New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-06

poned until tomorrow, when Mr. WINS
will be in court
Colonel Roosevelt was the only wit
ness to-day 20 inject the direct issue
OF bcssism into the case. Printing con-
tracts still occupied the greater part
Of the dav. and counsel for the defence
seemed satisfied that they had pro
gre,scd a little further in their task
Of pinning the printing scandal on Mr..
Barnes.
William VI. Hotchkiss. eX-Superin-
tendent Of Insurance. brought IN new
phase Of the printing situation. Books,
thousands and thousands OF them. with
yellowinC leaves and dusty covers,
crammed the attic Of the Insurance De
partment when he assumed Office IN
1909. he said. lie found that they were
reports OF his own department. for
which the department could find no
use. but which the insurance law and
the state printing law compelled the
department to print al the rate OF 6,OoO
year.
Mr.. Ho.chkiss resolved that he, at
least would not add to the cobwebby
collection in the attic. He found that
the J. b. LYON Company had the con
tract 10 print that years report, and he
he would like 70 have them cut their
order from 1000 20 $500. Charles NJ.
Winchester. vice president OF the com
pany. replied that il could not be done.
The law required 1000 copies for gen
eral distribution. he wrote. and the es-
Inmates 81 the company had been based
on that number.
Still Mr. Hotchkiss was not content.
Prune it rs he might, n report Of his
department. took FIVE volumes. With
ont even resorting 10 his fingers, Mr..
Hotchkiss figured that if he had 1000
more reports than he needed he would
have 10000 volumes to add to his top
story library.
Mr.. Hotchkiss rotated, quite without
heat. the difficulties that beset the path
Of an insurance superintendent deslr-
Gus Of amending the law so that he
would not have 10 store his reports IN
the garrett. Two bills he had got be-
fore the Legislature. One had been
absorbed by a committee and was
never heard o. again. The other had
actually been passed by both houses and
signed by he Governor. In the As
sembly, however, a cute little amend
ment had been tied 10 II which made
the bill refer only to the insurance
law. Thus. after its passage, the in
surance law called for only 1000 copies
while the state printing law still de-
handed 5000
A good part If the morning was
spent in an effort TO show that the
journal Company received commissions
from the J. 3. Lyon Company on pub
lie printing contracts and that Mr..
Parnes, president IF the Journal com
pany, was familiar enough with the
books 10 know what was going on.
Charles VI. Winchester. Of the Lyon
Company, readily admitted that COM
missions were paid to the Journal
Company. The Lyon Company would
pay commissions TO anybody that
brought in business. he said.
A payment Of $4,000 TO the Jour
nal Company in 1906. Mr.. Winchester
thought, was for stock owned by Mr..
Barnes. When he was reminded that
Mr.. Earnest did not dispose Of his
Lyon Company stock until 1912 Mr..
Winchester was stumped. A commits
sion of $4,000 he admitted. The de-
fence expects TO prove that the Lyon
Company made some payments for
which no work was done.
The books Of the Journal Company.
il was found, carried a Barnes account,
which included payments OF his salary
of $500 q month, dividends and with
drawals for personal expenses. John
NJ. Bowers, counsel for Colonel Roose-
welt, thought this showed that Will
lam Barnes must take look at the
books now and then.
Edward Plat was on the stand for
moment. and deposited with the court
352 letters and kilograms that passed
between Colonel Roosevelt and Senator
Platt between 1899 and 1909 Probably
none will he used in evidence. Their
production was to show that all had
not been produced on the original sub
pPna.