New-York tribune., 1913-11-27
Osborne Won't Balk Whitman.

per. delay or interfere with Whltihah
investigation in any way.
Osborne Won't Balk Whitman.
"Whitman's taken the catch out OF
the campaign fund business he SAID
"and | don't intend to bother him.
will start in on Friday at o'clock IN
the Capitol at Albany on highways in
vestigation and I'll have all the neces-
sary powers as a commissioner under
| the Moreland act to so ahead on that
| line"
Mr. Osborne. il was learned yester-
dav. telegraphed Commissioner John \.
Carlisle asking him if he could be pres
ent at the first hearing on FRIDAY,
when. il is understood, the Warner
| Ouinlan company charges against Car
| Isle will be taken up. Henry a. Ru-
bino. one of the counsel TO that COM
pany, will probably appear before Mr.,
Osborne, somewhat in the nature of a
prosecuting attirney. and will put be-
fore the investigating commissioner all
the records of the Warner -Quinlan
company's dealings with the Highways
Department under Carlisle
In addition TO that, it was said.
Rubino would also attack Carlisle on
the basis Of his appointments as mem
bers of the Highways Advisory Board
Of George G. Diehl. the county engineer
of Erie. Harold Parker and George De
Hertburn Washington. These three
men have collected about $4,000 as
compensation for a part of their ser
vices 10 the state, and Rubino will con
tend that Carlisle could have obtained
all the necessary advisory information
from experts who are regularly en-
ployed in the department.
Arthur b. Chamberlain, the dealer in
merly employed in the New York Of
! flee Of the Union Oil Cimpany, Of which
| Fillmore COndit is the manager, and
who spent an unpleasant half hour on
the witness stand of the John Doe in
| quiry last Monday, said yesterday that
the statement made to him by Condit
which Mr.. Whitman brought into his
on Tuesday was obtained
! last summer.
The copy Of that statement, which
| Chamberlain showed yesterday, fol-
| lowed substantially the same lines as
| the readings from Condits original
4 VI in 1inin
Chamberlain.
What Condit Told Chamberlain.
Chamberlain said that the conversa-
| ton between Condit and James K. Nc
Guire upon which the statement was
based, occurred on August ., 1872.
Chamberlain was at that time in Con-
dts office. but left it soon after.
About a year later. he said. he went TO
Condit and obtained a copy Of the
statement. which Condit had drawn up
previously. Chamberlain's copy Of that
, statement, made by Condit to him, he
says, was substantially as follows
Early in August, 1912, James X.
!
He said he was no longer connected
with the Parber Asphalt Company; ne
said he knew Of the asphalt speclca-
tions used by the State Highway De
partment, which gave the Barber COM
, pany most of the highway business for
its material. He said this arrangement
had been made by him with the High
| way Department for the Barber com
pany, and that new arrangement was
being made.
This would be received in Septem-
Der, for 500 miles Of road construction
and il was proposed to admit five as
phalt companies, each for 100 miles OF
the roads 10 be built; 100 miles to the
Barber company, 100 miles TO the War
ner- Quinlan company, 100 miles to the
United States Asphalt Refining Com
pany, and that we could have our ma
terials specified for 100 miles on the
roads on the same terms and conditions
as other companies.
II asked MIN what the terms were.
He said we must contribute SJ,oU
toward the campaign fund, and his
brother, George Mcclure. of Syracuse,
must get l cent a gallon for acting
as our agent. He said that the Barber,
the Warner-Quinlan and the United
States Asphalt Refining Company were
going into the arrangement"
Wanted, Card Up Sleeve.