The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-16
HULME CONFESSES.
Tells the Senate InVestigat-
ing Committee About IN
terest on State
Monies.
ToFFEY's CLEAR STATEMENT
More Crookedness in State Print
ing Contracts = Queer Book
keeping Methods Revealed.
ToFFEY's CLEAR STATEMENT
special 10 TIC Jersey Citp Ne,cs.


The first witness was Otto Heintz CT
the Heintz Printing Company of New
ark, which from 1889 to 1888 printed many
State documents in German. He testi-
fed that in 1858 he did not bid fer the
work because John Kuser OF the New
Jersey "Freie Zeitung" of Newark paid
him $500 not to bid. He subsequently
returned $3.50 to Mr.. Kuser because
I<user told him he had not got all the
work he expected and had lost money.
He admitted that the 5000 which Frank
McDerrnit kept out of the $3.50 which
the Legislature paid in 1892 was McDer-
motifs fee for getting the bill through
the Legislature.
Mr.. Corbin then examined the witness
en- his books. which were shown to be
in the same condition for the period i'll
which the company did business with
the State as others heretofore produced
before the committee For long period
in 1892 there were no credits on the cash
account, and Trefz's account appeared
to be closed by forced balances. The
witness could not explain the books and
said that his attention was then called
to them for the first time The same
old story
COULDN'T ENPhAIN TNdH THE DIFFER
Mr Corbin showed bill to the State,
rendered in October, 1888, for s2,7141S,
Helnt1 said he cashed eli the First Ma
tional Bank of Trenton On November
L the same n I bill was entered in Heintz
DOCKS at 81, ,533 IL. Heintz was questioned
at length as TO what became of the diff
ference but could net remember posi-
lively Nv ely A He thought that he paid back
In 1892 three firms. tba wi+ness said
his, firm the "Freie zeitung'' Of Newark,
and a man named Smith in Elizabeth,
1000 copies of the Governors message ses
Witness did all the printing and sold to
tne others. The matter of translating
eanle up at this po-nt. and Senator DAILY
Il have been Informed that the transla-
tion by Mr.. Hoffman cost fifty per cent.
ay aye one one hundred per cent. less than It
Well, # it was done for one hundred
Corn1n. I'VE must have got it for moth
,"oh, / mean 50 per cent" hastily ex-
ettaaed MT paly as al present laughed
Princeton. told of how. in 1sss sihfer ba I'D d
70 70 cents per thousand ems fer printing
n n nseFnra GeFman the report Of the Factory
OF the Board of Education. HIS only
e9mnet55or %bes hd 7s was John Kgsers paper
the contract although ne eia was noF the rees1we ow
est bidder; When pressed to tell why he
SAID that he only had facilities for doing
tine f1aet2ry or report tSa wheh was much
..1nhu KusE8 BOUGHT HIM. OFF.
zvor1 aW1hy sdn did J., you not get the snaller
were entitled to it under the law
have to take it all or. none"
ia co t1lo1r
strange, as the law provides. for giving
part or whole of the work to the low
est b. bidder Ter. Robnson said that he tried
clined.
After some close questioning, the wit
troller notified him that ne had received
the contract, and that Kuser then came
to see him at PRINCETON, and. agreed
and $500 in cash to Withdraw his bid and
allow ISuser 10 get the whole job at 76
cents. This he did. and received the
PRoFTTABLE TRANsLATING.
Several German citizens of Newark
who were employed 10y Kuser to trans
late the reports and laws into German,
cents a page for translating and proof
reading. The State paid Kuser for the
same work an average of seventy cents
Mr. corbin then took up the accusa-
tons which have been made thet certain
ei eeiTed bonuses emu for deposting % As Stale s
ed in yesterdays News" He said n
view Of ther he's reports it was but sis
charges. He then read the laws govern
ing the care of the State funds and
read the various b, BALANCES s which Whieh . were
during the terms of the three last Treas-
urers
OUR SHERIFF. ExPLAINs.
Sheriff Toffey was then sworn and
testified that during the six years OF
rowed about S35,cOO. He said he was
to deposit State money, and pointed
with pride to the fact that he never
lost a dollar of State funds, He de-
ceived any money for depositing in
banks ncp authorized any one to receive
money for him
and Assemblymen to use banks. He al
ways investigated the bank, and If 1t
was sound he gave them some of the
funds He tried to distribute the funds
around as evenly as possible.
The Sheriff asked permission to make
9 statement. and said that during. the
House he tried to protect, the State.
When Ford came into office he was very
careful about approving his bills. When
lumber or coal and the like were ordered
he made careful inquiries TO ascertain
if it had been delivered. Of course he
did not weigh the coal or measure the
lumber, but he took all precautions to
protect the State Once he called Ford's
attention to the fact that his expendi-
lures were running too high. Ford had
a larger building than he had, still his
expenses were too high. He thought
that $4,000 ought to be enough to run
the present State House He thought
Ford's amount of $71000 altogether too
ADMITTED THE BRIBERY.
George r. Gray, Colonel Toffey's sue
cessor, and George b. Swain, the present
Treasurer, both testified that they had
deposited State funds in Burlington
county banks, but had not received any
bonus for so doing or authorized any one
ta receive it for them.
Joseph Hulme of Mount Holly. clerk
in the Treasurer's Office, who is accused
of receiving bonuses from the Burlington
banks. followed. He said that with the
orally remained long time in the banks.
money from toe banks for deposits.
Certain parties in Burlington were MAX
ing bitter war upon him and he was
looking around for means to defend him
self He understood that the. banks We're
willing to pay HIM for his trouble and
influence in sending deposits to. the bank
and for political purposes, and he made
the arrang gements with them. No State
Treasurer ever received cent Of the
money or knew that witness did. He
used 1T all for political purposes.
Mr. Slzirm asked him IL he Thought he
was doing right to use the State 81 money