Semi-weekly herald., 1913-10-27

charge that Mr.. Mccall acted as Mr..
Murphy's messenger to the governor
does not rest on Mr.. Sulzer's word
alone.
Mr.. Mccall constantly come to the
executive mansion from New York."
said Mrs. Sulzer.
HE was always urging the gov
ernor to do this or that. He even
came to me and said:
"'Mrs. Sulzer, your husband must
do these things; he must do them
or he will be destroyed. You make
your husband do them
Governor Sulzer wanted to tell the
whole story under oath In court. So
determined was he to take the stand
that he had his whole examination,
questions and answers prepared by
some of his lawyers and the evidence
thus taken down in advance under
the most searching investigation,
covered all his dealings with Mr..
Murphy and Murphy's emissaries and
the most minute details of Sulzer's
financial affairs last fall.
| was permitted to read this care
fully worked out record, and then
bulk of my interview in yesterdays
Evening Mail was based, word for
word on it. After Mr.. Sulzer's rev.
elations were made public yesterday
| asked Louie Marshall, cne of tie
distinguished lawyers who appeared
for him in the impeachment trial, to
| explain to the people why Mr.. Sulzer
did not make these disclosures on the
witness stand.
1T was attempted in the begin
ming of the trial to show some of the
conditions which preceded and ac-
companied the impeachment said Mr.
Marshall But the court refused to
allow US to go into what it held to
be outside matters. Then we tried
through the evidence of Commission
er Hennessy to show conditions in the
department of public works, and the
motive for Mr.. Packs damaging tes,
timony, as well as Governor Suffers
efforts to investigate corruption ano
the obvious motive for his impeach.
ment. The court, however, ruled the
evidence out. 1t was made quite Ger.
tain the court would not allow Mr.
Sulzer to tell of his dealings with
Mr.. Murphy
Zone incident bearing on the sec.
ret authority over the actual govern
ment assumed by Mr.. Murphy, as 'tht
chief l ommitted in yesterdays ac'
count of my interview with Mr.. Sui.
ger. Governor Sulzer had prepared q
statement of this reciting all the in.
cidents just as he would have tolG
them on the witness stand. 1t reads
as follows:
after | took office in January
learned that the state architect hac
expended more than $4,300,000 in the
previous year; that this was don,
practically upon the certificate of tn,
state architect and that there hat
been no proper audit.
81 learned also that the appropri
alton for the capitol for 1912 hat
been exceeded by nearly half mil
lion dollars and there was no proper
supervision. / asked committe,
representing the American institute
of architects to make general in
| vestigation and l asked Jno. A. Hen
messy to dig into some Of the ac
accounts which had been presented
for payment.
"The architects reported that ths
state architect, H. w. Hoefer and tn.
deputy state architect, J. P. Powers
were not by training, experienced ol
had ability, competent to fulfill theil
duties. Mr.. Hennessy had found sew
eral questionable contracts and sug
| gested that the state architect be ask
ed for his resignation.
at was shown by Mr.. Hennessy'I
report that only one-haf the quan
tity of glass had been put in certain
rooms of the capitol; that glass three
eighths of an inch thick had been sub
stituted for glass that should hav'
been five-eighths Of an inch thick
Il that glass quarters of an incl
thick had been substituted for glas
which the contract required should b
one inch thick.
i "Carrara glass used in the wains
coating of a certain room whicl
should have been three-quarters o
an inch thick was only three-eighth
of an inch thick and inferior WOO
had been used for certain doors. Nh
Hennessy found that the pay roll
on the electrical contracts had bee
padded.
"Hennessy asked the state architec
for his resignation at my request
Before Hennessy had reported to me
!, Senator Frawley came down stair
and made a protest to me against in
terfering with the work on the stat
capitol or other state buildings, an
. said he believed there was no mater