New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-29
Whitman Prefers Not TO
Raise Question Of Pro-
priety at This Time.
WILL CALL OTHERS
ON CANAL BOARD
Thirty Brokers SupGnaed to Pro-
duce Accounts of Suspected
Tammany Men.

District Attorney Whitman has dec'deo
not to call Governor Glynn TO tesulY De
fore the grand jury regarding the hoid-
M Of James c. stewards s5.00O.OOO bias
5y the Barge Canal Board, Of when
Governor Glynn. then Lieutenant Gov
ernor was a member in January. 1918.
More than thirty heads Of brokerage
houses were subpDnaed yesterday by
Mr. Whitman 10 produce the accounts
Of Tammany officials who are under sus-
picion. Men in the financial district SAID
that the accounts II practically all Tam
many politicians were carried in the
names Of others. They carried on all
business transactions by telephone. thus
making It impossible TO tell whom they
represented.
Except Governor, Glynn. all members
Of the Canal Board during l9l2-13 nave
been asked by Mr.. Whitman TO testify
and il is expected that some VIII re-
spond TO-DAY. Mr Whitman did not wish
20 bring ~ the issue of propriety IN
Governor GIynns case. so he determined
&c exempt the chief Executive The
personnel Of the board in 1912 was:
Members Who May Testify.
Lieutenant Governor Conway. Secre-
tary Of State Lazansky. Controller Will
lam II. Sohmer. Treasurer John }. Ken
ncdy. Attorney General Thomas Car
moody. state Engineer John n Bensel
and Duncan W Peck Superintendent of
Public Works
Governor Glynn succeeded Lieutenant
Governor Conway and Secretary Of state
Mitchell May took Mr.. Lazanskys place
i'm 1918. Otherwise the board remained
the same
Stewart has sworn that one James r.
GaTney solicited from him 4 $4,000
political contribution while his contract
VAS pending in Albany He would not
swear that his James +. Gaffney was
the friend of Charles 7. Murphy.
Senator O'Gorman. Stewards counsel
said on Sunday that after the incident
in question" Stewart went TO Murphy
ard complained that Gahney was trying
to hold him up for . per cent Of his
contracts Murphy. Senator OGorman
said professed TO know nothing about
the matter
Ex-Governor Sulzer testified last weeF
that Senator OGorman told him tina
Gaffney was Murphy's "bagman,' an'
that It was O'Gorman who went TO Muir
ply ard threatened 10 expose Murphy Il
/ Gaffney didn't stop trying TO blackjack
/ his client. Murphy has repeatedly de
cared ne knows nothing about Gaffney'
/ visit TO Stewart He said he hadn't seer
/ Stewart in several years.
Mr.. Whitman rested on Stewards re
/ fusal TO identify Gaffney the solicitor al
| Murphy's friend until Ex-Governor Sulze
took the stand and swore that George II
Mcclure partner of Charles F. Murphy
! ir.. I'm the oonding business, told him tina
"a great injustice was being done Il
Stewart by the Canal Board
Sulzer said he teiegraphed the boar
! on December IS. 1912, TO defer action OF
Stewards bids until he conferred with tn
board. The message, he said, cause
great CONSERVATION. Fifteen persons, h
said. knew of it within an hour after !
was received. and frantic efforts Wer
i'made. ne declared, TO reach Murphy Il
New York and at Good Ground to fin
out what it meant.
II was while the board was considering
the contractors offer to make concession
if two Of his bids were awarded tina
James +. Gaffney asked him for pc
cent contribution. Stewart refused I
contribute, as he had previously give
$500.