New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-18

1 pay AeHt VI the $<,ooV ne Hdu COntIiDutcu
to the Sulzer campaign fund. Mr.. Schif,
reiterated his testimony that the money,
was not exclusively for campaign pur.
poses.
Two witnesses brought in the name of
Mrs. Sulzer in connection with receipts
for campaign contributions.
Widens the Inquiry.
The court by unanimous vote decided
| to permit the inquiry TO extend to all OF
| the Sulzer funds. the defence failing to
| have II confined to those enumerated in
the articles of impeachment. This ruling,
opened the way for evidence intended to,
show that Sulzer had solicited and re- Z,
ceived large sums from the brewing In.
| terests Cash was asked for. IL was testi-,
| fed
| Charles A. stadler, president Of the
American Mailing Company. swore that
Sulzer had asked him to use his influence
In obtaining the support OF Tammany
| Hall
Duncan w. Peck, State Superintendent,
Of Public Works, testified on September
8 that Sulzer had told him on July 10 to
| DO as / shall-deny II" when called TO
give evidence about his $500 contribution
! to Suffers campaign. which was not men,
toned in the candidates sworn statement.
| When the Governor was reminded by Peck
that he would be under oath, according 70
the witness Sulzer replied: That's moth
| ing. Forget It,"
Henry Morgenthau testified that sulzer
within a week or two before the trial
had said: BE easy with me-" Morgen-
than was also asked. he said. TO treat
his $1,000 gift as personal between US.
/, It was disclosed that cotton brokers and
members Of the Cotton Exchange had
made up pool for candidates, a part OF
which went to Sulzer. Richard Croker.
jr.. told of having handed $4,000 check
to .Sulzcr drawn to Cash" This check
was shown to have been cashed by Fred
erick L. Colwell, the Governors alleged
agent in Wall Street transactions, thus
for the first time connecting Colwell with
Sulzer In that capacity.
Testimony was introduced on September
80 that showed that an account carried
by Harris & Fuller. a brokerage concern.
was for Mrs. Sulzer. The articles Of Inn
parchment charged that Sulzer had made
|
lions In these transactions
The court went into ell Of tho alleged
transactions of Sulzer with various firms.
It was shown that Sulzer had an account
with Harris & Fuller and that his margins
were concealed as 'loan" on the books
of the firm. In another account Sulzer
was known simply as "63" and in anothev
place as 800"
Prosecution Rests.
The prosecution rested its case on Octo.
Der 1. Sulzer was then eager TO take tho
stand and bare what he declared was a
Tammany plot He wished to tell how he
had been bounded by Charles F. Murphy
and the latter's adherents, but his lawyers
would not let him do so. Pressure also
was brought TO bear on Sulzer by his
friends at Washington. who feared that
the Democratic party might be injured IL
he should tell all that he knew so near
to election time. II was also said that
the Court Of Impeachment would not per-
NIT Sulzer to tell anything about Tam
many.
The defence opened its case on October
G. In outlining the defence Harvey D..
Human, for Sulzer. said that no offence
in the law had been committed by Sulzer.
, and that II was not within the turisdic-
ton Of the court TO consider whether his
, conduct had been moral" or not. Many
: of the checks received IN the campaign
were from intimate friends OF Sulzer, II
was said, and were regarded by him as
personal Some of these went to his wife
Q and some TO Louis A. Sarecky, his Sec
Z rotary He depended on the latter 10
| keep a record Of these funds, but found
0 his secretary, in the end, had to depend
upon his memory.
The prosecution having reopened tts
case, Allan A. Ryan. son OF Thomas f.
Ryan testified that Sulzer had asked him
to go to Washington and appeal TO SEN
ator Root 10 use his influence with VIII
lam Barnes TO have the Republican Sem
ators vote the impeachment trial illegal
This testimony was stricken out on ap-
peal from President Cullen's ruling Mr..
Ryan also swore to a $4,000 contribution
to Sulzer for which Sulzer made no &C
counting.
Edward P. Meany. attorney for the New
York Telephone Company, swore that he
loaned Sulzer $1,000 one week after his
nomination, and took no note nor made
any record Of the transaction. A letter
he produced, but which was not allowed
in evidence. was said 10 be from Presi-
dent Wilson 20 Sulzer In response to one
from Sulzer recommending Meany for an
ambassadorship.
Allan A. Ryan was recalled and swore
that recently Sulzer had attempted 10
bargain with Charles F. Murphy TO have
the impeachment called of. II Murphy
was willing TO get his following to vote
that the Assembly had no right 10 I'M
peach him, Suffer- according to Ryan.
was willing to do whatever was right
Sarecky Shoulders Blame.
Louis A. Sarecky shouldered the blanc
for the unreported contributions and con-
fessed that he had initiated the Gov
ernor's sieature TO mislead a bank. He
admitted that he was an alien, born In
Russia, and that he had never been
naturalized, yet he had risen TO be head
Of the deportation bureau OF the state
Hospital Commission. Sarecky said later
that he had become citizen on MS
fathers naturalization papers.
One of sareckys most remarkable state
ments was that after he had received
checks he threw the memoranda OF them
into the waste basket He shouldered
the responsibility for the campaign state
ment OF Sulzer. Sarecky said that the
Icamnaipn committee of which he was sec
led