Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-06
HOME HAPPENINGS.
CLEVELAND DESTROYS OF NO
DISPLAY.
Irregularities in the Treasury De-
partment-Business Failures
The Virginia Plague.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uN1oN !
The Huntington Suit.

The Huntington Suit.
New YORK, December 5th.-In the Hunt
! ington suit yesterday the testimony given
was all in the form of depositions, chiefly
cumulative and corroborative of that of
the preceding days. William E. Brown
testified that the lump sum agreed upon in
the settlement of the Lombard suit was
$3.50, GOO All the stock that came into the
| hands of the Contract and Finance Com
pany was divided between Huntington,
| Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins. The de-
position of Charles Crocker, taken by
commission, was read by Choate. Crocker
deposed that he knew nothing about the
records of the Contract and Finance Com
pany, or what became of them after the
company was wound up. Crocker said
Huntington had no authority to buy stock
| in Joint col.tract; knew nothing of the pur-
chase of stock of the plaintiff until after it
was made. The highest price paid for stock
by him or Hopkins and Stanford was, so far
as he knew, par The deposition of Leland
Stanford was next offered. He said when
| VIM. H. Aspinwall visited California in
| 1870, he visited his office III San Francisco
Stanford said Aspinwall told him he had
sold his stock to Huntington did not tell
him of any conditions attaching to the sale
| OF IlldJ IL WAS W UG CdllGSllGt at Ills piedS-
ure Sanford had never heard of any over
issue of stock of the Central Pacific Com
pany of California; did not believe there
| had ever been any over issue. The deposi-
ton explained at great length the negotia-
tions between Stanford and Lombard,
which ended in the purchase of the Lom-
bard stock at $400 share. Stanford
claimed that the money was paid
to compromise a blackmailing suit
which was threatened, and which,
if it had been made public, would
have destroyed the credit of the Cen
tral Pacific Company. 1t was not in any
nominally paid could not be taken as the
actual price of Central Pacific stock. Choate
put in evidence the Brannan complaint
against Huntington, Stanford, Crocker and
Hopkins, after the reading of which and
portions of the depositions of G. Frank
Smith and Moses G. Cobb, of San Francisco.
in reference to the compromise Of the Bran
nan suit, Choate rested his case. The re-
mainder of the session of the Court was
occupied by Conkling, who moved to dis
miss the complaint, made long argument
in support of the motion, insisted, as a we'll
settled point in law, that after Stewart had
made the demand on Huntington for his
stock, and Huntington refused to re-
turn it, the contract was ended, and
Stewards only proper remedy was a
suit to recover damages for the
conversion of his stock. He had no longer
the right to elect to demand the highest
price paid for the stock by anybody to any
body. Conkling also claimed that it was
! shown by the testimony that Stewards
stock was not of the first issue of S, 500
600, but of the S20,000,000 issue; that the
| Lombard stock, which was taken by de-
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blackmailing suit was of the SS,500,OOO
issue, and that therefore Stewart could not
claim under his alleged contract the price
paid for the Lombard stock, as it was not
| similar to his own. At the conclusion of
Conkling's argument the Court adjourned.
Irregularities in the Office of the First
Comptroller.
| WASHINGTON, December 5th-At meet
| ing of the Committee on Expenditures of
! the Department of Justice, to- day, Chair
man Springer read a letter from j. J. Bar
| ker, former Treasury Clerk, reiterating the
| charges made by him some time ago against
| the management of the office of First Comp
! troller of the Treasury Department. In
explanation Of the charges Barker said he
called the attention of the Comptroller tos
what he considered illegal allowances of
| per diem, and goes on to say =" He said
he had written decision on this same SUBJ
! ject. | told him his decision had not
reached the fourth door of his office The
| Comptroller told me that one bill forper diem
was outrageous, and should not be allowed
but it was allowed. In other cases [
! objected to the payment of claims as illegal,
but they were allowed. ! called the atten-
! ton OF the Chief of the Division to certain
| irregular vouchers, and he replied that it
was none of my business. There were
other accounts for $11 coo that were the re-
sulTof star route trials. | told the Comp
noller they were Illegal. He said he had
signed them without examining them I
told him that he could not afford to sign
them. He replied he could afford to, be-
cause he had already done So think the At
torney-General influenced the Comptroller
to allow the $11 600. ] went to the Chair
I man of this committee and to Senators
Van Wyck and Harrison, and attempted
to have these things corrected, but ! found
every obstacle in my way" Referring to
the First Comptroller, Barker said g be-
| lieve Judge Lawrence to be honest, but he
is so exclusively engaged in the production
of his decisions that he has no time to at
tend to the details of his Office
Before adjournment the committee di-
rected the Chairman to appoint sub-com-
mlttee to investigate the matters referred to
by Barker.
A resolution was adopted requesting the
Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the
committee copies of all vouchers on file in
the Ireasurers s department concerning pay
Inent to United States Marshal Wright and
other Court officials in the Southern Dis
trict OF Ohio for general and special Deputy
MarshalS at the Congressional elections in
October and for statement of the amounts
allowed and paid on account of their serv-
ices
A resolution was also adopted directing
the Chairman to request the Attorney-Gen-
| erai to furnish the committee with copies
of all correspondence between his depart
ment and United States Marshal Wright in
reference TO the employment of United
States Deputy Marshals at the same elec-
ton.
The French Consul for San Francisco.
CHICAGO, December 5th-Edmond Car
rey, who many years held the post of
French Consul in Chicago, and who has
recently been appointed by the French
Government Consul in San Francisco. ar
rived here this morning from France, en-
route to San Francisco. Talking of French
affairs, Carey says the Republic is securely
anchored, and no other system of govern
ment can ever prevail again in France At
the same time he thinks too frequent
changes of the Cabinet is feature of the
Government that might be removed with
advantage The Chinese war, he says is
by no means popular in France, but for all
that it will be pushed on and France will
retain all her possessions there and get in
demnity from China for the expenses of the
war, too. Mr.. Carey has BROUGHT his
family with him to America, and after re-
naming in Chicago few days he viii pro-
eeed to his new home.
Alex. R. Boteier, of West Virginia.
WASHINGTON, December 5th-Attorney-
General Brewster has appointed Alex r.
Boteler. of West Virginia. to be Pardon
Clerk of the Department of Justice, to sue
ceed Edward Starr, deceased His ap-
pointment will probably not be superseded
by the Democratic Acknowledgement who
will succeed Brewster. Boteler was men,
Der of the Tariff Commission He is 90