New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-12
Frawley Report Asserts Sulzer S Sworn State
ment of Campaign Contributions
Was knowingly False
IMPEDING OF JUSTICE ALLEGED
Trading of Executive Approval in Primary War Also
Sareckys Promotion Set Forth Reward for
Observation-Disclosures Tactics and
Withholding of Truth Protested.

From star Correspondent OF Tho Tribune. !
Albany, Aug. 11.-Charging Governor
Sulzer with perjury. the Frawley COM
mittee's report was presented 10 the
| Legislature tonight.
The report declares fatty that SUI
GERS public statements in regard TO hls
| ignorance Of the total Of campaign con-
/ tributions are false and that his sworn
statement of campaign gifts is know
| ingly false. 1t also charges Suizer
with having done everything in MS
/ power TO withhold the truth and Oh
struct the production of evidence and
the course of justice"
While carefully RETAINING from the
suggestion Of impeachment. the report
submits that some action" should be
taken either by the Legislature or by
other author !es.
After Witnesses. Also.
incidentally, the report calls upon
the Legislature 10 punish for contempt
the two recalcitrant witnesses, Louis
! A. Sarecky, who handled the Gov
errors campaign fund, and Fred@lck
l.. Colwell, the former broker, who IS
/ charged with acting as Suffers
dummy" in market operations.
The closing findings and recommen-
dations Of the report follow:
During the time Of these hearings
: and investigations William SuIzer, as
Governor, has done everything in his
power to withhold the truth and OBJ
struct the production Of evidence and
the course of justice. At his instance
and direction both Sarecky, his secre-
tsry: CoIweII, his dummy, and Harris
& Fuller, his brokers, have refused
to testify before tho committee. His
| influence in the promotion Of Sarecky
to an important and lucrative office in
the State Hospital Commission as de-
portation aeent-substitutin5 an mex
perienced young stenographer for an
experienced physician in that place
could only be a reward for Sareekys
silence in protecting the Governor from
damaging disclosures.
governor SulZcT a ldlot HubIN
statement, when on July 80. 1913. he
said that he was away campaigning
and that lie did not know OF the cam
paign contributions omitted from his
sworn statement The F,lkus check
, was Endorsed by Sulzer personally. and
he acknowledged the letter Of Elkus,
! transmitting il as a campaign contri-
| button.
4 Mill. E;ohtip1 EXrhapde
1--WE submit to the Legislature that
| il was false when William Sulzer swore
that he had received only s5,460 Of
campaign contributions and that he did
20 with full knowledge that he had re-
| ccived an amount many times that sum
| and had converted the same TO his pri-
vate uses: that he used contributions
given to aid in his election for the
purchase of stocks in Wall Street,
which he or his agents still hold that
| nc has been engaged in stock market
| speculatiors at the time that he, as
| Governor, was earnestly pressing legis-
lation against the New York Stock EX-
change, which would affect the bust
ness and prices OF the exchange; and
that there was evidence before this
committee to sustain finding that as
! Governor he has punished legislators
who opposed him by vetoing legisla-
ton enacted for the public welfare and
has traded executive approval of bills
for support of his direct primary and
other measures.
I'VE submit TO the Senate and As
sembly that the facts above stated are
sufficiently serious In character and are
so violative of the laws Of this state
and the rules OF fitness and conduct in
high office that the public interests
| demand some action in reference there
| to, whether through the exercise Of
! powers of the Legislature, or by re-
ferring the facts and evidence 10 other
| duly constituted officers charged with
duties in respect thereof.
There is in the possession Of this
committee further authentic informa-
tion OF other similar evidence in re-
spect to the subject Of this report. as
strong in quality and in the large
amounts involved as that on which
sworn testimony has already been
given.
This committee. therefore, has not
completed its investigation either on
this subject or others covered by the
resolutions under which it is acting,
but it has felt that the revelations
set forth in this report and the testi-
mony accompanying il should be
| brought to the attention Of the Legls-
lature at once without awaiting final
report either on this or other subjects
Vital to Clean Government.
"The questions here involved are
! vital 10 clean government. They are
above party or partisanship. They are
vital to the citizens Of the state. and
call for prompt and well considered
action. They call for an answer from
| Governor Sulzer because both his OBJ
structive tactics and his silence war
rant the conclusion that the charges
can neither be answered nor explained
I'VE recommend the punishment for
contempt of Louis A. Sarecky and