New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-30
Told Mayor About Warrant.

Told Mayor About Warrant.
\ little later Chamberlain Martin came
into the office. and 7 told him what | in
tended to do. About | O'Clock that cay
| have described above. He asked me Why
Mayor Mcclellan had taken the acuon ne
did. I told him that 7 did not know tna
reasons. He then asked NE what the war
rant represented and I told him that my
understanding was that IL was for services
in connection with disputed franchise tax
cases.
he then said to ne: we must he very
careful about passing large bills TO i iew-
yers in these matters" The Mayor then
said: If you had net told me about this
suppose the matter would have gone
right through in the ordinary course l
said Il presume that is what would have
nice Of You 70 SPEAK OF this 70 ne what
ought 20 be done about IT."
told him that # he Ea5Itsa ts met return
would be very glad 10 make a report 10
him upon u.
An examination of the warrant shows
there were ne erasuFss on it, face. The
Mayor said he never saw the warrant
until he gent for IL after the publication
of The Americans" story. II was un-
dersteed that It was sent back to ihs
office of the City Chamberlain from the
effiee Of the Mayors chief clerk in due
course, with ether warrants. All the
signatures en- the warrant were made
prior to January ! except that Of the
Harry Walsh, Deputy Chamberlain. on
January 4
Say Msyor Was Helpless.
Friends Of the Mayor said there was
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warrant so long as it was made out by
the Controller on duly audited claim.
Former Controller Herman Metz, speak
irg Of the Cohalan transaction last night,
said the claim went through the law
and adjustment division for audit. lie
added this statement:
The latter advised reduction Of s5,co0
and the settlement came 10 me for approval.
Mr.. Cehalan agreed 70 the reduction.
saw no reason TO treat his claim any diff
believe the matter could be got through
by January J. but he said he was salts
fed If 7 started the thing along. The war
trollsr Smith, sent 70 the Office of The
Mayors chief clerk for his signature aud
transmitted to she City Chamberlain for
on the way over the Manhattan Bridge
with the Mayor on December a / asked
him whether he had seen the cobsIsu
check stating that il had been approved
bv the Attorney General and the Corpora
ton Counsel that We had deducted $500
from the original claim. and that there
was no reason for holding it up; that if
did " might he construed as per
senal matter. and that il. had passed along
the rt zular channels 70 his Office
Mayor Mcclellan made no comments, but
upon returning TO the office later In the
afternoon the last thing / heard was that
the warrant and had returned it to the
Majors Office. This Of necessity left il
there until after the new administration
took Office.
The Rev. Or. Newell Dwight HILLS,
pastor Of Plymouth Church, BrooklvR,
who heard the speech Of Mayer Gayner
on Thursday night. made the folloW ing
comment en- il yesterday.
look lUpon the thirty turultous.
heated and vociferous minutes 81 the pub
fishers, dinner last night rs most i'm
for our people When the August air is
full of dust and mephitic gas. one bolt Of
lightning burns up the poison ana re
leases the cleansing rain. MAYER Gaynor
is 3 brave man and deserves the apprcha-
ton Of all patriots and good citizens.
OHloekers may have interpreted the
were on their chairs, shouting and refusing
80 allow Mr.. HssFst's publisher to speak,
as an illustration of the mob spirit. I
look ugcn II as proof that the news
lest their capacity for neral Indignation
aud their sbheFrenee of lies and hypocrisy.
The simple fact was that Mayor Gaynor
held iR one hand a draft drawn by Manor
McCiellans administration on December
81, and in the ether hand copy OF NThe
American, with that date Of December
81 carefully expurgated. the photographs
were una saii3bie.
The sunbeams do not tell lies, and the
Mayors statement carried ninety-niue men
ont Of hundred The Hearst newspapers
had scattered hundreds OF thousands OF
papers that tried tG fOist. by cutting out
the date an act OF Mayor McCiellan's upon
Nisvor Cfay.loF. and the trick defeated it,
self When Judge Gaynor had completed
his statement of the situation, and the
Heart publisher started 10 speak, waited
very anxioUsly TO see whether seven hun
dred newspaper men of this republic would
eountenance the attempt 10 stab the Mayor
in the BACK When they climbed on chairs
and for I'VE minutes hOWled The Ameri-
can down, Y said:
There is hope for my country"
After they had howlsd him down for
fifteen minutes. I said 20 myself
Justice and fair play and truth are
established forever IN Ihs minds OF the
when they shouted the man down for
thirty minutes, ] said.
IF every lawyer. every legislator. and
every merchant I'm this country goes
wrong, and betrays manhood, there is one
BODY of men that will not stand for the
shadow of the shade of tho possibility OF
lies and tricks for The promotion OF political
suIuities" And every five minutes of
yociferous Indignation against the defender
of that lying check added 10 my confidence
IN ths integrity, patriotism and honor ON
tho part OF the Newspaper men of this
The new era is on, In the realm 81
journalism, not less than IN eomniorce and
politics
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