New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-20
Revises $500 Explanation.

! When the District Attorney brought him
back to his $500 contribution TO Su'zer
after the impeachment. Mcclure offered
revised explanation about ii in these
words:
After gave him that money realized
that it was a good deal for me to give.
and told Arthur S. Johnson. the Barber
sales agent, about it. and asked him TO
contribute one-half of it, A week or so
afterward he sent me his check for $50 ="
Then that $3.50 wasn't a commission
from sales?" Whitman shot at him.
swell. don't recall whether told him
/ to take il out OF the commissions"
But you went to Johnson after you
| gave the 800 to the Governor
yes" Mcguire replied. but don't
recall Mr.. Ah-Johnson, that Is. Mr.-ah-
| Richmond. l mean Mr. Whitman. don't
recall whether that was commissions or
not"
| Mcclure was probably more shaky at
this point than at any time during the
! afternoon. He realized that he was con-
| tradicting his earlier account Of the Bar
Der check for $50. and he was plainly
| worried as 10 Wnelner he was lnNOlNlIB
himself in further trouble.
| Now, when the Governor asked you
| for that 50. 800, didn't he say that you and
your brother had been making a good
deal of money from contractors. and that
the Barber company had been making a
| lot OF money!
Mcclure insisted that Sulzer had not
| said anything except to ask for the $500,
and Whitman took up the matter OF the
work he had done in behalf Of the
United States Asphalt Refining Company.
! did you know that theirs was the
| highest bid?" he asked
mo, I didn't know that. I was TO get
one cent gallon from them, and asked
| Mr. Carlisle and others to buy their prod
! uct"
Judge McAdoo interrupted the proceed
| ings to ask Mcclure as to the exact con-
/ versation with Johnson when he persuad-
| ed the Barber sales agent TO contribute
! $50 toward the $500 contribution he had
already made to Sulzer.
81 might have said that IL might help
us to make sales. and it might generally
help US to help the Governor" Mcclure
said.
Whitman took up the conference be-
tween Mcclure and Hennessy in the Hotel
Utica, when, Hennessy testified, Mcclure
gave him the list OF big contractor con-
tributors Mcclure began then series Of
reluctant admissions which corroborated
practically everything that Hennessy had
previously testified to.
Even with the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company, which, Mcclure admitted, he
had named to Hennessy as a contributor
of 5000, the witness insisted he could
not recall who had given him the In
| formation. 1t waS the same with the
Kerbaugh contribution OF 5000 and with
the Tarvia compary's contribution OF the
same amount, and the same with all con-
| tributions Of which he had given informa-
ton to Hennessy.
In a final effort to break through Nc
Cures stubborn insistence as to his lack
OF memory, the District Attorney went at
him savagely with open references to his
perjury which made Mcclure vince.
Admits His Perjury.
"Your explanation of your previous
statements is that when you testified be-
fore you deliberately perJured yourself
| isn't it?" he asked.
We'll, I'm trying to tell the truth now"
| Mcclure answered.
And yet you can't recall the name OF
a single person who gave you any of this
information"
mo, l can't recall" said Mcclure; III
knew I'd tell you. because you'll find
out anyway"
| Mcclure appealed to his lawyer. MI
| Wise. and said he wasn't feeling well,
| and the hearing was adjourned to next
4 Friday afternoon
The District Attorney arranged to
| subpoena the bank accounts OF MCGUIRE
g. Co, of George II. MCGUIRE and the
Joint account of George II. and James x.
/ Mcclure, from Syracuse. for the next
hearing. and a process server was sent to
| Albany TO subpoena Arthur S. johnson.
! the Barber sales agent.
Mr.. Whitman said former Governor Dix
would have the opportunity to take the
| stand at any time to give his explana-
ton of McGure's story involving him,
hut Sulzer, he intimated. would have TO
wait until the evidence disclosed his exact
status.