Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-04-23
ROOSEVELT UNDER
The GRILL OF IVINS
AT SYRACUSE TRIAL
Attorney Seeks to Show Colonel
Knew He Was Not Eligible
When He Ran for Gov.
ernor Of New York.
BARNES CONTROLS PRINTING
Counsel for I. r. Allows This Testi-
mony to Go in Without
Any Protest.
DEFENSE MAKES NO OBJECTION

SYRACUSE, N. ". April a..
. During the first part of the cross
examination of Theodore Roosevelt
today William WINS, chief counsel
for William Barnes, brought from
the former president the statement
that he knew the constitution Of the
state of New York provides that no
man is eligible to the office of gov
ernor unless he has been a resident
of the state for five years prior tc
the date OF his election, and that he
had made~an affidavit the year pre-
.-yious to his own election that he was
and for some time had been resi-
dent OF Washington.
Colonel Rooseyelt's counsel made
no objection whstever to, the line of
questioning which resulted in these
statements.
Barnes Controls Printing.
There was delay In opening court be-
cause Of a conference between attorneys
and Justice Andrews In the latter's
chambers. A copy of the report OF the
Bsyne committee. which investigated Al
bany county affairs, insofar as it re-
lated TO printing. was admitted in the
record
This had to do with contracts for state
printing let % tho Albany journal. Mr..
Barnes paper, and other concerns. and
the assignment Of certain of these con-
tracts.
Excerpts from the report were then
read. The first part had to do with
gambling. disorderly houses and the pay
neht Of money to various officials for
doing various things The report OF the
committee was made In 1911. The ma
jority Of the stock of the Journal COM
pany. the report pointed out, was owned
By William barnes, that contracts let to
the Journal company were farrned out TO
the Argus COMPANY, which paid the
Journal company Is per cent.
I The report stated william Barnes con-
trolied printing in Albany. practically was
owner OF one company, owned one-fourth
Of another and collected tribute from the
third company. The report declared that
an cmploye of the Argus company testi-
fled before the COMMITTEES that The COM
pany gave up Is per cent in order to se-
cure printing business
1t was stated that the Argus company
bid lower than other competitors for the
state work. but. was unable to get the
business because It was outside the
ring. II was said further that public doc
uments supposed to have been printed by
the journal company and bearing that
CONCERNS imprint, actually were printed
By the Argus company.
Barnrs Beneficiary of Graft.
''Pedding Of public printing for the
benefit OF the Journal company" was
described by the report. Another part
read.
duplicate payments for public print
ihg were made TO the Journal company"
s One excelpt was: "The most conspieu-
Gus Beneficiary OF graft public extrava-
ganee and raiding Of the municipal treas
ury we find from the evidence to be
William Barnes himself as the owner Of
the majority OF the stock OF the Journal
esrirsny. How much more than the
majority OF tho stock he owned he re-
fused to disclnse.
Anothe. excerpt read: "Mr Barnes die
tates where printing goes and the Argus
gives UP 10 tho Journal in order to OBJ
fsin printing
Tho par value OF Mr.. Barnes stock in
the Lyon concern was $4,000. the report
stated. with the comment that Mr.
Barnes would not say how he got Il.
Articles which appeared I'm the New
York magazines and newspapers about
Albany politier were then admitted 10
the record. Tho terms machine poll
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