Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-12
NAMES ON
CAVANAUGH's LIST.
AssembIymen McCabe and
FISHER Mentioned" but
Not Approached.

In the alleged attempt of Joseph
e. Cavanaugh, deputy revenue col
lector of this city to get three Essex
Aesemblymen to change their votes
on the jury bill or to absent them
selves from the session Friday on the
promise of a job it was learned to-
day that two other assemblymen We're
mentioned. The two assemblymen,
who. it is said, Cavanaugh contem-
plated seeing are Assemblyman Law
renee McCabe, jr., of East Orange,
and Assemblyman Bennett Fl. Fish
Ter, of Montclair.
II was learned on good authority to-
dav that Cavanaugh was in down
town cafe Thursday afternoon with
two other men, and was heard to
mention the names of four Essex as
semblymen in his Jury" converse
tion The four mentioned are said to
have been Fisch, Mcguire, MeCane
and FISHER. The name OF Assembly
man Louis Lewis whom Cavanaugh
afterward saw and asked to change
his vote on the jury question, was not
mentioned by Cavanaugh at that time
In his conversation with his two
friends.
Whv Cavanaugh changed his mind
concerning McCabe and FISHER and
later saw Assemblyman Lewis could
not be learned.
It is also known that shortly before
Cavanaugh entered the place Assem-
blyman John A. Matthews, the lone
Essex assemblyman who will vote
for the chancel' sheriff bill desired
by PRESIDENT Woodrow Wilson, and
which Cavanaugh, it is said, tried to
have Messrs. Fisch Lewis and Ma
guire support, left,
In his proposals to two of the three
legislators whom he saw. Cavanaugh
mentioned Mayor H. Otto Wittpenn,
of Jersey City. as the man behind the
gun. it is reported. Matthews is at
the present time Wittpenn's spolSes-
man In the House of Assembly, and
was in conference with the latter the
same afternoon at local restaurant
| it is declared.
Lewis Says He Has a Witness.
Assemblyman Lewis told a reporter
for the Evening Star that he had a
witness. whose name he did not wish
to disclose at the present time, who
could substantiate his statement that
Cavanaugh called at his office Thurs
day afternoon and offered him job,
| If he would switch his vote on the
jury bill or stay away from Fridays
session.
"I have known Cavanaugh for some
time" said Mr.. Lewis, land have IN
derstood that he was acting for
Mayor Wittpenn in this county. Cav
anaugh told me that if / would stay
away from Fridays session, or if
would vote for the chancellor-sheriff
bill nothing would be too good for
me. and that I could go to Mayor
Wittpenn at any time and he would
give me what / wanted. He claimed
to be acting for Mayor Wittpenn."
Mr.. Lewis's statement followed the
declaration of Cavanaugh that If As
semblymen Fisch and Lewis said he
had made any proposition to them
thew "were liars and four
flushers.'
.Fisch Ready to Make Affidavit.
Mr.. Fisch is willing to make an
affidavit to the effect that Cava-
naugh waited a half hour for him at
his office Thursday afternoon, prom-
Using that if Fisch would change his
vote or stay away from the Legisla-
ture the next day; II will be in a
position to do something for you as
we'll as for myself.
The position Cavanaugh is said to
have been promised is that of collec-
tor of the port of this city, a POSI-
ton which Is soon to be awarded
o.d Sor xx,lich there are several can
didates.
Mr.. Cavanaugh at first denied that
he had seen any of the assembly
men mentioned, but afterwards adj
mitted when confronted with their
statements that he had visited. all
three at their places of business. He
had merely gone to see them to ask
them to stand firm in their platform
pledges on the jury bill and not to
offer them anything in the way of a
bribe, he declared. Cavanaugh re-
fused to say why he had singled out
any of the three, except Mr.. F'isch,
whom he had known from boyhood,
he said, and whom he did not wish
''to see die so young, politically"
Fisch is the youngest assemblyman
in the house, being only "a years of
age.
The latter denies, however, that
Cavanaugh knew him from boyhood,
and declared that when he arrived at
his office, Thursday afternoon, and
saw Cavanaugh, the latter had to in
troduce himself before he recognized
him.