The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-05-08
MORE BARNES
PROFITS SHOWN
Roosevelt Scores in Final Effort to Con-
meet Republican State Leader with
Albany printing Ring"

Syracuse, n. Y, May s.-The Roose
welt side scored heavily again yesterda.
in final attempt to connect William
Barnes with the huge profits upon stat
printing work performed by the Alban,
printing ring"
Chief of the points developed was tn
fact that Barnes company received |.
per cent. commission for discount
for printing work which was given di
rectly to the j. b. Lyon company, il
which Barnes was heavy stakeholder.
From an unwilling Lyon company wit
ness, John M. Bowers, for the colonel
dragged the astonishing explanation tina,
the reason why many lucrative speca
printing jobs were handed directly tC
the Lyon company was that friendly
clerks and departmental heads 'knew
! that The Journal would give the work
to u.s." On these jobs, not awarded tc
the Journal company, Barnes got a
''rake-of" of 10 per cent, it was ad.
mitted.
Charles M. Winchester, general man
ager of the j.. b. Lyon company, the
Albany printing concern in which Barnes
formerly had large interest, returned
here from Albany yesterday, and the de.
Tense promptly put him again on the
witness stand when the session was
resumed
Asked how it happened that the Jour.
nal company has received commissions
on work which the Lyon company re-
ceived, Winchester explained it in this
fashion:
''There is certain printing work which,
under the state printing law, is exempt
from public bidding. This work is CON
trolled by departmental heads and by
the clerks of the Senate and Assembly.
They can give it to whomsoever they
please During the years that they gave
it to The Journal, we did it and gave
The Journal the usual trade discount"
The practice of giving the Journal
company Is per cent. commission on
ted, to city and county printing affairs,
too.
On cross. examination by Mr.. Wolf for
Barnes, the witness said that he had
talked with Barnes about billing work
which The Journal secured Barnes, he
asserted, had told him that the work
should be billed. TO The Journal, mas
much as the latter was responsible for it.
Winchester took great pains to explain
the difference between contract work
and special jobs let without contract
and insisted that the commission paid
The journal WAS only regular trade
discount, The journal being unable to
do the work, because it hadn't job
plant of its own.
Following his talk with Barnes-this
was some years ago-the Lyon company
placed Journal imprint on work done
for the Albany county authorities, in.
stead of its own mark, the witness said
Didn't you testify the other day that
you had never talked about printing
matters with Mr.. Bsrnes!" Mr. Bowers
asked.
Il meant only city printing"
ooh, YOU meant only city printing
Now | ask you if you ever talked with
him about city, county or state print |
ng?"
"Well, living in the same city and |!
running across him hundreds of times, | |
probably did"
when you talked with Mr.. Barnes
about printing, were you sent forf"
'Yes, sir
.Who sent for your"
"They telephoned for me to come TO
The Journal office. ] saw Mr.. Barnes in
us private Office. The business We talked |
bout was that Mr.. Barnes said that all
he state work that we had secured from
The journal should be billed to The
Journal After that we put The journal
imprint on the work and billed it to The
Journal"