New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-01

statement made by the executive Oh
March 10 in announcing that he hao
'withdrawn the stock transfer tax bill.
At that time the Governor said:
1T has aroused considerable, opposition
from sagacious business people through
ont the state. and ! think much VI this
opposition is well founded and that the
bill goes TOO FAR in placing TOO great q
burden of taxation on q. single industry.
The following day Senator StI"eH ss'u
that Governor Sulzer in announcing thal
the bill would be Withdrawn without CON
sul,ing the introducers had treated the
LEGISLATORS like rubber stamps.
Take Up ssreeky's $4,000 Job.
John =. Stanchield made an unsuccess-
full attempt TO introduce testimony .,
John &. Birdseye, secretary OF 'ne w"
Service Commission, regarding the III
stallatIon Of Louis A. SareckN INTO '"e
immigration service after MS resieHa-
ton as campaign secretary to the Gov
srnor. Judge cullen held that the tes-
ti,nonv was not competent at this time
hut might be introduced later.
In addressing the court on the propoSeu
testimony Mr.. Stanchheld outliheo "n"'
he expected to prove by Birdse!e'
said that the Governor induced inc Nv
Service Commission 20 give ny
u.ithout examination a position as an eh-
sniner OF the alien insane at $f""
year whereas Sarecky received between
s. so and $50 as secretary
The reason set forth by the Governor
for excluding Sarecky from examination
uas his Extraordinary htness' "'
Stanchfeld said He further calied "'
tention to the fact that the posiuoh ~
which Sarecky fell heir was ior''o''
occupied BY a physician.
All Of this was preliminary, however
,o nroving the board OF managers eharse
~, ,be Coverro. induced Sarecky to re-
fuee IN testify before the Fra~!ey COM
nittee. II will he asserted saIechy
sur,ed this attitude because ne nao Oee"
given the position.
Frank NJ. Patterson. New YORK law
vor. testified 10 giving 800 In cash 10
Sulzer, and former Congressman iar'eS
= CARRIER. OF Ohio. to giving cheek TOT
,OO Patterson said that he had p'acep
no restriction upon the use OF his coh'H'
hutton. CARRIER said that he had sent VI,
ohocl, ",,ithin ten minutes after nan
road ,ba, the Governor was nominated.
While Aaron J. Levy. chairman h",
Other members Of the Assembly Dosro o'
managers have been giving out Reports
for weeks about the flight OF WITNESSED
&, "a Incoming more and more apparent
=. tho case progresses that these stories
v,ore in the main merely to lead the pub
,;c 70 believe that Sulzer or his counsel
v.rc resnousible for tho disappearance
~ tho mon said TO he wanted. Louis IL.
sareck had to force himself upon the at
,antion Of the subpoena servers before
they could see him. and then, SO Tar as
awning has developed. lie Was not oad'y
wanted. for there has been no big eA-
nosurc bv him Of unaccounted for cam
,..igr contributions as was promised. In
foot he never has been called as Wit
ness.
similar case was exploded to-day
when ex-Judge Joseph 4. He'll. OF J on
kers. attorney for the Stock EXehange
firm OF FULLER e. Gray. was interrogateo
ON the stand as TO the WHEREABOUTS OF
7 y GRAY. n partner in the firm The
Assembly managers have been saying all
along that Gray was the one man VINO
could connect Sulzer with the stock 'Ac-
count No. 100" and that he was missing.
Mr. Bel said. however, that up 10 Satur-
dav AT noon Mr.. Gray had been in his
office daily at No. 50l Fifth avenue
"where there Is no possibility OF conceal
ment."