The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-13

ulent affidavits, petitions and orders The
salute of lmaitafions covered, with its pro-
| tecsion, all crimes committed more than three
Years prior W the lindsng Of the indictment,
Which was returned into ceart May %, 1882
The jury could not render verdict&& guilty
against the defendants for anything done
prior to May 20, 1879 If convicted it must
be for what had been done since that date.
Judge Wylie here commented upon.the at
tacks made upon the sufficiency of the in
dictment He reviewed the evidence touch
ing the beginning of the combination. ''Sen-
ator Dorsey said he, seemed to exert
controlling influence over everybody in that
business. He corrected their estimates and
changed their bids Being in the senate, he
would not become contractor. So Miner
was brought here, and, with Peck AMI
John Dorsey, secured some $50 routes.
Bidding separately they were mu-
tually interested in the bids
Here was a community of interest. Although
not a bidder Senator Dorsey seemed to be
the most active man not only in preparing
the bids, but in carrying out the contracts
II he had sinister and unlawful purpose, he
was as guilty as if he had contract 1t was
a matter of no consequence why he did
these things-whether from love for his
brother and brother-in-law, or from
self-interest There was evidence what
Miner, Vale and John Dorsey did during
the succeeding period 1t was for the
Jury to say whether they had a corrupt pur
pose If they were satisfied that it was a
fraudulent combination, then that made out
its character anterior to the period fixed by the
statute of limitations. Immediately upon s.
W. Dorseys retirement from the senate, ne
took an active interest in the business. An en-
tirely new organization was effected. The
jury must determine whether. Peck and John
W Dorsey, who then stepped out, were
men of straw and S. w. Dorsey the sub
stance The government claimed that Peck
and John Dorsey still remained in the com
bination because they continued to make af
fidavits They held contracts in their own
names. s. W Dorsey and Vale, who had
no contracts in their names, were unable to
make affidavits, and the old parties remained
in for the purpose of carrying on the business.
If it was lawful business, then it was all
right If Peck and John Dorsey knew it
to be an unlawful combination with a crimi-
nal purpose, yet agreed to further its objects,
then their going out did not retire them from
pend upon the contracts A person might
remain in the conspiracy although he had
parted with his interest in the contracts The
| Indictment so alleged but that was danger
Gus averment, and was regarded as surplus
age If fact and evidence were to the con
trary, then everything depended upon
| the character of the combination
at that day before the goth OF
May 1879 Whether unlawful or not, if the
| combination ceased after the Goth of May, 1879.
| there was no evidence of it, and in the absence
of any proof Of its dissolution the jury wo9ld
| have the right to presume that the CrgaLiza
ton formed April, 70, continued after the
| statute of limitations ceased to protect. The
| Jury must judge of the character of the asso-
citation after that time by its antecedent his
| tory. but it was not enough to find the exist
| ence of conspiracy They must find an overt
| act committed by some one Of the defend
ants after the Goth of May, 1879 A difficulty
arose at that point Most of the alleges
| fraudulent petitions and they bore that APP
pearance upon their faces were filed before
| the date spoken of On route No. 81, l49 a
| false petition was charged to have been filed
| July 10, 1879, but the evidence was that it
| was filed April s. 1879, and it seemed that ii
was barred by the statute But here another
question arose: whether the parties interested
| in procuring the order in using the false Pc
tition filed April 3, 1879 to secure the
order of July 10, 1879, had not committed an
act in pursuance of conspiracy There was a
| statute bearing on that subject, and he should
hold to the proposition that party awaiting
| himself of false paper to secure an order on
certain day would not be protected by the
| fact that it had been filed before that dav y
The judge held the indictment to be sufficient
Judge Wylie concluded his charge, aud al
| 345 the jury retired
| gN0TE.-Some of the most important evi
dence in the case related to occurrences
previous 20 May 30 1871
THE MEN WHO HOLD The BONDS.
The seu.i-annual payment of interest OF
| registered United States bonds, which occurs
in January and June is now being made
While it is very difficult to obtain exact in
formation as to the largest receivers of in
terest from this class of United States bonds
| yet, Ike almost anything else here, it can bt
had if one wants il badly enough This veal
the largest single bondholder the treasury de
partment knows is Mr.. Vanderbilt, who vii
receive the interest on So, 0O0Go0 \ yeal
ago he had $50, 000, 900, but he has disposed Of
SIS, 900 900 for some purpose.
The next largest owner is Mrs. A. I. Stew
art, who has about S30,0oo,000. As some o
hers are coupon bonds, the amount ct bel
holding can not exactly be told Ten year
age mr.. A. T. Stewart had S40,000,000 il
bonds, the most of them being skies, Mr.
Gould has SIS 000, 900 in registered bonds, ant
a large number Of coupon bonds, which Ii,
keeps &c use as collaterals in Wall stree
) when he needs large sums of money \ Cali
fornia millionaire, Mr. Flood, is the mex
largest holder He has $f5,000.on0 Then
there is an estate in Boston and three or faul
persons in New York who have each $4,000,
000 and lady in New York-unmarried
TOBIAS S, 100000 The estate of Moses Tay
Tor, IN New York, has 5000, 900, and d. o
Mills, Whitelaw Reds father-in-law, In
81, 600 900
On the ether side of the water American
securities are very popular, and are preferre,
to those of other nations because the rlNe O
interest is higher than that paid by any othe
great power. The house of the Rothschild
holds nearly one-quarter of Americas Who'll
bonded debt, as, including all the bankers o
that name, they have S40o,OO0,o00. Barol
Leopold and Sir Nathan Meyer De Rothschilj
! each owns $50 600, 900, and the head of tn
Vienna house has s25 900, 900 in his own right
Lady Hannah De Rothschild, who marie.
the Earl of Rosebe1y year or two age
brought to her really impoverished husban
go, 900 900 in American four and-a-halfs.
COMMISSION WITHHELD.
. The president has ordered the secretary O
the treasury to withhold the commission o
W. S. Furay, to be collector of interna
revenue for the Seventh district of Ohio
KING WILLIAM II,