The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-16
THEY GOT 100000.
Story of the Peeulations Of Greene
and GaYnor.
THEY HAVE ABOUT s1o,ooo,ooo
Heavy Imports of Steel at PhiIadeI-
phia-Annexation of
Cuba. s@ssg

From, The-.Jo.sr,,aI Bureou, Room AS, Post
Building, Warrington. 49,
Washington, July 16.-John C. Gaynor
and Benjamin D.. Greene have managed
pretty vel in keeping out of the clutches
Of the law. The crime Of which they are
accused was committed, according to the
governments evidence, previous to July
l, 1897 The conspiracy to defraud the
government in harbor work was formed
in 1891. According to the evidence which
convicted Captain Oberlin M. Carter the
| first division of spoil occurred Dec. Is of
that year, when Carter deposited $4,000
to his account. The evidence in the Car
! ter trial showed that the stealings were
divided into thirds, for the benefit re-
spectively Of Carter, Greene and Gaynor.
| From these records 1T is possible to ap-
proximate the amount for which the gov
ernment was bilked. The total OF Car
ter's third amounted, July 6, 1887, to
| $724, ,103.02. OF this amount there was
| evidence and full proof of the various di-
visions produced at the courtmartial. The
share Of Greene and Gaynor was double
this, or 81, 1,448,206.O4, and the total amount
stolen $2,172 ,309.06. This will serve to
explain how it hapens that Messrs. Greene
and Gaynor can pay counsel fees sufficient
! to retain about all the highest public Of
ficials of Canada. The accused were not
poor men when they. got these contracts.
/ It is proved that Carter invested his
money. in: gilt edged railway, securities
which have doubled and quadrupled in
! value since ten years ago. 1t is con-
servative, therefore, to say that Greene
and Gaynor have, $10,o00,000 in ready
money or convertible securities which
they are prepared to use to keep out oi
the penitentiary. 1t Is now more than
three years since Carter was convicted
and his fellow conspirators-as they are
charged with being-are still living al
fashionable hotels at summer resorts.
Attorney General Knox is beginning te
chafe at the delay. He feels that he has
somewhat of professional reputation tc
sustain:
Heavy Imports of Steel.
Tariff revisionists will find much COM
fort in a news item published in the
Philadelphia Press of last I Thursday
morning. 1t says that the Red Stal
steamer, Pennland, from Antwerp, ar
rived at the Philadelphia port a few days
before with one Of the heaviest cargoe'
in the ports history It included, amon'
other things, 1,407 tons of Bessemen steel
7SS iron joists, 200 steel boomers ant
3,S42 sheet bars, all of which paid th'
Dingley import duty and was consigned
IT, Anne rican firms which will use the cargt
in the fulillment of home contracts
The Press story says in part:
I Nearly every one Of the line steamship
coming to Philadelphia from points on tn
/ continent and United Kingdom have sirnila
consignments on board, and several days ag
the steamship Matilda sailed from Wes
Fartlepool for this port with 5000 tons {
pig iron.
The purchase of steel and iron in Grea
!. Britain and on the continent for use
America has attained tremendous proper
: tions.- ..5. y. r---- :-~.srs% = -
III It is stated that the markets of Great Brit
{ ain and Germany are being stripped of a
their surplus product. Owing to this gres
iron and steel famine, sshipyards both hel
: and at Newport News. and Baltimore al
2 greatly behind with their Contracts. At pre-
2 ent it Is simply Impossible, for the steel plan
in America to cope with the demand. tt
furnaces of the steel plants are now runnr
night and day.. but they cannot keep abrea
{ of their orders. This truth Is due principal
) to the manufacturers having made no PR
Z Z vision for the increase. Of orders this year
The steel shipped here from Europe for tt
s | American trust is not OF, the finished prof
6 uct, but in the shape, OF slabs and biilet
3 which are rolled into the desired shapes.
Commenting upon thesealarge iron and ste'
. / imports, a well-known steamship man sal
=
ing many of the liners from running in deb
because the outward 5cargoes, which ha1
8 i always Been depended: upon for profits, ha
dropped&off to simply nothing -, ~
{ - Annexation of. Chba. -.
z'I consider all talk of the annexatio
: of Cuba at the present time absolutel
q brutal" said Representative Cooper, {
= wisconsin, chairman Of the house com
2 mittee on insular affairs. -
= eve have launched Cuba as a new re
Z |pEblic among the nations of the worl
3 and it would certainly not be in keepin
k1swith our pledges to her and to the worl
4 i--certainly not within the spirit, If with
3 in the letter, of these promises-if, befor
q q her government has been given an oppor
{ tunity to demonstrate what 1t could dt
3 we should inaugurate movement for an
nexation. Ne doubt many wealthy Amer
+ leans having large financial interests !
l@ Cuba: as well as the ,wealthier classe
= there, would prefer annexation ITO a Gu
ban republic, but + consider 1t brutal
. undertake to force annexation on tn
): island, which 7 believe is the object {
!. those who favor annexation at the presen
o time The agitation of the question ca
s have but one result, to discomfort tn
. Cubans with their government by shown
Q them the great advantages of commercts
e and political union with the Unite
, States @,&. - - f@5a ,'#ss5 @s@1sst7 4
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