Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-19
Judge Vincent's Suspension.

HON. W. +. FISHBACkS STATEMENT.
The Hon. w. p. Fishoack, by whose efforts the
suspension of Judge Vincent of New Mexico,
was brought about, says OF the affair, in reply
to what has been published as coming
from Mr.. Springer, that Mr. Springer is mis-
taken as to his information. He understood
perfectly well that the Jurors which Dorsey and
his colleagues selected have nothing TO do with
trying the rights TO the title of the lands in dis
pute, but he also knew that the presumption of
these lands was based on perjury and subor-
nation of perjury, offenses which very clearly
came under the cOgniZance of those jurors. Mr..
Fishback said his attention was first called to
Dorsey's connection with the land frauds while
i'm New Mexico several months ago by editor
of a paper there who showed him a copy OF a
report made to the Interior department by
special agents sent out there to investigate the
matter, and subsequently he learned from a
newspaper report of the court proceedings that
Judge Vincent had appointed Dorsey "a men,
Der Oh the jury commission.
"My Information was, continued Mr.. Fish
back, "that during the Arthur administration
special agent OF the Land Office was
the alleged land frauds there. He staid
at Mr.. Dorsey's house a good part of the
time, rode i'm Mr.. Dorseys fine carriage, drank
Mr. Dorsey's fine imported wines. and looked
through Mr.. Dorseys plate-glass windows.
OF course, he could not see anything wrong.
and SO he reported. Another agent sent
out, and he lived in a tent and made a careful
investigation, and in his report executive doc
ument No. log, of the Forty-eighth Congress)
he implicated Dorsey in the frauds. 1 got a
copy of that report, and when / heard that
Dorsey had been appointed jury commits
sioner 1 thought that ii the democratic ad-
ministration was sincere in its efforts to
punish the land thieves il ought to know about
this matter. Accordingly, on October Z, L
wrote to Commissioners Sparks, of the Land
office, calling his attention TO that part OF the
agents report which showed that Dorsey and
his netghbors had procured titles to lands based
upon pre-emption claims procured by perjury
and subornation ofperjury, and also to the pub
iished proceedings of the district court OF the
county in which the frauds occurred, which
showed that Dorsey had been appointed to
select grand and petit jurors for the next term
of the court. 1 said that it was folly for the
government TO spend money through the In
terror department to discover these frauds if
the Department of Justice, through its judges,
should adopt the policy OF appointing those
men who had received the benefits of the crime
to select grand and petit Jurors who had cogni-
zance OF 1T. also said that 1 hoped it would
appear that Judge Vincent acted I'm ignorance
OF the facts, but feared that such was not the
case, for the reason that extracts from the
agents report had been printed in the terrific
rial papers last summer Under date OF the
18th Mr.. Sparks replied that he had given my
letter to the Secretary of the Interior, who had
promised that the matter should be laid before
the President, and the next thing heard was
that Vincent had been removed"