, 1876-01-23

idle rumors."
"ies, and giving you IN opportunity TO denJ
thom:
Well" responded LII. At1on. II don
want to deny them. I don't wait man o
stzzW set up and then have to deny What ht
SAWS. don't think any responsible man "a
ever told tho story you ASSUME. l can ssste
fairly and bquarey that the obtaining OF TN
city printing has never cost tho 1n1sr- ocea"
cent. There hasn't been dollar paid Tor ~,
thing OF the kind, either to City Clerk, TO tht
Mayor. to any Alderman. or anybody 1of 1nass ~
| to anybody for any purpose whatever. aHr1
shat never slated to anybody a. any tlme O
under any circumstances that there had peel
! ''Hava you ever heard" asked the reporter
shave you ever heard the story that Tom Foley
was paid 31.500 to secure the city printing foi
the Inter- Ocean; that he divided S5oo ~ ~ the
money amoug certain gentlemen, kept 95oo 5or
| himae.f. aud gave $500 to Mr. Mike Mcdonald =
] Il never heard the story that anybody was
paid ANYTHING Of the kind, At all neVss Until
this question OF yours"
"HAve you over heard before that A1r. -
sde any statement as eomne oeo from y0a f6at
ron had paid $500 over the g. 0o0 o1efed by hun
Tor the city printing"
mo; and furthermore don't believe that ha
| ever offered $1,000 for tho city printing"
have you eTer heard that he oHered sny-
thing
NO; never heard that ne one1ed cent
~A"N ~A"" ~A~
It. No 1 think these are al idle rumors, and
don't believe 4r. ever dld auythlng O. the
KIND. l th1nK thas No OF any other pnonsher
~on!o pe e1ceea!ne'y 1oohsn 70 UNDERTAKE 10
nay money 70 got the city printing.
Oid you haVo
ANT CONVERSATION WITH NR. ut ALL
selatlVe to the subject OF city printing
" dout say that bad not but don't RnoW
that n2a any conversation OF tno EMO 1
CONT recolect anything OF the Kind MI. -
has not been to sec mo about the city print
Ing that I know of and dons think that
We have oTer hnd any OCCASION to have slns1e
Word or remark about 1t; Ihe rcason ! don't
Ake to ta'k par'lcu'arly ABOUT tins thing Is SIM
Ply &nls tnas, 10 cetsan e3sent IL 10 Aomlt-
hng tue accusanon against Mr:- 50 % cor
foct: oont peiese 1nat ne ever ea1u any.nlng
OF sne KING. l aon oeAeve tnas ne ever one1ea
ANYTHING fcr tho city printing, OF wonld.'
20 5oa remember toas tne sooJect "as ever
menI1ohed ~ cou'ets2'aou oet"eou N1. ---
cont fecouec1 AWNING OF tne klno: Inc
onts thing thas l conld say positively ABOUT 1t
would be simply that there WAS never anything
said of anynoay being pald Anything 1or the city
printing.
"Are:yon a. sure the subject ct money Was not
hept1oneuf
Poylng for It r. demanded air. Nl1on.
''Ies, an sure Of it, because know there was
no MONEY TO BE PAID"
You think, then, that you NAV have had
eoulo AAuA ~ E0Af d4ea&!0A MILL AA1. - VI
the subject ?"
II have never talked with him great many
times, and l have no recollection OF having
talked with him about tho clty printing business
II Anv time; certainly nottN'th1n tue last year OF
t"o that Emo" OF"
"Ihl2 aiory relhtes 10 the contest OF s"o years
ago."
Yes Wen. IN regard to the matter OF TWO
years ago, was not one OF The proprlctora Of
the Inter- 0cean, and had no interest in 1t Whist
eyer."
''Wero you connected with ths paper ?"
Yes and had the handling And ps7.ne out Of
all the money. aud Know tbat there Wa4 no
money paid out for anything OF tho kind
"Do you reino1nber anything th.t happened
during the conversation between Mr. - and
yourself which brought up the question OF city
printing
told you just no" that DON'T recollect
eVer haslnt: hsd any conversation WITH him about
the c1t5 ptintlnS ons1ne8s 81 all' aoa you say
anything about It you might say that in my
oplnion an these stories are purely hct1s!ous'
foundatlon- would ike very well to have you
see Mr. .-- aud ask hlm whether ne ever did
'ay sqeh r' thing @ o. not" ,.ox ~ ~on u,.n,.x
the t11na that the contract WAs HVan tor the pub
hcation OF .
TIE TAx-II5x
to the Inter- Ocean -"
well, am going to stop now, because you
afe setting up man Of Straw foE me 10 LAX
about, and don't want to say anything fur
ther."
1T hiss been stkted that Buffalo Miller re-
ceived from the Iuter-Lcean oftics 10 comma
sions S1u,00o for giving that contract to tbs
Inter Ocean, /" suggested the reporter.
'Welt. that ia just OF ths character OF tbs
whole lot Of stories, and don't caro- about talk
ing Of them Any further"
them7"
w. .
,'. "'sa - ~ " ,;th;n@ har. do,,.
want ~ t.ll .nort than fnr,har
Would it bA impoIte 70 aak you il that con-