The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-27
MR.. n. G. STUART.

Henry Stuart made the suggestion Now
you say that Judge Crump made sug
gestions. Is this so?
Ans. Yes, sir. / hold here q copy
marked by Judge Crump. interlined by
him.
Both Suggested 1t.
Ques Were there two suggestions OF
elimination?
Ans Yes. sir.
oues one by Mr.. Stuart of your letter
of April 18th, and one from Judge Crump,
of your letter of May 22d?
Ans Yes. sir.
CUES. Did you have any personal COM
munlcation with the members of the
commission referring to your letter Of
May 23d?
Ans. Yes. Mr. Stuart said that there
would undoubtedly be suit, as Mr..
Royal had made Il demand of my
charges" and urged me to make the
changes for my own sake.
Ques. You stated that Mr.. Stuart sug-
gested that you cut this out as a pro-
lection to yourself? In your letter of
May eth you said the same thing, and
mated because Judge Crump did own
one share OF stock in the Virginia Cor
poration Company. Were the elimina-
lions made for your benefit only?
Ans. Yes, sir. The reason did not
make public the fact of Judge Crump's
owning stock was because l was anxious
not to bring 1t out.
| CUES. Why?
Ans. Because had expressed my
| opinion freely of the others who had
| owned stock, and thought would be
| Judge Crump, and could not do so.
| Cues Turn to your communication Of
| May ed. The reports INTENSIFIED
What did you mean7
Ans. mean that Mr.. Tyler CONTINUED
to carry the records of the office to the
offices of the Virginia Corporation Com
pany.
Cues. Do you mean to say that this
was done after your report?
Ans. do.
CUES. Have you witnesses to this?
| Ans. Yes, l have Captain Barron and
Miss Molly Powell.
| CUES. When were they removed?
Ans. May 3lst.
Cues. Was any restraint placed upon
Tyler or Newly after your report?
Ans. No, sir. Not on Tyler
Cues. Explain more fully the exact diff
ference made By Judge Crump In tho
formation of charter department. and
/ what other changes were made.
AIS. NNlT. " pSEuT sEeau1 at length from
! the statement" made by Judge Grumpy
He then said that he had always handled
the charters. and that he was an expert
railroad man, and had been chosen as
clerk because of his knowledge of rail-
4 road rates. Mr.. Richard Il. Wilson, an
estimablc man, was put In as rate man,
He had been with the Farmville and
i Powhatan Railroad II narrow gauge road,
/ about seventy-tlve or ono hundred miles
/ long.
CUES. What duties were left to you?
Left With No Duties,
Ans. None. If ] had regarded the orders
OF the commission. | did not regard
1! mission would have gone to rack and ruin
The reports of railways We're not check
ed up and were a mass of worthless
| printing. went to Norfolk, and when
returned found that Captain Bar
row had been discharged. put him
| hack 10 work without saying anything
to the commissioners about 1t, for was
not willing for the work of the COM
| missioner or S,r the State OF Virginia to
1 suffer.
Mr. upshur then said with feeling;
THE rates were placed In the hands
Of Mr. Stuart. | don't know how much
no knows about rates, nor what expert
,ence 10 had had. daughter, In which
Mr., Stuart jolned,l
The whole tenor of Mr.. Gpshur's testi.
mony WAS to the effect that he alone
saved the work of thc Corporation Com
mission, aud that he did the work even
after the commissioner had placed II In
other hands,
CUES, DO YOU know anything else that