The Washington herald., 1915-05-05

to Bornes. was interfering with Barnes
plans to get state work for his presses.
The letter intimated that Plat could
all Quigg off II he would Apparently
Plat. with characteristic foxiness turn
ed this letter over to Quigg. for the next
Barnes letter reproached the easy boss
for permitting Quigg to learn his
Barnes state OF mind.
BY way Of proving that Barnes was in
a complaining mod at that time 1889
to 1904. Thomas Salisbury HouSh.
Platt's secretary in those years. was
called to the stand and gave as his best
recollection that he had seen number
of letters from Barnes to Plat. bespeak-
ing the Senator's assistance In the print
ing matter. Hough was called after Ed
ward 7. Plat. son of the dead Senator.
had testified that some of his fathers
had been destroyed.
May BE Boomernngs.
While the Plat letters did good serv-
ice for Roosevelt they proved at least
a potential two-edged sword. When the
younger Plat was on the stand WINS
extracted from him the statement that
in the grip at his feet were many letters
written to Plat while Roosevelt was
President These letters, If they are
what WINS seems to think they are. will
be sprung on Mr.. Roosevelt when he
takes the stand for cross-examination to-
morrow.
On resuming the job this morning, Mr.
Bowers decided not to call Barnes. The
admission that Barnes is the largest
shareholder in the Albany Journal Com
pany was made by the Barnes side.
And that was all Bowers wanted to find
out from the plaintiff at first hand.
The Colonel was called in the after
noon. He was about to testify when
the justice informed him that IL he
cared TO he would be given an oppor-
tunity to examine and correct the rec
ord of his testimony. Not only did he
care to. but when he gave'the record
the once over he was so sure that he
had been incorrectly reported that the
jury was dismissed and he spent the
remainder of the session picking flaws
in the typewriter report of his words.
The justice and lawyers for both sides
remained in court while he engaged.
painstakingly and energetically, upon
this task.
Tomorrow morning he will resume
the stand to give new testimony as to
his lack Of malice and to bring mis-
case practically to an end by a last
defiance Of the cross-examiner.
Employees and business associates Of
Mr.. Barnes in the printing business in
Albany were under fire by Mr.. Bowers
in the early part of the session. Charles
NJ Winchester. vice president and gen
eral manager Of the J. b Lyon Company.
which does the lions share OF the State
printing discovered that he could not
produce many OF the books p. had been
asked to produce. He vc'IEteered to
give oT-hand all the infprr on Bowers
wanted about the cost - .'...is work, but
when pinned down as IT, figures for
the .plums Of New Yo.- and birds
Of New York" and some OF the other
expensive volumes published by the State
he failed to deliver.
Bowers bombardcd Winchester for an
hour but got no results. and finally i'm
patiently dismissed him with the request
that he return to court better prepared
to testify.
Friend Got Contract.
The dealings OF Oliver A. Quayle with
the state were verified by Charles B.
Foster. secretary OF the State printing
board. Quayle. who is a friend Of Barnes. !
bid for and got a big printing contract
md promptly turned it over to the ]. B. !
Lyon Company. That was In 1907, at
which time Barnes held 80 of the 5000 |
shares OF the company. Foster admitted |
that there was no record of any ap-
prevail by the board of the assignment |
Of this contract. ,
The case for the defense may close to- |
morrow unless too much time is occu-
pied in reading the Platt letters to the |
Colonel.
Barnes is in daily attendance at the |
trial and is apparently hungering and |
for an opportunity to take the |
stand.
1t will be through his testimony that |
attacks must be made on the charge of |
BIZ partisanship testified to by Loeb and |
by Franklin ID. Roosevelt |
The Barnes witnesses will be few and
will be used chiefly in rebuttng the
evidence supplied by the Colonel in Justi-
acation and mitigation of the articles
which Barnes asserts damaged him to
he extent Of 10000.