St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-17
New York's Labor Commit
Sioner Runs Afoul Of the
Laws Majesty.
he Burned the Answers on
Which He Based His Fa-
nous Report
Futile Attempts Of a Com
mittee to Get Any Salts
faction From Him.
Gen. Stevenson Diseourses
Sound Democracy to North
CapOlinians

ALBANY, n. Y. Sept. 16.-The eX-
citement in political circles tonight is
intense over the afternoons develop
Tent over Commissioner Peck's annual
report, recently issued. on the tariff.
just before the police court was closing
today ex-senator Chase, accompanied
by District Attorney Eaton, both staunch
admirers of the eX-president, appeared
before Justice Guttman, and requested
that warrants be sworn out for the ar
rest of Commissioner Peck and his stem
ographer, Charles Rogers. Mr.. Rogers
was in court, and so was Edward Kean.
one of Peck's clerks, their presence
being due to- subpGnas served upon
them by Messrs. Chase and Eaton.
The proceedings in coult were con-
Quoted with great secrecy, but it has
come out that counsel for the prosecu-
tion say they produced affidavits and
got admissions from Rogers and Kean
that last summer Peck had paid So to
the janitor. a man named DenisOn, in
charge of the house where he (Peck)
lives during his stay in Albany, in re-
turn for which payment the janitor
was to ourn in the furnace quantity
of private papers which were no
longer of any use. The janitor is
alleged to have done what was
asked of him, but Messrs. Chase and
Rogers SAID he did not do his work thor
oughly, and they have charred papers
in their possession which they~aver are
parts of the original returns received by
Commissioner Peck from manufacturers
who responded to his request for lu-
formation to be used in his report.
On the strength of these alleged
proofs, together with the reported ad-
missions of damaging nature made by
the two employees of Commissioner Peck
summoned to court, Justice Cutie
man issued the warrants aked
was served upon Stenographer
Rogers and the other will be served
upon Commissioner Peck tomorrow
morning, when the examination of
both will take place in the police court.
The Offense charged is a niisdemeanOr
in destroying public documents, ana is
punishable byyimprisenment for~rf five
years, or $1,000 fine. or both. Peck, who
will he defended by Edwin O'Meagan,
was seen tonight, but refused to say
anything about this latest phase of the
controversy. brought about by his re-
port.
"A committee. S6nI by tIl0 udtlOudl
Democratic, comprising Hon. Nelson
Smith, J. Schoenhoff, F. Ellery Ander-
son and Edward +. McSweeney, called
on Commissioner Peck, of the state
bureau of labor statistics, this afternoon.
and labOred with him for over half an
hour to secure the names of the manu-
facturers reporting to him the effect of
the tariff on their respective Industries.
They also asked to see
The Individual Returns,
but Mr.. Peck held to his original state
ment that he would show nothing but
what was contained in his full annual
report, which was hardly what the COM
mittee was after.
Mr.. Smith acted as spokesman, and
when Mr.. Anderson interrupted Com
missioner Peck said that if MIR. Ander-
son did not keep quiet he would refuse
to have anything to do with the commit
tee. He would not recognize Mr.. Ander-
son in any way. The cross-tire between
Mr.. Peck and Mr.. Anderson at times
was very hot, the latter telling the for
mer not to be insulting. Finally Mr..
Smith read list of questions regarding
the preparation of the tariff report,
which, he said, if answered, would sat-
isfy the committee. Mr.. Peck said most
of the questions could be answered by a
reference to his report, but he himself
volunteered no answer to any OF the
questions. The upshot of the matter
was that the committee Ter New York
later. this afternoon without finding out
anything at all.