Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-05-06
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Syracuse. y. Y, May i-TheodorC
Roosevelt again went upon the wtnese
stand in the supreme court here to-day
after many witnesses including a son
and a former secretary Of the late
Thomas c. Platt-the easy boss and
Franklin D. Roosevelt. assistant secre-
tary of the navy, had testified in his be-
half
The former president intended, under
new ruling of the court, to offer testi-
mony designed to show that he harhored
no malice for William Barnes. II was
also his intention to tell about certain
things not specified in the pleadings. which
under the original ruling, we're excluded.
But errors committed in transcribing his
testimony under direct and cross-exami-
nation were pointed out So tho colonel
used up nearly an hour and q half of the
afternoon session in correcting them. His
counsel planned to have him resume the
stand I'm the morning
Edward r. Plat. son of the former
senator, who testified produced letters
that passed between the easy boss' and
Mr. Barnes In which the printing business
and politics appeared 10 be more or less
linked. In these letters Mr.. Ba rnes de-
nounced Lemuel +. Quigg, who, he wrote.
! was iilt'T'HNtl III IL tOIllTdtL LOT IeBlSlN-
tive printing. He also wrote that he was
against the establishment Of another
printing plant in Albany and complained
that Archibald Baxter, clerk of the As
senhly in 1894. was about to deprive him
OF n Legitimate piece Of patronage" in
the form OF printing, as punishment for
having supported Levi p Morton for gov
| ernor
SAYS TT WAS "A LIE"
! The former chairman Of the republican
State committee wrote further that he
! had been told that Mr. Baxter had said
he had suh-let a contract to q democrat
and that such statement was "a lie
| In nearly every letter politics or print-
Ing. or both were discussed
| In reply to one Of the letters abots
the apparent disagreement over a cons
/ tract between Mr. Qugg and Mr.. Barnes
Senator Plat wrote that the matter
! is of so much consequence that I had a
personal interview with Mr.. Quigg" and
that he hoped the thing could 'be adj
| iusted without appeal to the courts
| The senator also wrote reprovingly that
/ it seemed to him that Mr.. Barnes atti-
| tude toward Mr.. Quigg was unjustlfled.
| The former secretary of the easy boss
was Thomas s. Huff. who said that dur
ing 1891, 1872 and 1909 he read every letter
| his employer mailed or received. He
swore that he had seen in letters writ
! ten by Nj Barnes mention of the ]. e.
| Lyon company of Albany. and that once
/ Mr.. Barnes did seek the senator's inter
! cesson with certain officials in Albany
/ in connection with certain printing con-
| tracts In fact. the witness said. prac-
tically all the correspondence between
! Mr. Barnes and his employer was In re-
gard to Mr.. Barnes printing interests"
| in Albany
AGREEMENT WITH MURPHY
Franklin D. Roosevelt vas in the State
Senate the time a deadlock finally re-
suited in the election of James \.
! OIOrman 10 represent Now York in the
/ United States Senate. He said under
/ oath he had told M Barnes of con-
versation with Senator Grady, organza-
/ ton democrat. in which the senator as
serted that he understood Mr.. Barnes
! had an agreement with Charles +.
Murphy of Tammany hall that the re-
| publicans should hold out for ChaunCey
! Depew and thus give the democrats an
! opportunity to elect William +. Sheehan.
! The witness added that he asked Mr.
| Barnes whether the deadlock could not
! bee ended Mr. Barnes he said replied:
! NO, We can't do it now
The other witnesses who appeared up
on the stand testified about printing and
| contracts. Contrary TO the expectation
| of spectators and the original plans of
counsel. Mr.. Barnes himself did not go
| upon the stand He produced some of the
books of the Albany Journal company
asked for by counsel for the defendant
however, and these We're turned over by
William NJ WINS his chief counsel.
WAGNER SUBPOENAED.
Albany. y. Y. May 4.-Robert F.
Wagner, democratic leader of the New
York State Senate tonight was sub
ipoenaed as a witness In the Barnes
Roosevelt trial He will he notified by
telegraph when his presence is re-
Iquired.
| Reports We're current tonight that
both former Governor Glynn and Albert
f.. Smith, democratic leader of the As
sembly. had been subpoenaed. Giynn
denied the report. Smith is now in
New York.