New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-23
BR|BE' PROBE IS VOTED
Assembly Judiciary Committee
to Begin Here Monday.
GARRISON STORY FIRST
Suffers Press Agent Must Tell
of Statements About Bought"
Impeachment.

When the Judiciary Committee OF III.
Assembly met I'm the City Hall yester-
day il developed that its members have
not yet determined whether the commit
tee will investigate the charges that Ger.
! tain Assemblymen were bribed to vote
for Governor Suffers impeachment. the
purpose for which its chairman, Mark
Goldberg, called the committeeman to-
gether Ten members Of the fourteen on
the committee and an expectant audi.
ence were present when the meeting
was called to order.
Chairman Goldberg said the committee
would have TO go into executive session
TO decide whether II should proceed with
an investigation. He said no subpnnas
had been prepared or served. After an
hour and half of secret debate al
which it was said some opposition de-
veloped to the inquiry, the committee
reconvened and Chairman Goldberg an.
nounced that II had been the unanimous
vote OF the committeeman present TO in.
vestigate the bribery charges. The OPEN
ing hearing will be held Monday in the
Board OF Estimate at II a. m.
Subpenas were issued for James q
Garrison, one OF Governor Suffers press
agents. and ex-Judge Lynn J. Arnold.
president and editor of The Knicker-
booker Press" OF Albany. a Sulzer SUD.
porter. The subpoena was served on
Judge Arnold, who was present. lie re-
quested an immediate hearing, but this
was denied. Chairman Goldberg ex-
planned that without the letters and docu-
ments called for in the subpoena duces
tecum the testimony of Judge Arnold
would be valueless TO the committee a,
this time
II was in the city on other business
Judge Arnold said afterward. and read
in the morning papers that a subpoena
had been issued for me by this commit
tee, so I came here with the intention OF
testifying IL they wanted me. I told the
chairman that | was ready and willing
10 testify and 10 assist the committee in
every way ! could in its strenuous ef-
forts. / don't think the committee wants
10 hear me any more than il does TO sit
on a prickly pear"
The subpPnas. which were both duces
tecum. called for the production OF "a
certain letter or copy thereof, purporting
10 have been written by one Boothby 10
one James G. Garrison, touching on
charges alleged TO have been made
against certain members of the Assem-
bly," Judge Arnold said ne didn't have
a copy OF the letter. G. L. Boothby. the
man referred 10, Is legislative superinten-
dent OF the New York civic League lie
was present when the vote was taken on
the impeachment question and was said
AZ the time 10 have alleged that certain
Assemhlymen were bribed 70 vote for
impeachment.
In long statement given out in Al
bany yesterday James &. Garrison said
he would ignore the subpoena Of the
committee, unless advised differently By
counsel" lie launched into a sarcastic
attack upon the Judiciary Committee and
its motives in starting the present IN
vestigaticn. The statement was incor.
porated IN letter TO Assemblyman
Aaron J. Levy. When Mr.. Levy was
shown the statement, AT the meeting OF
the committee. he said:
II wouldn't enter into a controversy
with a man Of that type. from the Gov
ernQr down. We are not after Garrison.
but after what he said. He will have 10
appear before the committee or 90 10
Jail"