Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-30
Matter of Bookkeeping.


ing transaction and was recorded on the
books as Loaned w s.. under date Of
December 81.
Was this entry made on that date?"
asked kresel.
Fuller explained that it was his book
keepers hand writing and said he did not
know.
The managers believe" said kresel.
that this entry was not made on the
date upon which it purports TO have been
made. and that the writing shows that
fact on its face.
kresel then handed the hook TO the
witness and asked him to total up the
amount loaned by the firm to the gov
ernor up to December 20. 1912.
Don't your books include the S4oWo
80 December 20 In the total of what you
say you loaned the governor?
Yes. the total. including that. was
s1S02S.;
The total debit and credit transactions
on that date according to the books.
amounted to S5S5.9iS
More letters calling upon the governor
10 settle up his account dated In June,
one calling for a deposit of $4,000. were
read into the record by the witness
These letters referred to depositing more
margin.
Triple Victory for Sulzer.
GOV. Sulzer yesterday won a triple vic
tory over his accusers at the trial OF ms
impeachment. Presiding Judge Cullen
of the high court ordered the fntroduc-
ton of evidence intended to prove the
governor had made corrupt poEticaI
BARGAIN with Assemhlyman PatIie OF
Greene county and held as incompetent
testimony brought forward to show that
he had made similar bargains with As
semblyman Sweet Of Oswego county and
Assemhlyman Prime OF Essex
The legislation in each case had to do
with highway bridge improvements pro-
vided for in bills passed by the leg.sla-
ture TO which the assemblymen were de-
sirous of getting the governors sigma
ture In the Patrie case no charges were
brought in the articles OF impeachment
and on this ground Judge Cullen threw
fhe testimony out.
The Sweet and Prime cases were speci-
hed in article VII Of the Impeachment.
charging that the governor had vetoed
one bill and signed the other.
AsSemblyman Sweet testified that when
he urged the governor to approve his bill
he was asked whether he had voted for
the direct primary bill. which had been
defeated In the regular session OF the
legislature. II told him l voted against
It." said the witness.
Court sustains Objection.
The primary bill was to come up again
at the extraordinary session In July and
the governor wanted to know how Sweet
proposed to vote at that time. Sweet
said he replied: According to the senti-
ment and In the interest of my district"
How did you vote on the primary bill
at the regular session." was asked.
To this question the defense objected.
Collection sustained" ruled Judge
Cullen. He has already said he voted
against the bill. and If this witness was
already against the bill II showed he did
not receive the price Of a corrupt bar
gain
On practically the same grounds Judge
Cullen held that the charges in con-
nect!on with the Prime case likewise were
invalid
Tells Of Stock Deals.
Meller B. Fuller produced a transcript
OF Gov. Suffers account with his firm
Harris & Fuller as brought out by the
rawley committee. Counsel for the i'm
parchment managers merely brought out
that during November and December of
1912 Gov. Sulzer paid into the account
$4,000 in cash. just at the close Of the
session the assembly managers intro
dUced as evidence a bank account OF
Hugh j. Reilly. a contractor and railroad
builder for the Cuban government, who
recently announced he had loaned Gov.
Sulzer $4,000 in cash. Reilly had rela-
tons with Sulzer when the latter was
chairman Of the foreign affairs commit
tee in Congress.