New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-24
JAMES K. MCGUIRE
MAY BE INDICTED
Continued from frst page.

contracts were to be drawn up by the
state Highways Department i'm such a
wax as 10 let in the products of four
other companies. IN addition to the Bar
Der company. each company getting
Union Oil Company could come In as one
Of the five favored companies If 1t would
agree TO the terms proposed"
Mr.. Condi, said that he thought that
sounded encouraging. because his com
pany had been trying to furnish asphalt
TO public contractors on state work with
out success, and he asked what the terms
would be
Mcclure replied" he continued: THE
terms are campaign contribution OF
$4,000 for use i'm the campaign to be con-
Quoted this fall and a commission of one
cent gallon on all products furnished
by your company to the contractors. this
commission TO be paid to George H. Nc
CURE. OF Mcclure & Co. Syracuse
Condit said that he wanted to get all
the information he could about the sys-
tenn, so he asked Mcclure when the CON
tribution' would have 10 be paid.
THE $4,000 campaign contribution will
have TO be paid at once; the one cent a
gallon commission can be paid as the ma =
terial is furnished by your company" he
says Mcclure told him.
In answer TO further questions. Condit
found that he could not get any guaran-
tee that his company would get I'm on the
specifications from Mcclure but that he
would simply have 10 leave IL TO Nc
CURE" While he had no intention Of
accepting McGuires hold-up proposal, he
says he tried TO get all possible informa-
ton out of the Barber Company's agent.
and TO further this end he figured up
roughly then and there what the com
missions would amount TO II his COM
pany was allowed TO sell one-hfth OF the
materials OF the big state Job of road
missions would figure up about $500
making total of $4,000, including the
contribution.
While It was not suggested by Nc
CURE" Condit says. that the 5000 fee
should be included in the bid of the Union
Oil Company. that seemed TO be taken
for granted as part of the proposition,
10 such an extent that when / mentioned
figure at which we could pay the s2o,ot
and still make a profit on the transac-
ton. Mcclure said the figure would be
too low and would make trouble for the
other bidders. who would ne putting in
higher figures"
After further discussion, Condlt says he
allowed Mcclure 70 believe that the Union
Oil Company would come into the propo-
sition, and Mcclure then told him that he
was leaving the next day on a business
trip 10 Tennessee, and directed him 70
carry out the arrangement with George
II. Mcguire, of Syracuse.
The next day. Condit says. he was
called on the telephone from Syracuse
and a man who said he was George H.
Mcclure said he understood that Condi'
had had a conference the previous day
with his brother. James X. Mcclure
Condit put him of with the answer that
the Union Oil Company had not arrived
at a decision. and the same man called
him the next day. Condit then turned the
proposition down.
George H. Mcclure on the witness stand
last week. when asked by District Attor-
ney Whitman about these telephone con-
versations, said he wasn't sure whether
II was his brother or he that had talked
over the telephone 10 Condit.
Condit says that McGuire's proposal, ds
he recalls IT, was accompanied by the ex-
PLANTATION that the Warner-Quinlan com
pany. the Warren Brothers. OF Boston
and the United States Asphalt Rehnine
Company were the three other companies
In addition TO the Barber and the Union
Oil, which were 10 be allowed TO come in
George II. Mcclure admitted on the
witness stand in the John Doe inquiry
that either he or his brother had put this
proposition TO the Warner-Qulnlan Com
pany and to Condit. but he denied ap'
preaching the Warren Brothers, OF Bos-
ton. He admitted that the United States
Asphalt Refining Company and the Bar
Der firm were under agreement 10 pay his
brother, James K, and himself one cent
and one-half cent a gallon. respectively
for every gallon OF asphalt or asphalt OF
they sold to the state or to the state
highway contractors since the Sulzer ad-
ministration came into office.
In view Of Condit's story, the Coop
erstown conference" at which 1t has been
said that Sulzer, Carlisle and the two
McGuires discussed the specifications foI
highway contracts on July last, has
become increasingly important and Mr.
Whitman will make an enort 10 suDstah'
tiate that story this week
II Is understood that stephen Clark. OF
the thread millionaire family OF Ciarh
Brothers, who lives in Cooperstown' either
hapnened to see Governor Sulzer ano
Commissioner Carlisle In Cooperstown OF
that day. or dropped I'm for brief cha'
with the Governor in the hotel there pu'
both Sulzer and Carlisle have denied tha'
they were there. Clark has been frleno
of Sulzer, and during the last summer
"The Knickerbocker Press" Of Albany
owned by the Clarks. supported Suizei
hotly. II is expected that Clark VIII D
called as a witness shortly, either before
Chief Magistrate McAdoo i'm the John Doe
inquiry or before the grand jury.
Arthur $. johnson. the Barber sales
agent. who Mcclure has testified Is the
man he looked to for his commissions or
all Barber sales 20 contractors during the
present year. Will be another witness
probably this week. He is expected t.
testify that he has sent seven different
checks 10 George H. Mcguire, although
Mcclure has insisted that he got but two
checks from Johnson, one for $3.50 and
the other for $500.
Several upstate contractors who met
and dealt with Everett =. Fowler on his