The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-02-09
Accused New York LaWmaker
Denies all Charges
AULDS WINS FIRST POINT
conger Forced to Publish His Charges
BY Vote Of New York state Senate.
H. G. Moe, Says conger, Gave
the Bribe.

Albany, n. Y, Feb. o.--The wheels Of
state government stood still yesterday,
while The 81 members Of the senate in.
vestigated charges Of bribery against
one Of their number.
A little platform four feet square was
dragged into the chamber, leather arm
chair was placed upon It, ard when the
Senate convened it was found that the
room was transformed into a count.
Witnesses who occupy this chair dur.
ing the next few days or weeks are ex.
pected to prove whether or not Senator
lothian P Aids OF chenango county took
$1,000 in payment for bis influence in
stiaing 4 certain bin. Senator Aids has
made a sweeping denial Of the charge
and upon his accuser, senator Benin Con.
ger Of Tompkins county, rests the bur.
den Of proving bis assertions.
The scope Of the investigation was the
question that aroused the most interest
when the Senate went into the committee
Of the whole yesterday morning to begin
its inquiry. The impression was that
the inquest would be rigidly confined
to the charges fled.
Senator Cougsr charged that Aids,
while a member Of the assembly on or
about April rs, 1901, received and ac
cepted $1,000 az 4 consideration for hav.
ing RETAINED from pressing for passage
a certain bin pending before the public
The particular BIN was not designated.
nor were any names officially brought
into the matter, excepting those 81 the
two principals. It is IS years since the
Senate has been asked to consider
charge ike this against one Of its mem
bers Five times IN the last 40 years
similar inquiries have been instituted.
IN no ease have the charges have been
sustained.
Senator Aids has IS his counsel Lewis
Carr Martin w. Littleton, Lewis K.
Griffith and Danforth III Aiusworth.
while senator congers legal STAFF com
prises James W Osborne, Augustus Van
Wyck and David +. Van Hosen.
As soon a. Lieutenant Governor White
had called The senate to order in com,
mittee Of the whole. he designated sen
ator George A. Davis 81 Buffalo to pre-.
side at the inquiry Senator Davis or.
iered the clerk to read the charges filed +
BY eonger
The answer & enator Aids was then
read Mr. Carr promptly voiced the ex
pected demand for q bill Of particulars
declaring that the charges are not spe.
,iac
@We are entitled to know" he said
in whose presenee the senator from
The 4lst district saw delivered the mon.
syj the name Of the person or persons
from whom she money Yves demanded
and the specific bin which II IS alleged
rss not pressed 70 passage"
carr's request was vigorously opposed
n Van WICK "saeh information would
My put the opposition on their guard,
ie asserted and il would Be unfair %
.oRpel b u furnish II"
Senator Conger however, was forced
o ale a sworn Bill Of particulars. He
declared that the person who delivered
1000 To Aids on Or about April %,
90l, was Hiram G. Noe of Groton,
ronpkins county This sum, &c as.
erted, was demanded BY Aids Of Benin
longer and Frank coneer in the inter-
sts Of The American Bridge company
a corporationl.n
The particular bill referred to IN his
barge, declared conger, was an act
mending the highway law introduced
v Assemblyman Stevens and Senator
Valby which had been referred to the
ssembly committee on internal affairs.
Conger was compelled to file his bill
I particulars BY vote Of the Senate
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