People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — WON’T RESIGN. [ARTICLE]

WON’T RESIGN.

Judge Jenkins to Continue ia Active Court Work During the Trial of the Indicted Plankinton Bank Officers and .Directors. Milwaukee, July 19.—Judge Jenkins will not resign from the bench of the United States circuit court in consequence of his indictment by the grand jury as a director of the Plankinton bank; nor will he remain off the bench pending the outcome of his trial. This decision has been arrived at by the judge since a conferqlfce in Chicago last Friday with Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States supreme court, and his confreres in this circuit. He was assured by them that they were satisfied with the purity of his motives in connection with the bank, and they insisted that he should maintain his fullest and most active relations with the court. Chief Justice Fuller was most emphatic in his opinion as to Judge Jenkins’ duty and insisted upon his sitting in court as if nothing had happened. By way of assurance as to his faith in the judge’s honor and integrity the chief justice promised Judge Jenkins .that he would see to it personally that President Cleveland became acquainted at the earliest possible date with the former’s case in all its phases, and he assured the judge that the president would sustain the stand taken by Justice Fuller and the circuit court judges.