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Cook County Savings Bank. To the Editor of The Tribune CHICAGO, June 31.-I have expected to see a letter from Mr. Carl Dreier, Assignee of the Cook County Savings Bank, in reply to my letter published in last Sunday's TRIBUNE, but none. has appeared. In a morning paper of Thursday appeared a report of an interview had by a reporter of that paper with Mr. Dreier. He denies the charge that the bank for two or three months just previous to its failure refused to pay out any money, although it received deposits. His denial is opposed to the statements of over thirty depositors. He says that he believes the depositors understand the condition of the affairs of the bank, and are satisfied with what he and his counsel are doing. 'What foundation is there for that statement, when the depositors, one and all, declare themselves not satisfied with what is being done, and denounce him in the bitterest terms? His explanation as to the cause of the bank's failure may be correct, but why did it continue to run when it was evident that it must some time go under? He says that the delay in winding up the concern was unavoidable, owing to the slow process of the law. He does not say when the suit against Taylor & Co. for $150,000 was commenced. An ordinary suit. can be disposed of in & year. Two years are sufficient to dispose, of the most complicated and hardly-contested case, if it is properly prosecuted. He has stated that the suit against Taylor & Co. had been decided adversely to the bank, and that Judge Blodgett had refused a new trial. Now he says that the case is still pending; by which he may mean that it is the intention to take an appeal. He does not deny that his attorneys claim $6,000 for services rendered in that case, which they lost. and for which services he has attempted to give them a first lien on the assets. He does not deny that he refused to give the list of depositors' names, or the stockholders' names, or information to the depositors. From a list of the stockholders which I have, it appears that many of them have not paid their assessments. Many of them are solvent. Mr. Dreier has given no reason why he has not compelled them to pay. Even now he could save the depositors expense and trouble by turning everything over to them, but be will not do it. He compels them to go into court to oust him. He told me that he would give up his position and let the depositors take the matter into their hands, if they would pay his attorneys $6,000, making his withdrawal conditioned on the performance of an act which the depositors can not and ought not perform. To the reporter he said that he was willing to resign his connection with the