The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-10

 New York, Dec. 1O-The methods
 hss 5EhicF @-.ss1g contractors rnanipp-- lated contracts in this state were aired l before District Attorney Whitman, in inc John Doe investigations, .yester- day. James E. Garney, noted as a
 close political and personal friend Of
 Charles F. Murphy came to~the front in the graft investigation-
 John M Murphy testified that be sides paying .Gaffney and Carroll more than $7,O0O for their influence, he GOO on the advice of Carroll, who told him he believed it might help them He said he did not consult Gaffney be- fore making this contribution, put talked to him about t1 afterward
 This campaign contribution, he tes- tifed, was suggested to him by c. Cor den Reel, at that time superintendent of highways He saw Reel often in trying to get business for his com pany, said Murphy, and saw him ire uuentIy after the contracts had been awarded It was on one of these lat ter occasions that Reel asked him If he could not do something for the Democratic party. The witness said that MT. Reel did not ask him for money. The sum of $5,000 was men tioned, he said, but he was not sure by whom.
 C. Gordon Reel was removed as superintendent of highways by Gov. SuIzer. James B. Gafney was named as chairman of the advisory commit tee appointed by the Governor to help him in reorganizing the Highways De- partment One object of the commit tee was to assist the Governor in pick ing a competent head for the depart ment MT. Gahney was regarded as candidate to succeed Reel
 I1r d IN1c a Charles F. Murphy sent to him the uItimatum "Gaffney or war" with re- spect to this appointment. The Tam many leader has denied this emphati- cally and Gaffney has declared he wouldn't have taken the job.
 Murphy was the first witness called yesterday.
 He said he was employed by War ren Bros. of Boston in 1911- This company manufactures warrenite and bithuIithic pavement.
 Murphy's contract, which was read, provided that he was to get 12 F cents a square yard for all paving sold to New York State. In return he was to seek business for his company and to advise them as to conditions in which they would be interested He was to pay his own expenses
 The witness said that early in 1912 he began to urge the requests of his company TOT puSAh0SS- IA0 "cS III Albany three days out of the week and saw many persons. Among others he saw Supt. Reel. } Murphy swore he had made Ganney and the late Joseph D. Carroll, an other Tammany power, his equal part 1 ners in the agency he had established | for the sale of the paving products of | the Warren Brothers of Boston to the | State of New York.
 Murphy testified he had been paid | $13O0O in commission by the manu- 1 lecturers, of which he had contributed l S2O0O to George M. Palmer, Demo- cratic State chairman, and divided the s11,OOO in three parts, for himself Gafney and Carroll He had 1 bought their influence, Murphy admit ted, and in return for the money they were to get, Gaffney and Carroll were to t'see'' the State officials who were with the duty of purchasing the goods.
 Gaffney, according to Murphy, was to swing c. Gordon Reel, State High ways Superintendent, selected for the job by Charles F. Murphy and remov- ed finally by Gov. SuIzer. But John was unable to say that Calf ney had done anything that he could put h1s hand on with reference to the contracts finally awarded the com pany he represented.
 While the Gafney testimony was re- garded as highly important by Dis !