St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-23


Meeting held March %, 1882. Judge Will
son presented statement of the suits of the
| city against the Minnesota Construction COM
pany. He explained that three additional
suits were begun, one by Alexander Mitchell,
one by Russell Sage and one by N. A. Cow
dry. In defending these suits his bill for
services, covering period of seven years,
was $6,O0O. The disbursements, as itemzed
IN the bill, were $3.50. 75, making the whole
amount of the bill SI62S9.7 70, of which Sl0,-
600 was his fee on the principal suit, in ac-
cordance with his agreement with the city.
The bill was, on motion, allowed, all voting
aye on the call of the roll"
have quoted from the records of the city.
The city council agrees to that bill, and In
the suits in which they first employed me
they pay me $4,000, as they agreed in their
written contract; in the three suits in which
they subsequently employed me they pay me
$4,000. Mr.. WINDOWS statement shows that
he had
CONSULTED THESE RECORDS,
and that he must have known the truth when
he made such false ana eliminating accu-
sation. Nothing can add to the conclusive
ness of this proof or more clearly demon
strate the wapton wiclledness OF his charges.
Notice. it is not pretended that M fee WAS
too high. He merely makes these charges to
/ show that | have falSined. l tried them once
through the supreme court OF the United
States, twice through the circuit court of the
United States, two three times through
Il e supreme court OF the state, twice
through the district courts Of the state, and L
gained verdict and judgment-which l col
lected-of between $780, 900 and $3.50 600 for
the city Of Winona; and there don't live on
this earth a man ut to try those suits that
won't say that my fee was extremely low. l
spent much of ms time for seven years work
ing on those suits as no man ever worked be-
fore Applause l-impeiled by a desire TO
/ beat those men who had attempted TO de-
! aud nF.ffI lar 1rl~ ma la IN fIsa-T 4
man comes up with that record, which ne
quotes part OF and leaves the balance out,
and says have lied before these people, and
that l have, before the people of taeo ity OF
Winona, made charge OF $4,000 for that
which l agreed to do for $1,000. Per-
nit me to say that these hes nave
gone broadcast, it was ntenoed
they should; they are being discussed in
hundreds OF houses in this district 1T this
time, just as it was intended theF should be.
This gentlemen again refers 70 a Green Bay
subscription in the CITY of WiIona, for he is
determined TO snow that l am bad man. Let
me read:
Again be says he has always been against
all kinds OF SUBSIDIES When the Green Bay
railroad wanted TO come to Wluona Judge
I Wilson acting as attorney for the preSi-
dent He and others induced the people TO
subscribe, think, S56, O0J, with the under
standing that the city was to reimburse tlo
subscribers when the power to vote should be
obtained from the Legislature. When they
got the power to vote Judge Wilson was one
Of the parties who exerted their influence TO
prevent reimbursng said Subscribers. 1t is
understood that his own subscription was
paid by legal services
The records cannot give but [ will give
| you names that will make it equally as GER
| tain. The Green Bay company, when 1t
came to the city of Winona, offered to build
into Winona in given time if certain help
was given. The people of Winona got
together and said, we have no power to give
! q bonus, but when the next legislature meets,
| il any persons in the city will subscribe now.
we will indemnify them and refund the
amount of their subscriptions Certain per-
sons went on and subscribed raiSing $4,000.
! more or less, by subscription, which they
agreed to give to that company II it would
come to Winona within a given time and
build in given manner L was
one Of the subscribers, subscribing 500.
| Window says: 1t is understood paid my
! subscription in attorneys fees. You always
| insinuate, you know, when you want to get
| fa!sehood abroad and dare not state it. l
paid my subscription in my check on the
bank, which was in money-every dollar OF 1t.
l was not the attorney of the president Of
that company. When he came and got that
subscription I tried, with the people of our
| city. to get 1t down just as low as 1t could he
gotten, but, on the contrary from what he as
SertS here, that | tried to prevent the city
! from reimbursing those who had thus paid
went 10 ST. Paul and did my best to set
! through the legislature bill to reimburse
them. Hon. Earl S. Youmans, one of the
most prominent and hOnOred citizens OF
winona. was on the other side opposing me.
We appeared and argued the question before
the committee of the legislature, and
after the law passed +. i voted
in favor OF refunding to the subscribers.
But for the purpose of showing that am
dishouorable fellow and bad man, and in the
qaoa of tbGAf apt h,a ga VA / 20
imbursing these men. He didn't dare TO have
his speech published in Winona. There lived
Hon. Earl s. Youmans, there lived the people
that knew that eveEy word of this was false
hood and calumny. This statement by him
is false in every item and particular. Ap-
plausel
He goes on further and speaks of the Pugh
Casa private ELSEWHERE he says got
certain moneys L ought not to have gotten,
and So of it was an attorneys fee that went
into my pocket
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER Is THIS:
A suit was commenced against the railroad
company at Winona 10y man named Irvine
Pugh. Mr.. Window says in this case that
admitted that there was a certain amount
due to Pugh, that he was badly hurt, and that
/ offered him the sum Of $3.50 by way of COM
promise. l saw that in the paper; thought
| ] knew the man who gave him that informa-
ton It is the man Tawney that you remem-
Der says they have delivered over to Mr..
Lovely 5000 Knights of Labor in Winona.
| He was the man who had the conduct of that
suit. l went to him just before left Winona,
and said
''Mr. Tawney, did you tell Mr.. Window that
I admitted that there was anything due to
Mr. Pugh, or that offered him $3.50 to COM
promiSe?''
mo sir: never told any such thing
''Wil you sign a letter to that effect, Mr..
Tawney?"
''Well,'' be hesitated, and-''Y-e-s, I'll sign
letter that never said so to Window
Mr. Tawney, will you sign letter that
that is not true, as far as you KNOW"
''Well, it's not true, as far as know" he
says.
said he;
"well, once when you and 1 were taking
dispositions you said: 'Tawney, you'd better
accept check of $50 and let US go home and
have no more trouble
Said I: ''Mr. Tawney, if I said that, was it
said in earnest In way of proposition of set
tlement, or by way of joke or badinage?'
Said he: 81 never understood it to be in
earnest
Said I: "Mr. Tawney, will you sign let
ter to that e1ect?'
Well, Tawney sat there looking into vacant
space, evidently at loss to decide whether 1t
was best TO injure an adversary by a false
hood or to tell the truth. l added: MIR.
Tawney, do you mean to say that you are
willing that falsehOod should go forth to
the detrimeut of your neighbor, and that
you, knowing it to be falsehood, wont make
statement over your hand that it is
falsehood?''
And when 1 left him, Tawney was still
looking into space and hadn't the courage to
say: AYE, yes or no.
And MIR. Window gets that remark in a
private suit, and the man that gave it TO him
says it was never made or intended to be
made in any thing else than a jOke-if it was
made-Q don't believe it ever was made)-
but that there
WAS NO INTENTION OR UNDERSTANDING
that il should be a compromise; and then he
puts it before the people and says that Wilson
tried to injure that man. And he says,
further, "Wilson collected certain fees, etc.
Their complaint being defective / moved to
make it more certain, so that we would know
what the ground of the suit was. Judge
Start decided against me and / appealed to
the supreme court, and the supreme court
said had right to have it more certain, and
then it came back. / had not one farthing's
interest in the matter and never got q cent