The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
GRANT AND FISH.
The Letters of the Former to the Latter
Ex-senator Conkling Sees No Reason
for Further Statement on the Part of
General Grant-Statement of the Affairs
of the Younger Grants.

Ex-senator Conklfng Sees No Reason
for Further Statement on the Part of
General Grant-Statement of the Affairs
of the Younger Grants.
NO FURTHER EXPLANATION.
New YORK, May 2s.-Ex-Senator Conk-
ling, counsel for General Grant, said yester-
day: 1.-THE only statement that is to be
made on the part of General Grant was
published yesterday morning in all the
papers Of this city, and also through the
agency of the Associated Press, in those of
other parts of the United States. In that
statement the letters alluded to in the re-
ported interview with Fish were given in
full, and | see no reason for further
statement on the part of General Grant"
The following are the letters Of General
Grant to which Fish referred:
NEW YORK CRY, July 6, lSS2.-Ny dear Mr..
Fish: On my arrival in the city this morning
ind your letter of yesterday, with a letter
from Thomas L. James, President of the Lin
coin National Bank. and copy of your reply
to the latter. Your understanding in regard
to our liabilities in the firm of Grant Ward
las general partnersl is the same as mine. If
you desire it l am entirely willing that the
advertisement of the firm shall be so changed
as to express this. Not having been in the
city for more than a week, have large ac-
cumulated mail to look over and some bust
ness appointments to meet, SO that may not
be able to get down to see you to-day. But if
] can will go before three o'clock. Yours
very truly, U. S. GRANT.
NEW YORK, July 6, 1892 Nh dear Mr.. Fish:
In relation to the matter of discount kindly
made by you for account of Grant q Ward,
would say that think the investments are
safe. and that am willing that Mr.. Ward
should derive what profit he can for the firm
that the use of my name and influence may
bring. Yours very truly, U. s. GRANT.
Fish now says that he did not mean to
charge that General Grant had any guilty
knowledge of frauds in Government con-
tracts, but simply intended to say that the
letters received from General Grant were of
such tenor as to warrant any one in having
confidence in the representations made by
Ward.
John D. Fish, says his father regards
General Grants position iii regard to
Wards transactions as similar to his own.
Both of them were misled to the extent of
trusting entirely to what was said by Ward.
Alta meeting Of the Metropolitan Bank
directors yesterday morning the President
said that the deposits had decreased about
Sc, 900, 600 since the suspension, but showed
no further diminution this week. Many
letters had been received from former de-
positors, which would seem to show that
they would again become depositors. Sew
eral new accounts had been opened in the
past few days, and the bank was entirely
sound in every particular.
United States District Attorney Root has
lodged warrant for the arrest of Ferdi-
nand Ward in Ludlow Street Jail
last night, on complaint of Bank
Examiner Serbia, who charges that
Ward aided and allotted President James
D. Fish in misappropriating the funds of
the Marine Bank The affidavit rccites the
same facts as in the case of Fish, giving the
amount drawn out of the bank by Grant &
Ward as 1875, 900, and concludes with
charging Ward with having aided, abetted,
counseled and procured said James d. Fish
to commit the offenses with intent to injure
and defrald the Marine Bank for his own
benefit and advantage"
The United States Commissioner has held
for trial, in their own recogniZance, Thomas
W. Evans, Cornelius F. Simpson and John
B. Dickson, bank officers, for violation of
the law preventing certiication of checks
for a greater amount than is on deposit at
one time. The bank claimed the checks
were accepted" not certified.
THE YOUNG GRANTS DEBTS.
The individual schedules in the assign
ment of Frederick D. Grant and Jesse r.
Grant to James McNamee have been
filed in court. The schedules of Frederick
d. Grant show the following debts. The
liabilities amount to So. 215, 066, made up as
follows:
Creditors other than preferred. 49,. $500 800
Creditors preferred Observation-Disclosures. 243966
Contingent liabilities. ............... 1J000
Par value securities borrowed from
Grant Ward. .............. I140,S00
The assets are nominally worth ST., $780,.
O13; their actual worth is unknown.
Colonel Fred Grant sold his family team,
carriages and harness few days ago for
$1,000 and dismissed his coachman and all
his house help. His wife, when informed
of the failure of her husband and the neces-
sity for economy in her domestic relations,
remarked: 81 have lived Oh army rations
once and can do it again."
The schedules in assignment of Jesse r.
Grant show debts and liabilities of $95. 249,
and assets nominaly $131, 15O Jesse
Grant makes an affidavit that he is unable
to state the actual value of the assets be-
cause Grant 81 Ward failed, and their prop
erty is now in the hands of a receiver and
no schedules have been made showing the
assets of the firm.
Mrs. U. s. Grant has sold the house 1880
Corcoran street, Washington, which was in
her name, to John r. Mclean, of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, for $4,000,
GENERAL GRANT GIVES VANDERBILT A
MORTGAGE.
CHICAGO, May ga mortgage from
General U. s. Grant to w. H. Vanderbilt
on an undivided fourth palt of 1876 acres of
land adjoining Chicago has been put OF.
record in this city. The land was conveyed
to General Grant by Joseph r. Jones May
20, 1869. The mortgage is given to secure
payment of a check drawn by General
Grant on account of Grant & Ward, dated
May 8, 1884, for the sum Of $3.50, 900, in
payment Of money advanced by Vanderbilt
to Grant & Ward. The mortgage was exc
cuted in New York, and bears date May II.
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