy at the Pougnkeepse General Term Oh tne gu
d. 1ri i'm the case People rel, Gardner ast.
Honxins where obtained decision "Hcn sa,Vu =,
ssnrv nearly $4,000. Another small pay iDcht
"a in the csseOf People ag George H. pHtOi 90
~ of
~ Stata Tine Attorney General brought TWO ACTIONS
iDSf him [ procured his arrest trlen tho cas- az
d.na and recovered the state netIy stOOoo loi.
,er ia m an action against the County lIeasuIsl
~ eseIaer County, the result OF winch tuo
oloc al once recovered nearly SlOoOoo III an o
siT't the County Treasurer OF OtseSo county tie
% recovered over 900. la the case Oh ihr Ioople
o. Henry Manu. Treasurer Of Saratoga County ,Ae
& recoyrred over $4,000. In the case Oh 1he Ieo
ME 'gf George ID. LORD, inc ss,o t, as e-t ~
neary 10000" la the case OF Inc feope Az hS,
~ saie has been saved nearly SIooo, anu aVout
SON. SON vear. interest thereon, retainer was rae 70
you A. Oney in the OF the Ieope aBt, bahh VI
1,I America in which the people nave reeo'oreuA
Judgment Of over S6O,ooO. r In tia Conrt ~ Ap-
~ Nr Lnirchld SAYS he Is cDutedtO no circuit they
peais, All except that he has caused thch 70 nc
are Tor mail lie comments that DiIse ahd ai ~
pr ,iiic oifcer" Attorney General fancniu, ioa
LUZ D them and claims that no blame shou s.td i
VI ~, tcs IN they fail through stpulatohs ior no
no no I Was not responsible ne adds enere mi
no =, the peOpic ia fact that under tHe plsscnI
return Genrrai over 81 100000 has Deeh anu wiz
~ 80 to the Treasury OF the CITY OF Sc" vrA' "no'
po pasred that mad Deeu stolen from the cit!' - A.,
~ caucuson Mr.. Farcblld expresses the nope ae
~ ConNiue was personally respohrDlo ior tnv
Snayiou resolution, but says tDai nc naai ' ~
1 ~ nm tne v O Dis which nj Rochester 50
,ppepnyced predecessor In the Attorney ~ .nt
. Sir Won have not your honors W ~
ing your opp0nents