New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-31
WCTLLAGH AND HIS CHARGES.
EVIDENCE OF NATURALIzATIoN FRAUDS
TO BE LAID BEFORE THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

TO BE LAID BEFORE THE UNITED
STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
John Mccul,aeh. the State Superintendent OF
Elections I'm the metropolitan district yesle'udy
received a letter from George +. Petit th'eu
states District Attorney for the Eastern District
Of New-York saying in part
write tn say that this Office stands ready 10
prosecute any offender aganst The taS N b
d i1wT snd has sways iaktn mat altitude
General Burnett. United states District Attorney
for tho Southern District OF NewYork. said yester-
dav that he had not received any communication
from Superintendent McCullagh regarding naturaH-
cation frauds.
Samuel H. Lyman, clerk Of the United states
District Court denied the statement that there
has been wholesale fraudulent naturalization
carried out i'm that court especially that full papers
had been granted to men on fa.se statements that
they were under eighteen years old when they ar
rived in this country. on the evidence OF PROBES
si0nal witnesses.
Superintendent McCullagh said yesterday: 4
have not sail that all these persons were natural
zad through fraud. There some. and the evil
dence which l have I will lay before the United
states District Attorney in day or two There
have been forty or fifty professional witnesses
used IN naturahzing lot Of foreigners know oil
one man who stood for nearly one hundred Of these
men"
/ Mr. Mcculiaeh then proved that one Of his depu-
ties had been secretary Of the citizens Pedlers
/ Organization OF Greater New-York, the headquar-
ters Of which Is al 10 70 Alen-st. Mr. McCullagh
/ in the presence of several reporters yesterday
called one OF his deputies. Mayer Romain into his
private office Under instructions from the Super
/ intendcnt Roman told his story in these words
Tn the middle Of last June | employed as a
/ deputy Of Superintendent McCulagh Under his
Pcdicrs Grganizaton Of Greater Ncw-York, at
30. p Allcn-st have been WORKING as a pea!eT
for three months, during which uWe nave Iet l.'
/ the secrets ~ the organization l was hrst ap,
pointed recording secretary ana was then pIomote9
10 financial secretary, ana hed mat position uhlll
/ last night The meeting began about $50 O'Clock
littie afier CLOCK Iep2Ivl Ta,et c,, ~ 1r
/ Prcsd'nt Hrouhard ana to,i MN 'nat ~
/ tcndent McCullagn had made a statement 10 the
/ Of his deputies The president called me out into
/ the hallway and asked me II ! was one Of Nc
Other rcpor,lr called and was again asked The
/ same question. again denied n as ! was airal,
irohabv he himself was referred TO- as he had
served as Il deputy for twenty days last year.
/ President Grouhard then addressed the meeting IN
/ Hebrew ana explained this 10 all the pedlers. lie
/ also told them that McCuagh was making BLUM.
/ ana that he trying TO scare the people ana 10
prevent them from putting in their votes on klec1
/ then suggested TO the president 10 adjourn tne
meeting. it was useless TO burn the gas any
later. The president ala adjourn the meeting IN a
neiIS' ana sp br gu eS hit they viii ger nv
| resignation as financial secretary
Mr. McCullaeh explained that Groubard had been
recommended as a deputy last year 10y the Re
/ publican party. After serving twenty days he re-
signed. having gone over TO Tammany ana ac-
cepted place as keeper Of Ludlow Street jail.
where he now is.
Judge Thomas disputes the figures Of the Super
intcndent II Elections in regard to the number Of
men naturalized in the United States Court I'm
BROOKLYN The records show that instead OF 300
persons having been naturalized from January TO
August 10 1899. as declared by Mr.. MCCulagh. only
3GS applications FOR citizenship were made In that
time Or these applications about t~o hundred
/ We're rejected
Another overdrawn statement OF Mr.. McCullagh
according 30 the United States officials Ia Brooklyn
was his declaration that IN the Court FOR the East
b crn District Of New Ork vast majority OF the
500 men naturalZed came under the law relating
10 minor chill Ircn The records. they say. show
that IS per cent u the 1858 men naturazed In the
year came under the minority law.
In regard 10 the statement that some men had
appeared as witnesses many times, United States
Commissioner Morle explained that these men We're
officers in societies or had places OF trust among
their country men that made them sought after and
Vdluol as witnesses by seekers after naturalization
papers. The Commissioner added thar tho only
plcant reeulted ia both mpersona tor and witness
being lodged in JAIL where they now are.
". arc living in day Of sensations said
Jldge Thomas 81 believe Mr. McCullagh is doing
what NJ thinks is right. aud that ne is not simply
support his statement by the charge that there
have been any great frauds practsed in this court
then bis statement - false