New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-20
FrawIey Committee to Inquire
if a Gift Was Made, Con-
ditionaI on Racing
Being Resumed.
ANOTHER CHECK, AS WELL
Get Sulzer Out" and Do It
Quickly, Orders Murphy
Bracket Trial Counsel
Action Against
Sarecky.

rr-orr a star Correspondent Of Tho Tribune
Albany. Aug. 19-The Frawley COM
nnittee is hanging on to its legislative
authority and tenure chiefly and al
most solely TO investigate three further
charges against William Sulzer, 20
wit:
IN Did Sulzer accept a check for
$1,000 from a prominent turfman. who
has since died. as contribution tow
ard his direct primary war chest" and
as a slight token Of esteem from the
men who would gain their ends if Sui
yer were - allow what Hughes ana
Dix prohibited-the resumption of rae
ing?
t2) Did Sulzer spend in and for his
direct primary fight all the money
given for that purpose, or did some OF
the contributions follow his election
campaign fund 10 Wall street?
80 Did Sulzer receive and return 4
check for 5000 from another leading
racing man, who has been prominent
in Democratic politics, and was this
check returned because II was in
dorsed across it's face for direct pri-
mary fight?
The Tammany steerers of the Fraw-
ley committee acknowledged to-day
that these three questions were being
investigated by the detectives and coun-
sci Of the committee. Finally it was
admitted. albeit grudgingly, that Lu-
gene Lamb Richards, counsel to the
Frawley committee. was directing his
present efforts toward verifying re-
ports Of the track gifts and to a search
for the cancelled check of the contri-
button said to have been accepted.
Disguised, II Bargain"
No accusation is made from the
Tammany side that the racing inter
ests raised any huge fund or that any
extensive or concerted movement was
instituted by the racing interests. on
the contrary, it was said here to-day
the whole matter was handled so
quietly and shrewdly and the small
amount Of money involved was lis
gused so cleverly as a contribution to
moral issue" that the incident passed
of without creating a ripple Of excite
ment and was never referred to by
anv one concerned as bargain"
With the circulation of the news Of
this latest attack on Sulzer here came
the report, coincident with the arrival
Of the legislators for the session. that
Charles +. Murphy had sent orders
that the present situation must not
be allowed to continue, and that Glynn
must be forced into some decisive ac-
ton looking toward getting Sulzer
out Immediately"
Tammany believes that Sulzer's de-
fiance of impeachment, evinced chiefly
by his persistent possession of the EX-
ecutive Chamber, must be Immediately
checkmated. and while the organiza-
tion does not want TO do anything that
will give Sulzer any chance to pose as
a martyr, the Murphy orders are 10
get Sulzer out and Glynn in-and to do
II quickly.
Under these plans the Frawley COM
mittee is bending every effort toward
laying bare these further prospective
exposures Of Sulzer, and Tammany in
tends, if these charges be substantiated.
70 include them also in the articles Of
impeachment. Those articles. 1t was
pointed out by Tammany man, care
fully provided for just such a con-
ungency in their closing clause, which
set forth that the Assembly reserved to
itself at any time before the trial the
Continued on third page, seventh column.