New-York tribune., 1913-10-24

| the 5000 that Ste"ar' p"'N ''
| not accounted for
.J want to ask Mr.. Murphy no" nue"
the Pittsburgh Eastern Company OF iioS'
Maid want to ask Mr. Murphy ho"
! much came from the Thomas Crimliiiii'
/ construction Company. Of New 1orh'
And how much came from the Fort
Orange Construction Company OF Albany
and Row much came from the Acme En-
eineering and Contracting Company. Oh
| Herkimer,' or from the Great Lakes Coh-
struction Company, Of Bunalo, ana from
Pierson & Son, OF Long Island CITY ana
New York. I want TO ask him spe-
clfcally the amount OF money paiu ny
the American Pipe and Construction com
pany, OF Philadelphia. .....
THAT is not half OF the names that
have Of those who aid and nave the
names and amounts OF some more bu.
want to ask Mr.. Murphy why none OF
those contributions were recorded. ana
| want to ask ,Ir Murphy and Mr.. Nor
man +. Mack and Mclean, OF Newburgh'
why they went to the Barge canal con-
tractors and blackmailed them into CIV
/ ing I'D their money. Is that the reason
1 why the lumber owned BY the State OF
| New York IL used by the contractors
without payment? Is that the reason
that Kerbaugh, who gave $1,000 and
5000. which IL not recorded. was pei
mitted 10 use the gravel of the state with
which to make his concrete. | want
| Murphy now that he has impeached
Governor Sulzer for not reporting cam
| paign funds, to tell us where this money
went.
And l want TO ask Murphy one more
/ thing about his friend Mclean, of New
burgh. They have fake list in the Sec
retary of states Office about contributors
| TO the campaign, and they have McAVoy'
OF New York, down there for contribut-
ing 5000 You can bet he did not con-
tribute 1900 cents. But his name Is put
down there to hide the name OF some man
, that they don't dare make pubic, some
man they blackmaied out Of money VINO
was on public works
And McAvoy's is not the only name
down there that is bogus one and sworn
20 by Mclean, Of NewburGh. And II l
do any Injustice to McAvoy, who IS very
good citizen, he has a chance to come
right back at me and show where he drew
the s. 600 from and tell whom he paid it to-
I don't believe he will. | do not believe
I do him any injustice when ] say that
his name mentioned in that list OF sub
sci!t ers is what is known I'm Tammany
Hall as honorary mention
He turned then to the sordid graft OF
t-N.
records Of his own Investigations made
months ago in Albany The excerpts ais
closed tho most pitiful mdlctng OF poor
laborers that could be imagined. 1heN
showed the petty political boss's grasplns
lieutenants going up and down the ranks
Of the day laborers on the canal, taking
out from the pittance those lahorers re-
cetyed a political assessment, small In
each instance. but in the aggregate run
ming up into thousands Of dollars.
And some Of these unfortunate fellows
that | subpnnaed." said Hennessy, they
brought me their envelopes. Here Is one.
Decker. his envelope marked N%5 20; but
all he got was t22 every two weeks with
a wife and four children. and this fine
Tammany Hall Department OF Pubic
Works taking these envelopes from these
poor men and taking their money out OF
them every two weeks during the entire
season on the canal! From group Oh
twenty-one men, one collector gathered
up S3fs so every two weeks. ana, remen-
Der. there are three thousand such EN-
ployes on the canal"
With the threat ito TammanY and the
promise Oo his eager auditorsl that lie
still has a long story OF that and other
Tammany graft 10 tell during this cam
paign, Hennessy concluded his address
last night with the story Of his inyestiga-
tions Of the old Highway Commission.
composed Of John \. Bensel, {. Gordon
Reel and Duncan w. Peck.
Duncan W. Peck. superintendent OF
Public Works John A. Bensel, state En-
gineer and Surveyor. who left job down
here that paid him more money TO go up
the state TO take job that paid him less,
and g. Gordon Reel. making three, were
the Highways Commission until April OF
this wear and on october 26 OF last year
those three men approved 3l2 contracts
I'm one afternoon and lbs supplemental
contracts relating to those 3i2." said Hen
messy. "and II is a matter Of fact that
when they did that that afternoon some
Of those contracts had already been hn-
ished and the money actually paid out OF
the treasury of the state. What do you
think OF that?
Il showed this to the Governor OF New
York and he determined to call an eX-
traordinary grand jury in July OF this
wear. and ! said to him: You have got
to get fighting bulldog lawyer for this.
This will mean the end Of graft In New
York II you convict Bensel and you con-
vict Peck and you convict Reel
'He said. Who do you suggest" And
I said, I suggest 10 you Henry A. Wise,
former United States Attorney for the
Southern District Of New York
And he accepted my suggestion and we
sent for Mr. Wise, and we showed him
some OF this evidence which we had and
we told him that we had no money We
told him when we began the investigation
Murphy's Legislature cut off all the per
sonal supplies OF the Governor OF New
York; that they cut of his contingent
fund, which never had happened to any
Governor I'm the existence OF the state,
and that they had made no appropriation
of any kind for any investigation.
"Mr. Wise said to me, Well, | will work
for nothing. But he said. this is a big
job and | will need two or three young