New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-04
VOL. XXXIll ....No'lO,29S
WASHINGTON.
THE sANBORN INQUIRY.
reflective GREENS TESTIMONY MPEAChEp-i"'
poRrANT EVIDENCE EXPECTED NEXT WEEK

>rr-.rY,rryE GREENS TESTIMONY lMPEAChhp-i"-
PoRTANT EVIDENCE EXPECTED NEXT "hhh
IBv TELEGRAPH THE TRIBusEl
wAsuINsToN. April 3-Several DAYS ago, during
the examination by tho Ways and Means Commlt'ee
Of Mr. Green one of the SanbOrn detectives, he SAID
that bo had never represented himself as SPECIAL
AGENT of the Treasury although there was Dr'md
fac evidence that such was the fact In day OF two
afterward a letter was received by the committee
from Mr. Hing Collector of Internal Revenue al
INDIANAPOLIS saving in positive terms that Mr.
Green had represented himself az an othcer OF inc
Government. The letter has been already pilhteu
10 THE TRIBUNE, and Others are IN existence VIM"
xu,,nort il Green was again called before the COM
snttee and persistedin hisdenlal Mr Ming was n0NV
summoned and in his examination to-day alnrmeu
nnder oath the truth of this letter Inc amount oil
money collected by Green for Sanborn OF the III
diapapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company was
$1,000 half of which went to Sanborn Mr.. King
testified to-day that the Internal Revenue officers
.onld have collected the amount and would have
done So as the existence of the debt was known 10
them.
The 100000 collected from the Delaware and
Iackawana Railroad by Sanborn was paid in
January after the inquiry by the Ways and Means
Committee began. ii is reported that the Company
owed more than that amount and that compio-
nise was made IN order to hasten matters ana
divide the spoils before the contracts were aDrO-
gated IL is worthy of mention, therefore, that MI
Odell, the Treasurer of the Company, Will be sum-
noned ia order to settle the question.
The Committee WILL also summon Mr.. Hartley
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who has been
in Office nine years. to ascertain If he. too like Klch
arson and Sawyer is in the habit of signing papers
of an important character without reading them
Er Hartley is one of the most industrious and
IL offo in tba emUlOV.
had an experience IN the Department over twenty
FIVE years. Treasurer Spinner whose current bust
ness is very great. always reads whatever he signs
go also does the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Solicitor Banfeld will also be summoned again
before the inquiry closes. Sanborn is promised for
Monday.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF MR.. KINGS TFsTIMONY-HE
ASSERTS THAT GREEN REPRESENTED HIMSELF
AS SPECIAL TREASURY AGENT
GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHI
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The Committee on
Ways and Means had another hearing this morning in
the Sanborn matter and examined under oath
James NJ KING OF Indianapolis Acting Collector at that
point He testified that Green, Of sanborns agents,
had called his Office last January and introduced HIM
sell as a SPECIAL Agent of the Treasury Department,
showing letter Of credentials to Mr. Hogate, the Col
lector (Which letter. however, the witness had not
read) Mr. Green said, or conveyed the idea, that he
had been rent by the Commissioner OF Internal
revenue to collect back tax on dividends from the
Indianapolis and st. LOUIS Railroad Company, aud he
went to the Company's office next day and collected the
tax There had been question OF the liability of the
Company to tax and its Secretary had called several
times the Collectors Office, and had been referred to
the Assessor who had doubt in his mind as 10
whether the rate Of taxation shoud be per cent or ~
per cent. The railroad company had entered upon its
the due TO the Government, and had always
been ready and anxious TO pay IL.
The witness specially inquired OF as to Green's
representations him Green positively denied before
the Committee that he had represented himself as
Special Agent the Treasury Department and the wit
ness was co ay positive in asserting that Green had so
represented himself and he added that as the news
paper dispatches OF the day contained exposures Of the
sanborn contracts aud mentioned Green's name in con-
nection with them. the witness had called them 10
Green's attention. and Green denied the truth of the
tecgraphic statements, denied that such contracts
had been made. and denied that he the Green al
iuded to in the dispatches.