Bisbee daily review., 1905-04-27
RIGHTLY CALLED STEAL
Term Fits New York Custom
 House Rental Fraud.
LONG AN OUTRAGEOUS SCANDAL
scheme by Which the Government Pays Tribute to the City National Bank, n Standard oil Institutfon- A One sided Arrangement.

In the house of representative Feb q the fight of many years waged against the appropriation of $130.60C for rental of the old New York custom house resulted in the prevention Of the steal-for no other word properly de scribes it, says the CommOner.
 Mir Hemenway of Indiana, Republic an and chairman of the committee on appropriations, sought to carry the ap- propriation through. The Washington correspondent for the Detroit Free Press, referring to the contest on the floor of the house, said:
 ''The opposition was led by Mir. Sul- ger of New York, supported by MT. Viii Hams of Mississippi, the minority lead CT, both of whom denounced the expend- ture as a public scandal and in the interest of the Standard Oil company. which. it was alleged. was behind the National City bank. the purchaser of the building from the government
 Although the bank was alleged to have bought the property for $3000, 900 and to have credited the amount to the government, it developed that no title had passed to it and that in conse- quence 1t was paying no taxes to the state of New York. The failure of the government to give a deed was ascrib- ed to be due to the influence of the Standard Oil company"
 Replying to a question submitted by Mir. Williams of Mississippi. Mir. Hem. enway admitted that no deed was passed from the government to the bank and that the bank was not pay ing taxes for the building. While ad- hitting that Secretary Gage made "a bad contract" Mr. Hemenway insist ed that 1t was the duty of the govern. ment to comply with its terms.
 Mfr. Williams declared that the whole transaction was stamped with fraud and dishonor."
 Mir. Suizer, who made the motion to strike out the proposition for the ap- propriation, said:
 Tt Is a notorious scandal. a steal and a fraud, and I cannot understand why the City National bank has not been compelled to pay to the govern ment the S3,OO0,OO0 purchase money for the building instead of the money being simply transferred on the banks books except that it was due to the in- fiuence behind the bank Every one in this chamber knows what that in- f1uence is. It is the influence of the great Standard Oil trust that owns that bank and the influence that bank has had in governmental affairs of this country"
 Afr. Sulzer's motion to strike out the appropriation prevailed by q vote of SS Co 71. That was a good days work. and Messrs SuIzer and Williams and their associates are entitled to great 1 credit. The facts relating to thas affair need ] but to be stated in order that MT. Sul- zer's charge 6at it is "a notorious scandal, a steal and a fraud" be es- tablished. In January. 1900, the New York World exposed the fact that the Republican administration, having sold the old custom house to the City Ma tional bank, better known as the Stand ard Oil bank, instead of collecting the purchase price of 3,265, ,000 and de posting it in the United States treas ury according to law, had directed" the Standard Oil bank to credit" tho United States with $3, ,215 900.
 The World showed that this actually left the purchase price in the hands 0: the purchasers to loan out at the pre- vaiiing rate of per cent, while tta balance of the purchase price. SO0,0G0, was left unpaid, even by crediting it az deposit, and this was done in order to enable the. Standard Oil bank to avoid paying taxes to the local authorities on property. It will be seen that by this arrangement the bank obtained the use of all the money 1t was presumed to have paid for the purchase of the build ing and at the same time avoided pay ing taxes on the property, while the bank further sought to compel the gov ernment to pay to the bank rent for house was being evected.
 Congressman Hemenway has but re- gently been elected to the United States senate. Nothing has ever been said af- fecting NIT. Hamenway's personal in- tegrity. No one has ever charged that in his individual transactions he is capa- ble of dishoDorable act In this view is 1t not strange thst aIr Hemenway ss public ofacia would openly cham pion a plain steal simply because his party seems to require it?.
 Does 1t not occur 10 the thoughtful man that the Republican party re- quires great sacrifices at the hands of its representatives?
 Hemenway the man would not put his hand into the pockets of another to obtain prcat for himself Why, then, should Hemenway the Republican seek to put his hand into the pockets of the people in order that the Standard Oil bank might add to it's already large and unholy accumulations?
 Ample Work For an Extra Session.
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