San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-05-05
A Chapter on Hogg, Chiffon and
Finley,

A Chapter on Hogg, Chiffon and
Finley.
From our Democratic Contributor.
All persons after having read the
Hon. Gerald and Senator Garwood's !,
appeal on the I. & G. n. Receiver
ships case will reverse their opinion
of Hogg, Chiffon and Finley, if before.
they respected these as pure attor-
neys and spotted gentlemen. Let us
reproduce some facts ELECTED from
the records. All is arranged salts
fsctorily. Bonner and Finley have
each So ,000.00 a year as receivers.
Herndon $4,000 as General Solicitor.
(-Herndon did not suit the Tyler
gang and has since been left OUT
Chiffon aud Duncan $4,000 60 as
General Atty's, Camnbell S400 per
mouth and S5900.G0 extra, this was
Feb. 18th. Finley only used his
name as Receiver two or three weeks
and ii is not clear that he performed
single service during that time,
unless perhaps ne made trip in pal
ace car consequently he could not draw
his whole years salary of Sl2, 900, and
IlhsOll Will ElU,OUUs ~
pretty good receiver after all. Hogg
requests Bonner, when the federal
court was about to be asked to stop
such robbery, to go back to Tyler,
have some new man disconnected
with the friends to write him, but it
seems Bonner wrote himself and
merely got Mr.. Brown to copy the
letter, upon which he received the
blanks of Attorney General Hogg,
who then files his intervention for his
Tyler friends, in the name OF the
| state. There were many rotten things
unesrthed at the Galveston investi-
CATION, aud Judge McCord has several
atten lions paid to him. Mr.. Gerald,
after showing the receivers were
selected before an application for
them had been made, says
whether this receivership was origin
ally and legally granted with due
regard for the law governing re-
ceiverships, and after due DELHI
GRAFTON and investigation, as to the
equitable rights of al1 persons inter
ested in the property" it does not
appear so to us.
We have often blushed for Texas,
when during Davis regeme, a trust
| ed officer of the governor (Davidsonl
absconded with the public funds,
but we must admit some of the Tyler
democrats handled other peoples
| money In way that would make a
highway robber blush. The only
one who seems to have tried to earn
his salary was Ex-senator Chiffon,
with his judicial forecasts, he alone
could tell, what the court could do
and what could not be done with the
court. Oh, these recieverships, they
| do smack of the midnight acts of the
anybody, when justice and equity is
believed to be asleep; q wrapper can
be filed In q court and when after
wards, the interventions roll in.
millions upon millions are withheld
from their owners, in order to reward
active and am bilious friends. A sem.
blance of finance occasionally come s
to the surface, thus we see In this I
& g. n. case, that when Chiffon com
promised q $4,000 suit (of Gus Tay
lors0 which he-the ally, Chiffon
himself-swore to be just, for on ~
$500. he did not charge any fee for the
$500 received, or for the S19,500 not
recovered for his client. Is 1t any
wonder now that many of the best
paid r r or r r. receivers lawyers
will hold In long emembrance Gov
James Stephen Hogg, who as at.
torney-general, only acted with a
view TO help his friends-a record he
is proud OF yet-and cared little, OIL
knew little OF the law which the sd,
preme court has not yet been able &c
instill into the mind of person, moi
ev'n embarrassed by Confederate
record.
Wellington Smith, who gave the
Southwest Texas Asylum the great
artesian well In our midst, might bt
able to say how Texas acted toward
q private individual when James Ste
phen Hogg was governor, but ther
he worked for State institution il
Bexar county, in which none iron
around here dare hope for employ
ment. 3,