Abstract

The Week

The article presents information on various social and political developments around the world. It is reported that in the U.S. assembly, Samuel J. Randall has been elected Speaker without difficulty, the Greenbackers showing neither strength nor courage. He has proved himself the determined enemy of jobs and subsidies and all forms of corruption and disorder, and is as nearly a friend of sound finance as a popular Democrat can be expected to be. It is also reported that the House Judiciary Committee, which was directed to investigate certain charges brought against District Judge Blodgett, of the Northern District of Illinois, by three Chicago lawyers upon which his impeachment was demanded, made a report at the close of the last session of Congress. The two principal charges were that Judge Blodgett had corruptly conspired with A.C. Hesing to defraud the creditors of the Germania Insurance Company of Chicago, a bankrupt corporation, which held among its assets certain notes and collaterals of said Hesing worth $20,000, which Hesing was - enabled by the judge to get back into his possession for $5,000; and that he had arbitrarily and unlawfully prevented the Grand Jury from bringing in an indictment against H.N. Hibbard, Register in Bankruptcy, for perjury in swearing to an untruthful statement of his official fees.