The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-10-10
YOUNG RYAN ADDS
. TO sULZER CHARGE
SAYS lMPEACHED EXECUTIVE
SOUGHT AID OF LEADER
MURPHY. 81.
WANTED HIS TRIAL KILLED"
ised to Make 1t Right
Sarecky Takes Blame
for Much.


Albany. N. Y. Oct. 9.-Governor Sui
ger recently attempted to negotiate a
bargain with Charles F. Murphy, lead
er of Tammany Hall, to have his i'm
| parchment trial called off"-so AL
Ian A. Ryan, son of the New York
financier and traction magnate, testi-
fed.
II Murphy was willing to get ''his
following to vote that the assembly
had no right to impeach him." the
governor, according to Ryan, was
willing to do whatever was right"
Sarecky Is Called.
The testimony preceded the calling
to the defense of Louis A. Sarecky,
the governors campaign secretary,
and other witnesses.
Sarecky, youth of 81, shouldered
the blame for omission of unreported
contributions from the governors
campaign statement, confessed he had
initiated the governors signature to
deceive bank, and admitted that he,
an alien, born in Russia and never
naturaliZed, had been promoted from
the position of the governors stenog-
rapher to the head of the deportation
bureau of the state hospital commits
sion.
Ryan's story of the governors al
legged effort to make peace with the
leader of Tammany Hall was his Sec
ond recital of an attempt on the part
of the governor to obtain political in
fluence to stop the trial.
Ryan's Previous Testimony.
Ryan testified Monday that Sulzer
had asked him to persuade United
States Senator Elihu Root to get the
New York Republican state chairman,
William Barnes, Jr., to influence the
Republican members of the court Of
impeachment to vote the impeachment
illegal.
The latter testimony was imme-
diately stricken out by vote of the
court-32 to 18-but, on motion OF
Elton r. Brown, the senate's Repub-
lican leader, the court, in executive
session, reconsidered its action and,
by a vote of Al to IA, decided to ad-
nit the testimony and open the door
for the remainder of the young finan-
cier's story.
Ryan asserted that Sulzer had asked
him to obtain the offices of Delaney
Nicoll, attorney for the elder Ryan,
as "go between" in the proposed ne
gotiations with the Tammany leader.
This request the governor made, the
witness said, on the same day that
he asked him to intercede with Sena-
tor Root week before the impeach-
ment trial began and in the governors
New York Office.
Governor Tells of Strength.
The governor said, according to the
witness, that he controlled 10 Demo
cratic votes in the court of impeach-
ment. AS in the case of the governors
request that he see Senator Root,
see Mr.. Nicoll.
Ryan did, however, make an effort
of his own, he said, Ito sound the Re-
publican sentiment"
This he did, he testified, through a
friend"
1t appeared from his testimony that
this friend had seen Chairman Barnes
and obtained statement that the Re
publican organization would do moth
ing"
The governors counsel made no at
tempt to cross-examine the witness,
who gave his testimony with apparent
reluctance. William Travers Jerome,
personal attorney of the witness, sat
at the counsel table while the examina-
ton was being conducted.
Much Craning of Necks.
Sarecky, much heralded as the gov
ernor's star witness, took the stand
amid a craning of necks and a buzz of
interest.
1--WE received either from Tammny
Hall or from the secretary of state,
said Sarecky, "a blank form in which
statement was to be made out of
receipts and expenditures of campaign
funds.
did William Sulzer have anything
whatever to do in the work of pre-
pairing that statement?"
mo, sir" Sarecky declared, en-
phatically.
why did you leave out any mon
eys?"
Because did not have any rec
ord before me at the time made up
the statement to cover the items 7
omitted. l used part of the money
that I deposited to my own account
in settling suit out West that had
been brought against Mr.. Sulzer dur.
IL fhr oicyr,