New-York tribune., 1886-02-13

JACOBS BONDS AND JACODS FRIENDS.
There was "A marked .fierence in the manner
and talk of the Two cllef witnesses before the
Senate Committee yr,t"rdy. Jacob Sharp
was on the stand tor mote than three bouls,
slow, stumbling and uncertain, giving every
one the Impression that ne W ~ flnblIng with
fasehool instead of following the upright AMI
Ingenious advice of CplDlel Georg' Bass and
telling everything Just aS II was" Then
James A. Rlchm md took the oath and pro-
ceeded to answer the q Iestions put to him in
direct, positive, emphatic way. W. Sharp ls
plauly man of deeds, not of words. Mr..
Richmond knows how to cOthe what he IL will
ing to tell in clear, direct language and he
wastes no time abonl it. Possibly he touk good
care not to know too much. He certainly was
sufficiently master of himself not to tell too
much for his own interests. But his evidence
was in refreshing contrast to that of Mr. Sbarp,
VINO had been staggering ABOUT feebly in his
efforts to avoid the truth. Mr.. Richmond
plainly did not suffer from any qnalms, physI-
cal or moral Anything he had done or left
undone he had fully made up his mind about
and he was fully prepared to bear all the CON
sequences An able witness for his side. But
ne did not enlignten { 10 committee much.
Mr. Sharp had made pleasant little dscov-
cry since the previous session. He found in
his own possession 3i9 more OF the bonds
than he thought he had. At least in his hazy,
confused and blunlering way, natural or
sumed, hr had given the impression that he had
retained only two hunIred OF the bonds in his
own hands. Yesterday he Ces flied that he has
$40. How gratifed Mr.. Sharp must have been
to find that he was so much richer than he had
Thought he was Few OF our miliOnal es
whether they are interested in street railroads
or not, when they take a casual glance at their
securities are delightfully."- surprised by
expected bonanza OF $4,000 in bonds. But
Mr.. ShirpS experiences ever since he aban-
dOned the lumber business and turned his at
tention to the transportation OF his fellow-mcn
have been peculiar. Ordinary rules and
ordinary laws do not apply to MIN. Nor do
they to the average Alderman, and it may be
possible that some of the able and energetic
City Fathers of 1884 walked up some fine
morning after ,he gran ing of the Broadway
franchise and found themselves unexpected
owners of houses and lands which were not
theirs before.
Counsel succeeded by patient questioning yes
terdi in tracing some twO-thlrds of the bonds
Wnlch MT. SHarpS reluctant confessions OF ldSJ
Tuesday had left unaccounted for. Mr.. Sharp
had had two entire days in which to persuade
his friends to recollrct for him the things that
he could not remember, but he was only sue
cesstul in part. More than two hundred of
the bonds are still in the dark unknown. Could
the Hon. John Keenan,, now alas "A totterlng in
valid somewhere in the country, but repre-
sented in this city by the queerest of doctors
certificates, throw any light on the subject il
his shattered health would permit him to un-
dertake the perilous and protracted journey to
New-YOrk3 Could the Hon. William ii.
MDloney intcrmit the continuous irrigation of
his resounding throat sufficiently long to favor
the committees with hint or twOi Could ex-
Alderman X. and ex-Alderman Y. oblige the
community with an expl Ination of their mo-
tives for uniting in the call for that famous
special session al o'clock in the morning,
when the franchise was rushed through the
ring with a velocity which Robert the Devil
could never approachf They have an un-
equalled opportunity to make themselves still
more famous-Or is II Infamous q-than some of
them are already. The committee and the city
~ In haar frnn