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My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity
To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.
the matter of the Government subsidy to the Union Pacific Railroad in a few days, as I have formed my
In the meantime, the result to which I have come enables me to say that, in my opinion, the conditions
Clay having brought to my notice the subject of the proceedings, now or heretofore pending against you
Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.
trial, with such counsel as shall represent the defendant there, in conformity to the suggestions of my
Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo submits for my opinion this question: May a Consul retain for his
After an examination of the statutes relating to the subject, and to which you have directed my attention
that he will be in attendance at the Court in Richmond, prepared to make the arrangement suggested in my
The term commences on Monday, the 23d inst., I learn, and not the 25th as has heretofore been my impression
Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th inst. calling my attention to the case of Hosmer v. the
My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter
S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.
as District Attorney during this vacancy, I have no person to address to accomplish the objects of my
What I may find it possible, or think it my duty to do, in regard to a personal participation in the
matter at Richmond, it is quite out of my power at present to determine; as my preparations for the ensuing
term of the Supreme Court of the United States, on special assignment, requiring my personal attendance
—The object of my present communication is to advise you of the probability of such a rule requiring
Come directly to my house. Please answer by telegraph when I may expect you. Wm. M. Evarts.
Sir: Your letter of the 15th Dec. inst. calls my attention to a certain course of proceedings of Mr.
Your letter also calls my attention to the supposed authority which you had, in consequence of or in
In a personal interview during your visit to Washington immediately after my reception of your letter
of making good the assurances of the government, in this sense and to this extent, I considered it my
I beg to enclose a copy of my letter to the Dist. Attorney, for your information.
the representative of the claimants, to agree upon such a presentation of the facts as will raise for my
Should this anticipation be realized, it will be my pleasure as well as my duty, to give early consideration
the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my
previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as
Egins is strongly pressed upon my attention as justly requiring the interposition of the Executive clemency
I should not take the liberty of again referring the subject to you, after your reply to my former reference
examination of the affidavits presented to me, on behalf of the prisoner made a considerable impression upon my
I am unwilling however to proceed upon my own impression in this regard, notwithstanding my respect for
I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.
rendered in relation to the title of League Island, sent to me in your letter of the 5th ultimo for my
opinion as to the reasonableness of the charge; and to say that in my opinion Fifteen hundred dollars
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, requesting me to give you my
While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the
which is one of fact and not of law, and therefore not within the scope of the authority and duty of my
Joseph Conrad, Captain 29th U. S.
If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty
City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and
My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult
the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my
either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my
It is not in my power to assign you so early a day. Will write by mail. Wm. M.
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
the Court of Claims, which has been dismissed with your consent, pursuant to the advice contained in my
Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.
Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure
—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions
information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my
to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my
My letters to Mr. Courtney of the 2d and 21st of November last are hereto annexed, marked A and B .
The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood
Upon my inquiring whether he was expecting to obtain the consent of these accusers to the submission
Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or
Eckel, and until my examination of the case, and my final directions thereupon, that the indictment in
Schley having my entire confidence, as well as your own, I concur in your suggestion that they be employed
such directions respecting the proceedings allowed to as I may deem expedient, or to express to you my
I regard the subject of your letter, and the request for my advice and direction in the premises, as
entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter, which has received my
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. requesting my opinion
McKeon, and return them herewith, with the endorsement of my opinion thereon.
If you approve a reversal of the judgment, it will be my pleasure to carry that desire into effect.
been both pertinent & important if I had occasion to dispose of the case of Davis as presented for my
By a perusal of my letter to Mr.
My dear Sir: In reply to your note of 12th inst., desiring, as counsel for the Commercial Nav'g'n Co.
, an interview with me during my expected visit to New York, I beg to say that I shall be pleased to
You will make the same disposition of these arms as was indicated to you, in a former case, in my letter
Sir: My attention has been called by the Secretary of the Treasury to the probable fact of the custody
Leese's recommendations for the office of Marshal. 4th; My acceptance of Mr.
I have now to say that your resignation is accepted,—& I feel bound to add that my confidence in your
of your friend Hatcher to the notice of the President to-day, & that he gave a favorable response to my
No report has, within my knowledge, been made to you from this office, in relation to any violations
Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit my opinion as to the proper course to be taken in reference
Tapara, which you have brought to my notice since that opinion was prepared, does not seem to me to authorize
compensation allowed to counsel upon employment by this office, I feel that I am scarcely warranted in giving my
the suggestion that you reduce it to the sum I have indicated, which, being done, I will promptly add my
As a claim against the United States, it is clearly without my official province, & I must therefore
Sir: In accordance with your request, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of my letter of January
Rider, and that in my opinion, no public object now exists which could be promoted by the proposed attempt
Sir: A few days since I gave to the Secretary of the Interior my opinion in favor of the payment of your