The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-22
SAYS HE WAS PARTNER OF THE SON OF CHAS. F. MURPHY.
 TAMMANY BOSS.
IN CONTRIBUTION GRAFT
Acknowledges That He Attempted to Hold Up" Asphalt Companies for a Commission on Their Sales of Material to the State.

New York, Nov 2l.-George II. Mcclure, the Syracuse bonding agent for state highway and barge canal contractors, is a partner of Charles F Murphy, Jr. nephew of the leader of Tammany Hall.
 He so testified today at the John Doe inquiry into highway graft and said he had an agreement with Mur. hy to divide all the bonding busi. ness they obtained
 Further. Mcclure confessed to hay. ing attempted to hold up at least three asphalt companies for SJ,00C contributions 10 the state democratic committee in return for getting them contracts from the state highway de. Iartment Mcclure was to get q commission of l cent a gallon for all the asphalt the companies sold to the state or to contractors he said and the companies were to charge the contributions againsl the commission
 Two companies. the Warren Quin han Company and the Union Oil Com pany of California did not contribute, he said Whether the third. the Ba Der Asphalt Company. contributed Mcclure said he did not know, but that the Barber Company got the con tract He said he had received a to tal of Sl.250 from Arthur s. John son, sales agent of the Barber Conr pany. but insisted these were mol c6mmissions but money given him as campaign contributions to Governor Sulzer
 McGuige said 1t was possible he also had sought contributions from the United Asphalt Company under the same terms That company paio him S69l in commissions on materials which the company had sold to th, repair department of the state high way commission. and still owed him money. he said So did the Wads worth Stone and Paving Company and the Barber Company. Last year he received commissions also on sales made 10 the state by tine Alsten Ce- lnent Company the Dryden Cement Company the Kentucky Rock As phalt Company and the knickerbock CT Cement Company, he testified These admissions were drawn out of the witness only after insistent req etilion of questions by the prosecutor
 Before he took the stand McGuirle went before the grand jury and among other things was questioned it was said, as to the part James Mc- gure played in the sharing Of com missions. James K, the witness eA- plained, sailed for South America several days ago, but he Thought he would be able to have him return.
 Mcclure again denied that in com pany with his brother, James k, he had seen Governor Sulzer ana John N. Carlisle, commissioner or highways, at Coopertown, N. H, July last, and discussed specifications under which the Barber Asphalt Com pany would obtain state contracts to the exclusion of all other companies
 
 he might have talked with Sulzer at later date, but not at Coopers- town
 Mcclure admitted having suggest ed to a representative of the Barber Company that 1t make 5000 cam paign contribution to the democra'lc state committee in return for gettlhe state contract He said he hau held similar conversations with flH- more Condit, New York agent of the Union oil Company
 Did you know it was crime to solicit these contributions asked MT Whitman
 'I never knew it was crime to so' lict these commissions rePlleu Mcclure. He denied that the Barpe- Company had made seven payments ot commissions to him during tho last year, although MT Whitman ih' formed him that the company's sales agent, Johnson. had so asserteu'
 In regard to his association wlth Charles r. Murphy. Jr., in the oohu, Ing business, Mcclure said ne h"u an agreement with the Tammahy leaders, nephew which embraceu !" division of expenses and commissions on fhe bonding of all barge calai' state highway, subway and aqueuuO' contracts. They both represented lne United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company. he said, and last year thes had together obtained about 70 per