New-York tribune., 1910-02-27

mas been clean. and any yielding to a
hysterical demand" for investigation
now would be puerile
To all this the direct primary advo-
Gates. Who are distinctly jubilant at this
Tune. have ready answer They say
an investigation is necessary to show to
the voters that the Legislature to-day
feeis 1t has nothing TO fear. whatever
might be revealed
stu another clement contributes to the
demand for general investigation. and
that is party loyalty. Speaker Nads-
worth's :aunt OF political expediency''
the other night rankies in the breasts o.
many Republicans. who. while they do
not care ut this time 30 reply directly
70 MIN, are not forgetting the incident.
NOT To CALL Mr.. ODELL.
Reports were abroad here to-day that
the Aids lawyers would call Ex-Governor
Benjamin B. Odell, ir., to the stand next
week when the bribery inquiry is re-
sumed- This was denied specifically by
Danforth 4. Ainsworth, of the Aids legal
staff
We do not intend to cali Ex-Governor
Odell, and never have intended tc do so"
said he
1t Is very unlikely that the Aids law
yers viii call Senator Platt or Colonel
George W Dunn.
They expect. however to gain all the
advantage of the former Republican
stete leaders testimony by introducing
IN evidence letters and kilograms written
By him TO Aids, This they can do with
CIT subjecting Platt to the inconven-
'ence of personal testimony. by having
Aids Identify them when he takes the
stand This evidence constitutes an i'm
portant factor in the defence. for Aids
holds that his advocacy of legislation
taForahle to the bridge companies in
1901 was due to Platt's orders
In the same way the defence expects
TO turn to the accused Senator's ad-
vantage the message attacking the
bridge combine which President Roose-
welt sent to Congress after the Matthews
commission had declared certain OF
these companies guilty Of conspiracy to
defraud the city of Boston Martin w
Littleton read a portion of this message
during his opening add SIS. One of the
Aids legal staff said to-day that this
document, with the Matthews report
connected. would be offered in evidence
TO prove AlIds's contention that the
bridge companies were aggressors in leg
islative corruption and not the helpless
victims of the Black Horse Cavalry
as Conger has intimated
4 report that William Loeb. jr, now
Collector of the Port Of New York would
be asked 10 take the stand to identify
this message, written while he was ex-
President Rooseve1t's secretary, was de-
MED to-day. If Congers attorneys OBJ
iect to this evidence it proba bly, will not
be on the ground of lack Of proper
identification. but because they contend
that II has no bearing on the specific
charges against Aids.
PROBABLE WITNESSES THIS WEEK
Although Senator Davis believes that
all the testimony will be finished next
week, that is not the impression of Sen
ator AlIds's counsel Mr. Stevens who
introduced the highway legislation in
1901; Mr. Gilbert, who drew il for sew
Bridge Company; into whose hands the
alleged bridge Doodle fund raised in 1905
was said to have been placed. TO be re-
turned by him later: Eugene L-andon. of
the Groton Bridge Company. who is said
TO have had the handling Of part OF a
similar fund another year before Senator
Conger said he gave it to State Chair
man Dunn and other witnesses of like
nature will be called during the week.
Senator -sllds's lawyers believe that
the taking of this testimony will oc-
Cupy the entire week, and that Aids,
who viii be their last witness, VIII not
b. called 10 the stand until week after
next II IS the purpose of the Aids side
to show in every detail that the bridge
companies were professional corruption
lists not only in this state, but in others.
and that where they found it impossible
TO bring man to do their bidding they
die their utmost to drive him out of any
place in public life where he could inter-
fere with them