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not put in then, though Mr.. Osborne ma,
decide to do so later
Use of Name Unauthorized.


decide to do so later.
Use of Name Unauthorized.
The pooling arrangement of the Aids
company was brought out by Mr. Osborne
as a snapper at the end of the DAYS
session. Senator Aids had told about his
having organized the Acme Road Machin-
cry Company and serving for about eigh-
teen months as its general counsel Mr.
Osborne asked him If he didn't know that
advertising matter and letter heads of that
company bore his name long after that
time. Aids said he did-that for three or
four years he had tried without effect to
get the company to remove his name from,
its stationery. He wrote forty letters he
said, before any action was taken He had
copies OF only one-the last. The use Of
his name, said Senator Aids. was unau-
thorized-absolutely
Well, Senator, they certainly have treat
ed you very badly" remarked Mr. Osborne
because here's your name on a bill sent
out in August, 1908, and on a letter of
March, 1893" Then he shot at Aids a
question which almost raised the defendant
from his chair
Did you know that this company di-
vided pools just like the bridge companies?
I did not" answered Aids, apparently
much astonished.
Mr.. Osborne gave him a letter signed in
the name Of Walter Cook. friend Of
twenty years, and the man who, Aids tes-
titled. first told him of the attempt TO
raise a bridge Doodle fund in 1901 This
Information Cook gained from a letter writ
ten TO this Acme company. Aids said that
while he had received twenty or thirty
letters from Cook in the last ten years he
wouldn't swear TO that signature. He was
perfectly certain. however, that the letter
was from the Acme Company This letter
was written in November. 1906, and de
/ handed a share of poor resulting from
coliusive bidding on contracts. Mr.. Osborne
asked Aids If he ever knew of this, and
the Senator said this was the first time in
lis life he'd heard OF it.
Says Matter Was Not Relevant
When the letter was offered in evidence
Nj Littleton protested against its adrlis-
sion on the ground that the event hap
pened in 1896. he conceded that the letter
was precisely what Nj Osborne repre-
scented it to be, but said Aids had testlfed
he knew nothing Of the illegal pools. and
therefore the matter was not relevant.
The transaction is or all fours with the
Cleveland agreement, in which the Conger
companies were Interested" retorted Nj
Osborne. IT it was relevant for you to
put all that in evidence tll1s is relevant.
This IS my Cleveland agreement for tire
Aids company I think everybody will feel
better # this is admitted and both sides
are treated alike and Mr.. Osborne adj
dressed himself directly to Senator Davis.
Senator Grady backed up the Aids lawyer
in his contention that the cases were not
similar. and this evidence was not adnlis-
sible- Senator Davis would not rule on the
question until next week
Early in the day Senator Aids denied
that he had told Nj. Willard. editor of THE
Evening Post" of New York, that pub
LEGATION of the bribery charges would harm
or defeat legislation in which that paper
was interested He denied also that he
had said there was a lobby IN Albany UP TO
the time of Governor Higgins. He said
that he told Mr. Willard there was no sus-
picion that one had existed after Higgins's
time. even if anybody had suspected that
one existed before that.
Don't you know there was a lobby from
1860 TO the time of Governor Higgins
Numbered Mr.. Osborne.
NO. sir. I do not" replied Aids. He
said that his orders to the witness Daniels
10 stay with HIM all day on April IS, 1901,
were not given with the notion that any
body was coming around" and he had no
recollection Of the contemplated corrup-
ton fund when he gave those orders.
Osborne tested Allds's memory OF affairs
nine years ago. and asked If he recoIIected
how Harvey Daniels, Alldss committee
clerk. sat on the steps OF the Speakers
platform in the Assembly chamber during
the prayer on the closing day of the ses-
sior Of 1901. april %.
Il do said Aids.
The taking of testimony il the inquiry
viii not be finished before the end of next
week. Subject 10 the judgment Of the COM
mittee he opposing lawyers have agreed
TO sum up the case, the Aids side on Tues
day week and the Conger lawyers the fol-
lowing day. The Senate then win have the
case. and may give its judgment so that
finish viii be made by the end Of week af-
ter next