Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-18
ROOT IN FOR S2O,0OO Secretary of State Got Big Fees
 From Ryan Railroad.
FOR SERVICES RENDERED.

Moore & sehIey Were Paid Checks
 Assresatins $7,ooo,ooo by MetropoI.
 itan Securities Company and Ryan's
 Sons Got a Whack In Commissions.
 New York, Oct. 1S.-The public serv- ice commission and its counsel, Will liam NJ. Twins, went on another fishing expedition in the rolled waters of the Metropolitan and Interborough Trac- tion companies and despite many hard ships had splendid luck.
 Mir. Wins succeeded in landing on the record the fact that the law firm of Guthrie, Cravath x Henderson had been paid nearly $5OO,OO0 in fees and disbursements out of $1,1OO0OO ex- pended for lawyers by the Metropoli- tan Securities company and the New York City Railway company in five and a half years, that Secretary of State Elihu Root got $20,O0O in fees between the time he retired as secre- tary of war and his re-entry to the cabinet in his present position, that Moore X Schley, whose brokerage house appears to have enjoyed par ticular favor, were paid checks aggre- gating $7,OOO,OO0 between January and June. 1900, and that H. H. Vreeland in October, 1902, had about $3OOOOO in blind leash" transactions.
 Roots Services.
 Paul D. Cravath, attorney for the Metropolitan interests, who was called by MT. Twins, explained from the wit ness stand and also through a letter written Mir. Twins that the services performed by MT. Root were during the time intervening between his re- tirement as secretary of war in 1904 and his assumption of the duties of secretary of state in 1906.
 MT. Cravath said that when Mir. Root got out of office he immediately re- sumed practice of his profession and that as the fight against the franchise tax was then on he was retained by the Metropolitan company.
 MT. Wins record shows that the last payment to Mir. Root of $5,OO0 had not been made until the early part of 1906, at which time MT. Root was secretary of state. Mir Cravath explained this by saying that it was a part of his remuneration for the part he took in the franchise tax fight while he was out of office.
 Following MT. Cravath MT. Twins put on the stand Marvyn Scudder and that he and MT. Scudder had been at work a week trying to reconstruct the Metropolitan books, correcting the periods prior to 1902, which books, it had been testified, had been destroyed. MT. Twins told Mir. | Scudder to read the result of his inves- tigation of the stubs of the Metropoli- tan check books. ...x Ryan's Sons Profted Too.
 Mir. Scudder's testimony showed some remarkably large payments | to construction accounts. | Among them were portions of the sal aries paid several of the officers of the 
 Another item was the payment of $3,616, ,242.S9 to John D. Crimmins. MT, Twins said that Mir. Crimmins was a contractor and that this payment ap, peared to be in connection with his street railway contract.
 Mir. Scudder's testimony showed that more than S600O,00O has been paid to Moore X Schley. and Mir. Twins said that these payments were probably in with the purchase of the Third Avenue railroad by the Metro politan interests.
 He told Commissioner Wilcox that it would be necessary later in the in. quiry to take up the whole matter of the Third Avenue railroad purchase, and to that end he had subpoenaed Grant B. Schley of the firm of Moore X Schley and had ordered him to bring with him his books relating tG he transaction mentioned.
 Incidentally it was developed that Thomas F. Ryan's sons. who conduct l brokerage house under the name of 4. A. Ryan & Bro.. took a whack 1t the Metropolitan when there were my commissions to be earned. It was l repetition of the story told during he insurance investigation. The ia her. as one of the reOrganizers of he Washington Life Insurance com.