New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-31
COUDERT SCORES MAYNARD.
THE JUDGES ACT AS a
SHAMEFUL, OUTRAGEOUS CRIME"
REILLY TRIES TO BULLY Mr.. CoUDERT. AND %
SCUELCHED-RIDGwAY CENsURED BY THE
COMMITTEEMAN FOR DIsGRACEFUL
LANGUAGE-MEssRs. CARTER,
HAND AND JENNER
TESTIFY.
tTRoaA srArr CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrBuSEl

TESTIFY.
tTRoaA srAyr CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRrsuSEI
Albany, March 3O-Mr. Delos McCurdy may
be sick, but unless he has fits, his condition 10
one of seraphic bliss in comparison with the con-
dtion of the rest of the Senate thieves whom
he appears 10 have heartlessly abandoned They
had another session Of the joint Judiciary COM
mittees to-day and three more Democratic Mug.
wumps from the Bar Association were examined
IL was positively painful TO the Hill outfit
twist and squim in their chairs and cOerce their
features into sickly smiles as Mr.. Coudert. in his
quiet, courteous way, with that perfectly lovely
expression which always settles down upon his face
when he is about to do particularly deadly thing.
dissecte1 Maynards crime and laid open it's shame
full motives The tactics pursued by the lawyers
are essentially similar 10 those of yesterday; buo
Mr. Ridgway was substituted interlocutOr for
Mr. Reilly, and it must be said that the cause OF
the thieves profited largely by this change. That
is to say, while Mr.. Rdgway conducted their case
they not punished nearly so severely as they
were whenever Reilly tried his hand.
Reilly has a wide mouth, thick lips peaKed
and aggressive nose high cheek k-bOnes, and TWO
little black eyes stuck into his head behind them'
His hair is black, but there was red hair IN ms
family. The very asking of question scemed
TO excite his rage. and when the answers came
they sent him into volcanic eruptions, highly
disacreeable 10 witness Mr.. Ridgway, on the
other hand was suave and serene. 1t cost him
a .,rcat deal of effort but he kept cheerful
aspect througnout the session. n was only when
he delivered himself Of the outrageous insult 70
Wheeler H. Peckham, with which the sltunS
closed. and which General Hustled and Senator
Saxton denounced cowardly and shameful. that
Mr.. Ridgway ceased to smile. The big thieves
bad Of fatrn
time last night, as stealthily as he had sneaked
in: Murphy was busy patching up his fraternal
quarrel with Herrick; and Sheehan. whether over
come By sudden conception Of decency or for
conventional reasons, kept himself hidden. Ills
imuudent comment on Mr.. Peckhams testimony.
that il was as near as any Mugwump ever sos
"a the truth is a capital illustration OF what
this pothouse politician Of Buffalo considers be-
coming behavior in the presiding ofice OF me
Senate.
THE AIN OF THE DAYS ExAMINATIoN.
Tho whole aim of the examination to-day was
70 got into the records those allegations OF facs
which are made in Judge Maynards letter to the
Court of Appeals, namely, that there was sflp'
ulation entered into by the counsel on both sides
in the election cases that they should he taken
directly 10 the Court of Appeals, and that the
Judgment of that court should be followed by the
Board of State CanvasSers; that the corrected
certificate from Dutchess County came up
10 the Board of State Canvassers at
date subsequent to the making OF that
stipulation; that the order OF Judge Culieh
vacating Judge Fursmans stay and making IL ohe
duty of the County Clerk of Duchess county 10
forward ,be corrected returns forthwith, was filed
in the clerks Office at Poughkeepeie after CLOCK
in the afternoon. at which time the office was
Ind N
ing Judge Cullens order was granted before Clerk
Fmans deposited the corrected returns in the post
office N Poughkcepse and that Judge Maynard
WAS appriseI of these facts when he intercepted
tbc returns in the Controllers Office and handed
them back TO Emans
OF cour,c as each of the lawyers who have
been examined has testified, and as the Bar Asso-
citation clearly showed in its report, these 1acts
furnished no sort of an excuse for the inert OF
public document from public office; nor would
any of the other facts alleged by the Democratic.
but not thus far brought out in the testimony.
Thcv say. for instance that Emans knew of Judge
Inpraham's order when he mailed the returns,
and that he mailed them under durees, having
been triccd and frightened into doing so by the
Republican counsel; and they auese that the
effect of the stipulation above referred To was
to commit the lawyers on both sides not TO
c,s County than the Mylod certificate These
,llegations are false Emans has sworn in an
affidavit used in the contempt proceedings before
JudCe Cullen. that he did not know of Judge
Iucraham's order when he mailed the returns'
and his personal counsel, Mr.. LOwn, testified TO
tho same thing To suppose that the stipulation
had the effect attributed to it by Maynard and
the other thieves would he to suppose
that ten of the ablest lawyers III
the State of Ncw-York were both crlmina! ana
foolish. But. even il both these allegations were
,r,c tberc would be still no justification IN them
for the larceny of that document.
MIR. CouDERr TAKES THE STAND.
Each of the lawyers examined to-day made these
facts and conclusions perfectly clear Mr.. Coudero
testified that he was a member Of the Bar Assocla-
tlon: that he had signed the report on ire
strength OF which the Association had memorlalzed
the Legislature for Judge Maynard'S REMOVAL and
that before the Bar Association took this action,
there had been several preliminary meetings OF
individual members OF the Association, Tor the
uurposr Of examining the facts and ascertllnihS
whether they called for action on the part OF tho
Association. At OF these preliminary meet
mos a committee consisting of General
Barlow. Albert StcIney and William A.
Icnncr MAS appointed to collect the records
and ascertain their effect The resolution prepared
for the Association directing an inquiry into the
case was prcdicated on the statements OF this
committee of three Then followed these questions
and answers:
Odd YOU examine this statement OF tho committee
of three to had dealt fairly with Judge Msyhafat
A-p ALT failyl What do you mean
o. mean just that Did you consider whether this
committee had properly represented Judge Maynads aetst
A-No sir: / dit not. IL never occurred to me has
the distinguished gentlemen on that committee whom
had known og yars lawyers Of great ability and men
oi the highest character had in any way Nettd records
or removed public documents from offices where they e.
iOnged
This stinging reply was delivered in Mr.. Cou-
derts kcencst tenor, and it drew from the densely
crowded room "A roar OF laughter. Mr. Ridgway