The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-07-18

and all Of Quay's people were working
for Crawford and the result was that
overtures were made to Singerly to draw
Lennon out of the fight. He was prom
Used that if Lennon was taken out $780,
600 of the state money would be placed
on deposit in the Chestnut street bank.
This was done. Lennon was taken out
of the fight and the 100000 is in the
bank now. Crawford got the place.
and Mayor Filter got angry at what he
claimed to be a broken promise. Bards-
ley then paid Hugh Mullen 500 to re-
deem the promise to the mayor. II. II.
Yard, he said, got a great deal of the
Keystone bank money. He was in a
pool with Lucas and Marsh and Marsh
allowed him to overdraw his accounts
$4,000, even when the run on the bank
was going on McWade also asked
Bardsley if Judge Wilson had ever Dor
rowed money from him as city treasurer.
He said no; and on being asked what
judges had borrowed money he answered
in a whisper. Finletter and Ashman.
The money, he understood, was simply
an advance on their salaries: they did
not know whether he was lending state
monies, city monies or mis- own money. The
remainder of the statement was simply
a long story of Bardsleys troubles given
in his own words with numerous COM
mcnts, all of which contained no new
facts.
Postmaster General Wanamaker. who
had entered the room while Bardslcy's
statement was being read. stepped for
ward and requested to be allowed to
testify. II have said he. "been anxious
to appear ever since the question was
raised regarding the stock of which |
previously testified In answc to ques-
tons he said that his interest in the Key
stone bank arose out Of his acquaintance
with President Lucas and his brother,
when they were young merchants. He
stated that he never pledged oyer-issucs
stock after he was told it was over
issue and it was II of his
hands at the time. He did
not know II. II. Yard, and had evcrm met
Mrs. Lucas but once, and that was at an
interview about the oyerissucd stock.
lie was asked to give an account of what
transpired between him and Marsh and
Washington, and did so, stating that he
asked him to assist the bank and he de
clined, saying matters must take their
course. N~anamaker said that the bal
ance of his account in the Keystone bank
at the time of the run was $4,000. and
when it closed it was much larger. The
last money received from the bank was
about a year before the bank was closed,
and a discount was obtained in October.
1890. As to the story told by Bardsley
to McWade that he had to
threaten to close the bank un.
less he was paid for the over issues of
stock and that Lawyers Subberger and
Johnson had forced him to return it.
Wanamaker said, was absolutely false.
Granville b. Haines and Samuel b. Hucy
came to Washington to see him about
the ovcr-issued stock and he told them
he must settle for it and that if they did
not in justice to himself he should in
form the comptroller of the currency.
After the bank closed he gave upl the
stock, Bardsley's statement that Marsh
obtained S2OO,OOO for Wanamaker in
1880, he said, was absolutely untrue and
without the slightest foundation and in
viled the committee to inspect his
books. Wanamaker was then informed
by a member of the committee that
during the examination of the stockholm
of the Keystone bank they had found
$1,000 shares of the stock in his name in
addition to 2,ol5 shares which he testi-
fled had been given him by Lucas to use
as collateral for a deal in Reading stock.
"When | appeared before this committee
before" said Wanamaker, II confined
myself principally to the business of the
firm in my deals with Lucas in Reading.
] had in my head certain private matters.
but did not suppose the committee
wanted to hear of private operations.
Wanamaker again referred to the 2,5l5
shares which he had held as collateral,
and gave the committee a list of those
he had turned over to the Lucas estate.
That some of those shares had been
at one time in his name he did not state
as he had not used them in any opera
ton. In regard to stock which had been
found in his name G25 shares of it Wana-
maker said vas held by Iron a. Toland.
his bankers as collateral. This reduced
it to 1900 shares of stock. OF these five
blocks of POO shares each were dated
March 3, 1856, and while issued in his
name the power of attorney had been en-
dorscd 10y him and they could never have
been used. or those shares he had
absolutely no knowledge. The next five
blocks of POO shares each was dated two
weeks earlier, Feb. 3, 1854. He was a
director in the Girard Trust company
and Lucas came to him and asked him
to obtain him a loan of $4,000 on stock"
! have been Just foolish enough,
said Mr.. Wanamakcr, all my life to do
those things and | got money on stock
and gave it to him. Considerable time
afterward il was paid off by the Lucas
estate and they got the stock back. In
closing his testimony Wanamaker read
letters from Comptroller Lacey and AS
sistant Secretary Nettleton to show that
he had never influenced or delayed the
appointment for an instant of a receiver
for the Keystone bank.