The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-28
CORTELYOU AND BLISS
 WILL HAVE TO TESTIFY
JOHN DOE PROCEEDINGS TO TEST LEGALITY OF CAMPAIGN
 CONTRIBUTIONS.
Blank sabpoenas Issued nt R .a.....

SuDpOenaS Issued at Reuuesti =.
 District Attorney Jerome to "
 served on Insurance Men and Others
 concerned in Making, Receiving or
 soliciting Insurance Contribut;on.
 Every Effort to be Made to Get pro-
 ceedings Under Way To-day.
 New York, March 27.-District Attor ney Jerome to-day appeared beaofA Maglstrate Moss in the Tonbs nolsca court and applied for warrants to ha used in testing the legality of the con- trroutions of insurance oomnan;as, funds to political campaign corn,,,i+ tees. The names of no person or nar. sons were mentioned at the time. Afta. !istehlhg to MT. Jerome, Magistrate MOSS stated that before he would iss,,a any warrants in the matter, eyidencA "ouId nave to be presented +ha+ crime had been committed. To estah~ llsh thls evidence Mr Jerome asISad 4ar ule Issuance of a number of s1bpoanas lil plank to be used in John Doe, nrn- ceealngs before magistrate. Iata ;n tne day these subpoeans were issued
 It was said at the district a+torns,y,e office that every effort wonld ha ,,.azs co get the proceedings under way to- morrow. All the evidence at the dis posal of the district attorney it was stated, would be presented to the canrt and then it would remain with ina magistrate as to whether or not war; rants should be issued.
 Tn taking this action today M, Jerome is carrying out the polinv ba announced before Justice Ossu1iiva, N the court of special sessions last E,r,- day when he defended the opinion he had previously rendered that there had been no crime committed in connectian With the campaign contributions. T,s- tlce OSullivan ruled, however. thaf # It could be shown there was an infan+ to defraud the rightful owners of tba property 1t was for the grand jurvlto say Whether or not the case was t,ha or larceny He so instructed the erand Jury and urged the grand 1ur~ors to fearlessly investigate the matter and not to seek shelter in the face of an un4 pleasant duty. MT. Jerome asked .Jus- tice O'Sulliyan if he would not. sittinp as a magistrate, issue a warrant far the arrest of George w. Perkins, forner vice president of the New York I saa, \, surance company, in order that a writ of habeas corpus might be obtained. and the matter taken at once to tha highest court MT. Jerome also stie- gested that if contributing to campaign committees by officers of the insurance companies constituted larceny, the mat ter involved Chairman George B. Cor telyou and Treasurer Cornelius N. Bliss of the republican national campaign committee, in matter of receiving stolen goods.
 Justice OSullivan declined to act in the case saying there were plentv of magisterial courts before which fhA matter could be placed and the war rants secured
 Before Magistrate Moss issued the blank subpoenas requested by District Attorney Jerome to-day, he examined Darwin F Kingsley, vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, who appeared before him. Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer, and several en- ployes of the New York Life, were ex- amined in the district attorneys office this afternoon It was stated tonight that MT. Perkins has agreed to appear at the proceedings tomorrow.
 It was leaEned to-day that the grand jury has not asked District Attorney Jerome for any more evidence in the in surance cases beyond what he furnished the jury several days ago.
 District Attorney Jerome reported to Judge O'Sullivan to-day that each member of the grand jury has received a telegram from New York newspaper inquiring whether the jurymen intend to be guided in Investigating the in- matters by the advice of O'sul- livan or by that of District Attorney Jerome. MT. Jerome declared that he had no interest in the matter bud thought the judge might want to charge the jury on it. The judge re- piled that the matter was absolutely put of the pale of court Jurisdiction and Mir. Jerome left the court room