New-York tribune., 1910-11-30
BELMONT SHOWS ANGER
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so, but it was only by mutual agreement
between the associations, and did not
enter into the functions Of the Jockey
| Club.
Mr.. Belmont Aroused.
| By a passing reference to one phrase
used by Mr.. Belmont Judge Bruce then
brought out the longest voluntary state
ment yet offered to the investigating
committee, excepting only the general
statement of Robert II. Elder when he
! told Gardners story.
"You refer to the prosecutions. as In
| this instance" said Mr.. Bruce ITO what
do you refer by that?"
To which Mr.. Belmont replied, in part:
I refer to this very-I can say this-hear-
| ing because to my mind il takes on almost
| the appearance of the ridiculous am
| called here to testify about something .hat
| it ought to be presumed would know
nothing about, nor do j. And | wanted 10
ask IL l would be permitted IN TINS COP con
puna was issued. when he signed it, If it Is
not an illegitimate thing TO ask
The Chairman do not know.
The Witness-Because | was served had
no notification whatever and l would be
always perfectly willing to appear here,
and an attempt was made TO serve me IN fl,.a d
ThankseIving a process server came my
office and represented himself as wanting TO
see me or legal business. L was served,
and l didn't know who he was.
The chances were that ordinary days ]
wouldn't have been at my Office at all:
and to the West Some other reason pre-
vented me. But | ran a great risk OF not
being served. and | felt very nue., muGn ag-
name might be used. as you have taken oc-
casion to speak of some of our associates
as trying to evade service.
Now that IS a reflection. and sort or
1t comes under the head of what ! call a
persecution, because 1t conveys 10 the com
munity trying to evade a question which
don't think any OF these gentlemen have
any objection to answering. For instance,
in MI WhtneymS IS case h condf,on h9w It 1 vas iH he
transferred his stable to Europe- He mas
got his large interests there He is there
at the present time.
Polo Match of Great Concern.
Perhaps you may not think so, but the
international polo match is a mater ~
great concern with MN II is i Interested in
He is there because the challenge mas al
ready been sent. and don't think tiat ne
could be expected to take steamer . any
come out here and testify to you apout
some mythical dinner that took place ana
so on That has been mentioned IN the
And some mythical sum, because | must
say the very amount OF it-ha!f a miilo4
dnllQrS-nakeS
think he ought 10 be held Up by counsel as
irving 10 evade service.
Then Mr. Belmont said he could tell
the committee about one meeting An
,,nstate Senator not Of his party, was
brought by friend to call on him IN MS
office. he said, and they talked about the
racing bills. After Mr.. Belmont had eX-
plained the conduct of racing to him, the
Senator said he wasn't in favor OF the
Aenew-Hart bills, but he added that
bribery talk was rife in Albany, and ne
wanted to know if Mr. Belmont knew
ANYTHING about that.
Mr.. Belmont. he testified, told the Sem
ator he couldn't answer for all racing
men. but he knew that the Westminster
Racing Association and the Jockey Club
| had done nothing in the way OF bribery
| Mr. Belmont said there seemed to be in
| terest in the opposition of the racing
| interests to the bills. "Of course, there
was opposition' he said. But. he added,
the opposition was in the open at public
hearings. He thought. he said. that
| friends of the bills fostered the idea Of
bribery.
Judge Bruce assured Mr.. Belmont that,
far from having any idea of persecution,
the committee thought that it was af-
| fording racing men and others a good
opportunity to put themselves on record
| in fat denial of any rumors that they
! believe to be or knew to be unfounded.
/ AS to Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Keene,
| however, the counsel was loath to accept
] Ln fni1
| the banker that from what the commit
tee had learned it seemed that they had
sailed for Europe after having learned
| of the desire of the committee to sum-
mon them as witnesses.
| In answer to further questions Mr.. Bel
mont said that there had been a meet
| ing at the Jockey Club Of the board of
stewards, and informally the situation
raised by the prospective passing of the
| Agnew-Hart bills was discussed. He
| thought that Schuyler Parsons, Andrew
| Miller, William Engemann and Charles
| II. Hyde were there, but he was not
sure, and they decided then to take steps
| to present the views of the racing asso-
Citations to the Legislature. That re-
suited in the appearance before the
| Legislature later of Judge Coyne, Mr.
| Belmont said. and he added that the
| fund raised included his compensation.
"Mets" Not Contributors.
| The suggestion that the Metropolitan
| Turf Association had contributed to this
fund Mr.. Belmont repudiated indignant
| ~.
They have nothing TO do with the
| Jockey Club" he said, and in answer TO
| another question he said that the only in
| dividual contributions which were made
| in 1903 or since We're contributions made
by horsemen and others TO defray the ex-
penses Of the meetings held subsequent
to the passage of the Agnew-Hart law
which were at loss to the racing
associations
Mr. Belmont said he believed the rae
ing associations filed statements of their
expenses incurred in the opposition TO
the Agnew Hart bills. as REQUIRED hv
| law, and that the records at the CapitoI
would show the full account.
Francis Z. Gates, the Senator from,
Madison County from 1903 to 1903. who
was named by Senator Travis at a pre-
vious session as one of the Senators who
told him they had been approached by