Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-10
GOODSELLA ALSO
HAD MUCH CASH
Probers Find Senator's kc-
count Duplicates Bedell's
meet Again Wednesday.
TAKE HOLIDAY TO-DAY

New York, sept. 10.-Graft probers
took Il holiday today, but the agents of
the legislative Investigating committee
are said to be still hard at work delv-
ing for material to be used at the in
| quiry.
The investigating committee will
hold its next meeting on next Wednes-
day morning, when the examination of
former Senator Louis f. Goodseli of
Orange county will be resumed.
One of the chief features of the pro-
ceedings has been the demonstration
that, as far as developed, the traction
interests played no legislative favor
ties. After 1t had been shown that
Assemblyman Bedell had had deposit
ed with Ellingwood & Cunningham
the sum of $24,281, it was revealed
that ex-senator Goodsell had deposited
to his credit with that brokerage firm
$24,S00. All but $1,000 deposited in
Mr.. BedelPs account has been traced
to Its source, and all but $4,000 of the
sum deposited to MFR. Goodsell's ac-
count has also been traced. In each
80 S~NH
case the source was either officers Of
the New York city traction companies
or the Street Railway Association Of
New York State. The failure to trace
to its source some of the deposits
was explained by the fact that after q
certain date there were no entries in
the back of check books to show the
cOIyran nf nhnoI1 roooFx@l .,.. ..4.sou
after that date being made in a deposit
book. That deposit book has not been
found.
While the totals deposited to their
credit and the totals traced to its
source in the cases of ex-Assembly-
man Bedell and ex-senator Goodseli
were nearly alike, there was q sub
stantial difference in the amounts
drawn. Assemblyman Bedell had a
total credit of more than $1,000 greater
than the total of his drafts, whereas
Mr.. Goodsell drew the sum of the de-
posits to his credit, less only $59.TG.
There was naturally some eagerness
to know why such a sum had beer
left undrawn, but the accountants ex-
planned that the sum had been charged
as interest, so with his last draft Mr..
Goodsell balanced his account.
Senator Goodsell, who introduced the
bill giving the perpetual and extended
franchise to the Fifth Avenue Stage
company and granted it the right to
charge 10 cents fare, received from Fl.
A. Robinson IN April q, 1900. $1,000
| fhnt 10 NJ pnhinonn ohiaf noYncDl
of the Metropolitan, deposited on that
day with Ellingwood & Cunningham
$4,000, which "a placed to Mr.. Good
sells credit. That was sixteen days
after the bill was passed and four
days before Governor Roosevelt sign
ed 1t.
An interesting development of that
occurrence of ten years ago was that
the bill favoring the New York Trans
p~ortation company had not passed the
assembly and up to Governor Roose-
welt without protest. Then Assembly.
man Fitzgerald had moved to recon
slider the vote by which the bill was
passed, d~enouncing it sas a graft bill,
and twenty-five menfsers of the as
| SSDlDlI 9 must VI litlh llOli LNCW 1Olh
city, had voted to reconsider the vote
by which the bill had been passed and
sent to Governor Roosevelt as one OF
the thirty day bills.
Senator Goodsell said he had known
G. Tracy Rogers well for many years
and was aware of the fact that Mr..
Rogers. as president of the Street Rail-
way association, spent much of his
time in Albany during sessions of the
legislature. He said he presumed that
! Mr.. Rogers was there looking after
the business Of street railway compa-
MES. He had become acquainted with
the firm of Ellingwood & Cunningham
in 1900, he thought, but could not re-
call who had introduced him. He was
quite certain that it was not Mr.. Rog-
ers and had an impression that he had
been introduced to the firm by a mem
Der of the legislature.
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