Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-30

third offense he will be suspended.
lions on that date, according to the
books, amounted to $5S5,97S
More letters ealing upon the Gov
ernor to settle up his account dated
in June, one calling for a deposit of
$4,000, were read into the record by
the witness. These letters referred
to depositing more margin"
The account was reopened again on
June 81. 1910, according to Fuller, when
the firm bought 100 shares of Big Four
at so and 100 shares at 50, on which the
firm loaned Mr.. Sulzer," as the wit
ness expressed it, $4,000. In July,
1910. Big Four had dropped to ~,
wiping out the governors margin.
The firm then called on Mr.. Sui
yer to make deposit Their letter
to Sulzer in July said.
your account has been in bad
shape for the past week and you have
not responded to our requests for
margin. At the closing prices today
your account was short 81 900 of the
required amount, and we beg to re-
quest you to make a deposit of this
amount tomorrow"
Veto Power Testimony Ruled Out.
The charge that William Sulzer
used his veto power corruptly to in
fluence legislation was shot to pieces
before the impeachment court yester-
day in series of rulings by Chief
Justice Cullen. The result was the
shattering of the prosecutions case
under the seventh article of i'm
parchment.
AS an offset to any comfort the
Governor might get out of these rul-
ings, j. S. Sorenson, of the coffee i'm
porting firm of Grossman & Sielcken
testified that he had taken $500 in
cash to Mr.. Sulzer October 8, 1912.
This brings the total of the campaign
funds acknowledged up to more than
$4,000. Herman Sielcken, of this
firm, was quizzed regarding his con-
nection with the coffee valorization
scheme by Samuel Untermyer for the
Pujo committee in Washington while
Mr.. Sulzer' was a Congressman.
AS incidents to the days proceed
ings. it was learned that Frederick
L. Colwell, the Governors alleged
Wall street agent, has been found,
and that John Boyd Gray, the broker
who handled the famous account
500" for Sulzer. cannot be found.
Arthur l.. Fuller, senior partner of
the firm of Fuller & Gray, who had
little knowledge of the firms office
business, was asked about Gray. Mr..
KIesel announced that they had been
searching for Gray for ten days with
out result. Fuller promised to use
his good offices to bring his partner
into court.
Melville B. Fuller, of the firm of
Harris & Fuller, started to tell of
Suffers dealings with him, but was
sent away to bring in the firm 8
books. He will tell the same story
he told before the Frawley commit
tee Effingham E. sutton, of Fuller
& Gray, identified the account $500
as Suffers, and Frederick e. Coe
told of his share in getting the Big
Four stock that Colwell bought, pre-
sumably for the Governor.
Adjournment Interrupted.
The adjournment was Interrupted
to call to the stand Charles NJ. Boz
cannon. of the Garfield National
Bank, who identified the bank account
transcript of Suffers friend. Hugh ].
Reilly.
Reilly is the man who figured in
the Cuban contracts about which Sui
ger wrote many letters while Con-
gresham. He loaned the Governor
SEC, 900 before and after he was nomi-
mated for Governor.
The prosecution delivered a sting
ing blow toward adjournment when
a statement about the Schiff contri-
button of $1,000 made to the news
papers by the Governor was identified
by George Graves, an office attache.
In this statement, under date of July
80, 1913. the Governor said:
II did not know that Mr.. Schiff had
sent a check to a friend for $1,000
until | was threatened about 1t last
May. 1t was not sent to me or made
to my order"
Schiff testified only last Thursday
that Sulzer asked him for contri-
button and told him to make it out
to Louis A Sarecky, spelling out the
latter's name so that there might be
no mistake.
In seeking to establish that the
Governor had used his veto power
corruptly to get votes for his direct
nomination bill the prosecution had
listed as witnesses Assemblymen j.
Lewis Patrie. of Greene; Seth G..
Prime. I'd, of Warren, and Thaddeus
C. Sweet. of Oswego.
Judge Cullen would not admit
Patrie to the stand at all and so
limited the answers of the other two
that their effect was negligible on the
second article of impeachment, which
charged that Sulzer had promised
Patrie a highway for his vote Tor
the direct nomination bill. and had
vetoed a canal bridge bill introduced
by Sweet because he refused to vote
for the BILL and had signed high
way bill for Prime in return for a
vote.
Sweet. in telling his story, said the
Governor had told him ito see Tay-
lor" (the Governors legal advisory
and smooth him the right way.
Prime said the Governor. in talk
ing of the bill. said: you for me
and me for YOU"
Judge Cullen held that no bargain
had been made with Patrie of any
kind. and that in the cases of the
other two any effort to show that
their legislation was needful or not
needful was not for the court, but for
the Legislature to decide.
Before calling the Assemblymen
the prosecution called the Governor
secretary, Chester c. Platt, to iden-
tify certain records and letters.
George Van Nance, clerk of the As
sembly, testified that all the bills in
question had passed.