Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — THE IKON HALL RECEIVERSHIP. [ARTICLE]

THE IKON HALL RECEIVERSHIP.

Perhaps no recent specific act of official conduct has created as great a sensation as the arbitrary “allowances” by Judge Winters of the Marion County Superior Court, in the Iron Hall receivership case at Indianapolis. In two years the receivership has cost $157,335.04. Gt this great sum Mr. Failey, the receiver, “receives” $50,000; the law firm of Hawkins & Smith, attorneys for the receiver,, “receive” $30,000; other lawyers, one of whom is a son of the Judge making the allowance “receive” nearly $50,000. All of these eminent gentlemen are said to be conspicuous in the business, professional, social, and even “religious”(?) life of the capital The episode is only one more of a series of similar transactions —the Haughey swindle, the Coffins’ confidence game, and the questionable handling of the Grand Army Encampment funds last year —that have gone to make the extremely discreditable financial history of the Hoosier capital a by-word throughout the country. It appears to be an impossibility for public funds, or even private funds, to escape the clutches of the eminent~gennemeE" who would be shocked if their portraits were demanded by the authorities to be hung in the Rogue’s Gallery. A. P. K.