New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-24
Will Give Commissioner
Chance to Answer Before
They Are Published.
HE MAY DISCLOSE
MORE ACCUSATIONS
Easy to Disprove Allegations
Thus Far Presented in Asphalt
Case, Fuller Says.

Albany. Nov. Capitalization to-day OF
some Of the charges against John n. Car
Isle, state Highways Commissioner, in re-
lation TO state asphalt deals did not cause
| Governor Glynn TO change his decision not
to make the accusations public until after
Carlisle had been given an opportunity to
answer them.
Not all of the allegations have been
made public. the Governor said tonight.
| Nor will they be. he thought until he re-
| leases them.
81 think they are guessing about the
contents of the papers ! have he said.
81 shall he first to give out all OF the
charges
His statement followed general rumors
here to-day that only part OF the
charges had been published Roy Is.
Fuller. secretary to the Highways De
partment. was one OF those who insisted
! that he did not believe the Commissioners
| accurers would rest their case on the ac-
! rusations now known. Fuller said 1t
would he easy for Carlisle to dsprove
ANYTHING that had been brought against
| him up to the present He added that IN
so far as the alleged meeting at Coopers-
town on July last. at which Governor
Sulzcr. George \. Mcclure and Carlisle
I are said 10 have plotted to place a ban
or independent" asphalt, was concerned
that could be disproved by from $50 to
200 witnesses. who saw Carlisle In Water
town. his home, that day.
Carlisle was out Of the city to-day and
could not bc reached. Governor Glynn
probably will send him copy OF the
charges tomorrow. when he Is expected
to return here.
one of the principal charges implicat-
| inr Fuller is that after the alleged Coop
erstown meeting he was ordered to notify
contractors to cease using independent
| asphalt That was said TO be the mean
! ing of the order. although the manner III
which II was issued was different, II IS
| alleged The contractors were notihed III
thirty kilograms. the charges now IN 'he
/ Governors hands say. TO use only sollu'
natural" asphalt This kind is manuiact-
ured only by the Barber Asphalt Com
many. for which Mcclure and his brother
were agents
! According TO information given out in
New York. copies Of these kilograms
were in the hands Of the Frawley com
mittee last summer but no evidence re-
! iating TO them was adduced In the trial
! of former Governor Sulzer.
| "Thirty kilograms OF the nature de-
| scribed never were sent from this Once
on July 3, or on any other day. fuIler
said tonight. "Ony one telegram was
sent that day II was 10 contractor
notifying him that a carload Of material
had been rejected. II was sent merely
in the course OF routine business. frop-
ably more than 100 kilograms OF similar
import have been sent out since Carlsle
took office. This particular one was not
signed by me. but by the assistant sec
Rotary, and did not know 1t had gone
until several days later.
EFT was concerning this message that
was questioned before the FrawleY
committee and then | tesuned that al
though was not aware that the tele-
gram had been sent the assistant secre-
tary had authority To sign my name 10
such communications.
AS far as my having repudiated any
signatures. that allegation is manufact-
ured ont of whole cloth. The one teie-
gram referred to is the only one the
| Fra,yley committee questioned me
| about"
Fuller said that on July several let
ters were sent 20 the various DIVISION
engineers directing them 10 compel CON
tractors TO live up 20 the speclhcatiohs
in carrying out their contracts. Ihese
he had signed, he said.
81 was with Commissioner Carlisle IN
Watertown on July g." Fuller continued
land there are 100 or 200 people who can
testify TO his presence there, II neces-
sary.
"Furthermore there were no ofhcials
nv ennloyes of the department in the
o4co nm the afternoon OF July ., as 1t
was a half holiday"