New-York tribune., 1913-10-24
As to Telephone Bills.

Hennessy took up in passing the story
published in yesterday afternoons papers
~ tie effect that Tammany was look
ing .Eto" the large telephone bills from
the Executive Mansion while Sulzer WAS
it's occupant He warned Tammany that
he. Eennessy, had the records OF tile
same thing in the Dix administration.
I'VE have enough issues in this cam
paign," he said but If they state any
thing more about the expenses of the Tx
ecutive Mansion. iu order 10 throw mud
at a citizen they have already deposed.
will read. the next time | have an op-
portunity, the expenses Of the Executive
Mansion I'm the year Of our Lord 1912,
and they won't be talking about the ex-
penses under Sulzer. but this community
will be laughing at what happened under
John y. Dix"
Taking up Murphys assertion that he
would answer Hennessy's query about the
SOS. 900 contribution Of Judge Samuel A.
Beardsley last fall before the campaign Is
over. Hennessy said that for the sake OF
making IL one job for Murphy he would
add a few queries about the unrecorded
contributions of.1910, 1911 and 1912, 50
that Murphy could answer as to them all
at the same time.
81 want to ask Mr.. Murphy this ques-
ton. first" said Hennessy. ''in relation
10 the campaign Of 1910. when men went
to him with money with big money
Didn't he tell them TO 20 10 J. Sergeant
Cram with IT? Wen, ] don't accuse J.
Sergeant Cram with any dishonesty. and /
guess ne is just AS good a man 10 hold
money for any specific purpose as any
body in Tammany Hall, but want to ask
j. Sergeant Cram what he did with the
money he received in the campaign of
1910? Into whose pockets did that morey
go? Was that money accounted for? And
if accounted for was IL accounted for
publicly In the office of the Secretary Of
state?
II want TO say TO Mr. J. Sergeant Cram
that ! am inquisitve about that, mas
much as Mr.. Murphy's Legislature was so
anxious 10 find out how much money
SulZer got. and convict him of high
crimes and misdemeanors In getting that
money away from 18th Street. Now, Of
course, even a man such as Mr.. Murphy
is entitled TO the fairest treatment in this
campaign and entitled to the farest
treatment outside the campaign. He is,
of course, a public fgure-a very large
public figure-but he is entitled to all the
consideration we can give him: and he
may not know about some OF this money;
but this money was subscribed, and II Is
not recorded. and it went somewhere,
and perhaps it would be good thing for
Governor Glynn to shape up the entire
situation by calling an extraordinary
grand jury in Albany County to investi-
gate the whole matter.
Now, ! want to know about the cam
paign OF 1911, where a great amount OF
money was collected In order to elect a
Democratic Legislature for the purpose
OF sending William +. Sheehan TO the
United States Senate ! want TO know
who got the money OF Joseph Walker. of
New Paltz, $1,000; | want to know who
got the money Of Patrick Murray. Of
Rochester, $1,000: | want to know who
got the money OF w. ]. Burns e. Co, OF
Syracuse, $3.50: / want to know who got
the money of John n. Weidman. OF syra-
cuse. $3.50: ] want TO know who got the
money Of w. J. Dwyer. OF Syracuse, $3.50
or Of Guy b. Dickinson. OF Syracuse. $3.50
They are not recorded even by Bagman'
Mclean, Of Newburgh.
II want to know how much Richard
Hopkins, Of Troy, paid / want to know
how much the Spear Brothers, of Water
town paid. or the Shunnymuch Construc-
tion Company OF Highland Mills, or the
Bridgeport Construction Company, of
Poughkeepsie. Now. | have a great many
more here in the highway business. but |
win wait 70: another night on them, ana
will come to the barge canal contractors
81 want Mr.. Murphy to tell me whether
he or Mr.. Mack, or somebody represent
ing both, received $500 from James Stew
art last year, $500 from James Stewart
the year before, and $1,000 in bills from
James Stewart In 1910. And want to tel
Murphy that know the man that James
Stewart paid the $4,000 in cash TO. And
l want to tell Murphy that that gentle
man admitted 10 me in the presence of
responsible witnesses that he got the
money Now, | ask Murphy did ttat
man pay II to him? And | want 10 ask
Murphy why that $500 was not ac.