The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-09
JOHN B. HASKIN'S REPLY TO
SIMON STERNE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
The ''reform lawyer" Simon Sterne, rushed into
all the newspapers OF yesterday In defence Of his
patron "of the treasury" Andrew Fl. Green. His
card contains q tissue Of ialsehoods from DO.
ginning to end. az has been and will be proven
under oath before the Aldermanic committee. He
commences by stating untruly the substance of
my statement made before the committee "That
Mr.. Green employed me (sterne) to lobby for him
at Albany the spring Of 1874. and paid me there
for ST. 6OO aud that redraftlng the Annexation act
was pretext" My testimony was that Ste rne
introduced himself to me and stated that he
appeared at the Legislature for the Comptroller,
and at his request. Sterne introduced himself
to mo at the Delevan House, when three
gentlemen were present breakiasting with me,
who overheard his, to them, impertinent remarks,
and who Will, II required. testify and corroborate
what have stated before the Aldermanic COM
mittee, one OF these gentlemen remarklng at the
time my forbeArance IN not giving the inviting
olfactory organ Of Sterne gentle tweak Tor hts
impressive lmpertinence on the occasion. then
"the Comptroller" and Andrew II. Green, the in
dividual. They are different things while Simon
sterne the lawyer and Lobbyist, Is one ana me
the Comptroller for redraiting the Annexation act
and attempts 10 Justly nrasH as
sworn that the services were detrimental to the
interests OF the city and vaiueless; and swore
William Herring will be examined before the
COMMITTEES in lull corroboration Of Mr.. Cauld well.
The invention OF Sterne tnat he saved half
million OF dollars to the city by deleat OF the maj
clause In the amended Annexation act OF Mr..
Cauldwel. IS Munchausenism. me map clause
gave the employment OF the doing or the WORK for
the MAPS &C., to his friends Comptroller Green
aud Mayor Havemeyer, and was not defeated as it
is substantially retained In the act as passed. This
saving is Ike the pretended saving to the city by
the $4,000 in taxed costs IN judgments obtained
against the city mostly unnecessarily paid by the
Comptroller. and che 100000 also paid Tor extra
counsel" to ''sap the vltals OF the CITY," This
pretended saving is also like unto the "mlllions In
tn attempted to be made In his raid uDOn COM
modore Vanderbilt and t the New YORK Central
ment by Injunction ate mpted to ne obtained upon
his advice 10 poor old Mayor Havemeyer-that the
nav u Was Because the act
contained more than one subject and the
subjects were not expressed IN the title.
by a two-third vote. The supreme Court,
however, determined that the mantle OF Daniel
Webster had not fallen upon lobbyist and lawyer
Sterne, refused the injunction, and the city was
compelled 30 pay the warrant which Sterne had
induced Havemeyer not to sign, with large costs
and counsel FEES
Sterne is q humDug reformer, an inventor OF
schemes, by which, through Green, ne has ln-
truded his insatale nav Into the city treasury
Tor redraftlng the Annexation act and 81 500
more .'lor business relating to West
CHESTER county" Tor one years service Ia tue
Legislature was Swlndle upon our depicted
and nearly bankrupt treasury. i protest against
II IN the name OF real reform, and assert with en-
tire conf dence tnat Mr.. Sterne mad no influence
the Chairman OF the judiciary Committee, and
otner Senators and Assemblymen named by him,
with the exception OF his conrrere oil the BrgnOli-
like, sweet tenor voice. Blumenthal
Icnalenge Mr.. Sterne to call these Senators and
Assemblymen before the Adermanc committee
to attempt TO dlsprOve what senator Caldwell
and myself have testified to. Yours truly.
MARCH 8, 1875. JOHN Is. HASKIN.