New-York tribune., 1910-02-16

| csuse he .hourht he had accomplished
| mis- purpose Senator Wainwright 'hei
! upon renewed it.
II refuse to answer the question az
| present" Senator Conger answered
/ IDENTIFY he felt that he was gettihs
| hot water His reply stirred up ~
nets nest. Senator Newcomb
/; the committee Immediately to H'ah1
! report to the Senate and dennite pi0
cedure adopted to fit the case 'e"'
| Brackett requested the chairman ~
! struct the witness to answer 80 '"
he were contumacious he might e'i'''o
that fact by continued refusal TO dh
swer Senator Hinman feared 'hd' '''0
injection Of This matter into the situa-
tion would interfere with the proper o'i
| sideration of the Aids case.
"These matters will be investigated at
! another time. and sifted to the bottom
let who will be hurt" said he me
| people of the state are entitled 10 TINS
| investigation and they will have IT, put
! IL we take up this matter we VIII 'o
here until the robins nest in the spring
or later
r.
Jronger's counsel, finally instructed hihi
to answer the question as directed oS
Senator Davis and he replied: 1T was
a corporation. 1t was the Groton Brioee
Company"
Then Senator Newcomb asked: was
there fund accumulated and expended
in 1902 TO influence the course OF Ieglsis
tior in the Legislature of this state!
There was q contribution to the state
chairman of the Republican organiza-
ton" replied Senator Conger. That
answer was a little more than Senator
Newcomb had bargained for and he went
back and asked the question over again,
demanding an answer of yes or no.
KNEW NOTHING OF SOURCE.
Senator Conger said that there was a
fund. though he did not know how il was
! disbursed Neither did he know how 1t was
accumulated or in whose hands. He did
| not know whether there was a fund ac-
| cumulated or money available TO the
! bridge compa nies for Doodle purposes in
/ 1904
After Senator Nevcomb had wrung
| the further use of a legislative corrup-
ton fund he moved that the authority
of the Senate in committee of the whole
be extended to embrace this new testi-
mony and all matter relating TO cor
rupt practices to influence the course of
highway legislation between 1901 and
1905" as a separate specification at the
close of the investigation of the charges
against Aids He asked leave to have
action on his proposition postponed un-
| I'll all the Aids testimony had been re
! ceived. Owing. however to an unexpect-
! cd effort by Senator Grady to secure
consideration for the Newcomb resolr-
ton tomorrow a debate followed and
! the Senate adjourned with the question
/ of its disposition still unsettled.
Senator Grady referred sarcasticaliy
/ 10 Newcomb's supposed connection with
! a New York newspaper in which the
/ Conger charges were first published.
/ We recognize each man from the heaV-
/ enly choir when he gets down among
US" said Grady SO that l won't be
accused of sitting on the lid he went
on. o-morrow morning | will take the
Senator's suggestion and present II to
the Senate
Raw B. Smith. clerk of tle Assembly,
discussed freely what he had done re-
garding the entries in the handbook put
in evidence.
Il was up in Syracuse" he said when
I received a telephone message from one
OF the clerks here that somebody had
.Ci-a hi how
whether two S2,e10 drafts were put
through a Syracuse bank in the manner
described and on what date and at what
time they went through the bank.
He said he didn't know who the man
was who wanted this information, be-
cause he gave no name / assumed that
il was some one Of Joe's counsel, and l
got busy. l called UP the National Bank
of Syracuse first. and couldn't get on the
! track of it. Then as l knew Drake had
worked at the First National / called up
there, but was told that no such transac-
ton had ever occurred through that
bank. Then ! called up the cashier of
the National Bank of Syracuse again,
ard was told that they had found that
the drafts were put through that IN
stitution. ] learned the particulars and
telephoned them down to Albany, where
my clerk gave them to the man who
wanted them. / don't see any reason
why | shouldn't have done 1t. l as
s,lmed that one of Joe's lawyers knew /
VAS in Syracuse and took that method
IF getting this information which he de-
sired
Colonel George w Dunn is at the
Rockwell House. Glens Falls. tonight.
When an effort was made TO communi-
cate with him over the telephone it was
said that he had retired. A summary
of Senator Conger's testimony was
written out with a request for a reply
from the former state chairman. inns
was sent to his room. He took II ana
sent word that he had nothing to say.