The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-13
MORE J0bBERY.
Voorhees, Investigating Com
mittee Hears sensational
Testimony.
NOVEL USE FOR A CHECK BOOK
Translating Figures Expensive
One Way to Beat the Govern
ment and the Railroads.
NOVEL USE FOR A CHECK BOOK

Special to the Jersey City Nelrs.
TRENTON, April 10, 1s95.-of all the
curious exhibits produced before the
Senate Investigation Committee, at Tren-
ton, yesterday, the check book OF
Heinz & Co., printers, OF Newark, is
by long odds the most extraordinary,
and when it was opened by Mr.. VIM.
H. CCrbin TO dig into large and numer-
Gus mounts paid to the firm by the
State for printing the laws, etc, IN Ger
man, the committee, counsel, witnesses
and crowded galleries roared with laugh
ter. The ingenious clerk of the firm
had cut out all the checks. and over
the stubs, covering the figures of checks
drawn, were pasted a splendid collection
of photographs and cuts of ballet dane
ers, high kickers. ladies with Worth
costumes, ana some in costumes not
worth speaking about-statesmen, Grim
inaIs, sports and Jockeys. The commit
tee stared in amazement. and Senator
Skirm said, Indignantly
.sThere's no end of expedients to get
rid of tell-tale books. Some are lost,
others mutilated, some eaten by mice,
and here is one that is pasted up.
Laughter.)
Heinz remembered minute details con-
nected with the receipt of checks, but
his memory failed when Mr.. Corbin got
him to the point of telling what was
done with the proceeds. One check for
81, $50, which the Legislature had ordered
paid to Heinz's company. Heinz said
ex-Assemblyman McDermit of Newark
got cashed after Heinz had endorsed
it. McDermit retained s2,095 for his SER
vices as counsel for advances made and
for his services in getting the bill
through the Legislature. He paid Heinz
s655.
McDermit, when called as a witness,
corroborated this story. He said his bill
was straight.
81 am surprised that you gave Heinz
anything" said Senator Skirm.
"On reflection SO am l." replied Nc
Dernit. 81 ought to have kept it all.
1t did Heinz no good"
BEATING THE RAILROADS.
Mr.. Corbin then began with the matter
of transportation on the railroad fur
nished by the State, and read a list
containing several huE tals of names of
those who had tra "a on the passes
at the reduced te of two cents a
mile on sm service" From the
list 1t APPS that when Mrs. A. G.
Cough, the janitrix Of the State House,
and her friends, Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
! Macguire, wanted to go to Asbury Park
or Manunk Chunk during last summer
all they had TO do was to apply to the
Quartermaster General for a pass and
there they were. 1t was as easy as roll
ing off a log. For the four years up
to May, 1894, the State had paid 5000
for passes issued to ex-Superintendent
Ford, and 1922 on passes issued to the
Executive Department. This transporta-
| ton had been furnished by the Quar-
| termaster General on the order of Gov.
Albeit as commandments. the
Q-uartermaster General was empowered
| to issue military transportation to me
railroad ticket offices received gave
tickets for. Most of the orders to Ford
! were made out in his name. although
he had passes over the railroads as a
State official. Some OF were passes
Samuel S. Armstrong, chief clerk in
the Quartermaster Generals office, tes-
tilted tina Governor Albeit had direct
| ed the issue OF the orders for transporta-
| Governor Werts issued a similar order
in May, 1893, but restricted it to en-
ployes travelling on the States bust
FORD IN TT AGAIN.
Mr.. Corbin read from a long list which
Armstrong had compiled the names. OF
persons who had received tran 5 4b;ad n
the orders. They were for tickets to
Jersey City, Newark, Elizabeth. Belvi,
dere, Long Branch, Manunka Chunk and
What In the world does. any State
employee have to do at Manunka Chunk"
asked Chairman Voorhees,.
! and the railroad from Trenton only
runs that far" replied Mr.. Corbin.
All the clerks and employees ABOUT the
Ford's orders. A committeeman sug-
| gested that those made out in Fords
lame were probably sold by him, and
"Why, that's highway robbery" gasped
n ten per cent.Sin that comment
| ed Senator Skirm; that's more tnan g
Samuel Gordon, the Governors colored
messenger; Executive Clerk Fox ano
sS22 worth of transportation furnished
the. Executive Department.
John H. Bonnen, the present superin,
during his one, years service, he hat
found occasion but once to send an EN-.
ploye out of the city. Then he hat
paid his fare and collected from the
State Treasurer. In this case the &C
ton had been taken in order to save
great expense to the State. Eugene
Murphy, the former bookkeeper of Null
iins & Co., told the committee that Fore
had several times furnished transportat
ton to men employed by Mullins
PRINTING JOBBERY EXPOSED.
The greatest sensation occurred yeSter
day when Mr.. Corbin unearthed some
Notwithstanding the translation into Ger
man OF the laws and State reports, ant
who has for thirty years past actec
as expert for the State in auditing print
ing bills. HIS said that in the report O.
the Board of Education for 1888. TN
men employed to translate the wori
into German had charged and been paft
for translasing more than q thousane
pages of tables, in which the only German
printing was the headings. The figures
and other matter was the same as il
the English publication.
Who is the translator" asked Chair
Judge Albert Hoffman of Hoboken,'
replied Mr.. Corbin.
Europe. SAID, Mr.. skirm, sareastically
ii did,. added one of his colleagues
and there followed 2 general laugh.
.From your observation" asked Mr.
Corbin of Expert Bechtei, was Their
any demand for these rat volumes Il
"No, sir; there are 5000 copies of Gov
ernor Werts' message, with leaves uncut
now in the basement
1t came out that Judge Hoffman drew
at least $4,000 salary as Judge, and il
nine years had collected over Sl5,oW a.
o~fficiaI translator for the State, Las
man printing was one. In the .othe
wears his receipts. ran from Sl,5n IL
1891 TO 2.S91 in 1888.
spo yoh. mean to say, put in MI