New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-18
Thompson Will Ask Head
of marlborough About
Talk with Lane.
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BACK FROM EUROPE
Inpromptu Poet and Orators
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nOgrapher SubpGnaed.

Theodore ?. Shouts will be recalled
30 The stand to-day b. the Thompson
committee. II j. expected that he will
be examined afresh as to the confer
ercs re- had wiki The late Gardiner W..
Lane. o. which he talked OF commit
mcats .ad obligations.
J.. Va George ". Youag's testimony
regarding tbs conference that gave rise
10 ne talk Of 100000 slush fund.
While ,.r. Shonts will be testifyine
the American liner Philadelphia, on
which J. ?. Morgan is q passenger. will
be approaching Sandy Hook. She is to
dock tonight.
Mr.. Morgan will prof. ably be called
on Friday TO tell what he knows OF
Young's story Of siush fund. When
Mr. Morgan was a witness some months
ago the Thompson committee did not
have in It's possession the facts 1t now
has.
Many Subjects Discussed.
Yesterdays session OF the committee
IVES a revelation TO Senator Thompson.
|: was announced b. him a week ago
that il would be e meeting az which any
one could express On opinion on the
,-oro,al 10 take the control OF the
amid transit work in this city out o.
.be hands Of the Public Service Com
mission and lodge it With the city au'
thori;ie..
The first speaker was Wesley Walt a
dentist OF Newburg He told the com
r,ittee of corresponding with President
Wr,on. Governor Whitman and Attor-
new General Woodbury.. He said his
nstrjotism was inherited. His father
in.law wss General Grants chief OF
,taf. DR.. Wait spoke not only Of dual
subway contracts and the Public Ser
vice Commission, both of which ne at
tackled. but Of the French Revolution
and che Roman dynasty"
Another speaker was Peter Schlosser'
He came with whiskers and poetry. lie
unburdened himself Of the latter, and
said that while he wanted to see 'he
Public Service Commission abolished
no wanted tho Thompson committee
ers. n annihilate the Bar Association.
He explained that there was no need
If building the subwsys. he said they
were the creation Of conspiracy
among real estate owners who wanted
70 sell lots worth 81 for big prices
This ne said in poetry.
Orator Flags p. 5.
Still another speaker was Leo Ken
meth Mayer. Of Brooklyn, who said that
p. 6. c. did not mean Public Service
Commission, but Procrastinatlng som
nambulistic Commission. II IS IN the
hands Of the corporations, SAID Mr.
MAYER. who admitted ne was student
OF hubble service laws, and ofered some
Of his own making 20 replace the pres
ent ones. ,oo u,.,,,.
Street. an insurance man TOOK so Ge-
rided n stand against interfering WIN
,ba Public Service Commission that
senator Thompson asked him Il he was
interested financially IN the corpora
lions subject 10 the commission. Nf.
Walker said he was not ,,.r-
"C;oyernor Whitman" said Ny. Walk
or has appointed d new commission
For Gods sake let them alone. Let
them do something. have no criu,,
cism Of you or anyone else here, and
~ ION thought Mr.. Hervey or Mr..
Wbf,nev were not fitted for their
places. all right. But beg you not
- 20 into post mortems. Let the work
20 or. am told that the engineers
- The Public Service Commission are
not supervising the construction Work
because they are under subpoena here.
Girl Stenogrspher SubpGnaed.
Senator Thompson interrupted and
said:
There are fifteen hundred engineers
in the Public Service Commission. You
can't 20 down in the street without
falling over them. We have subpnnaed
but three OF them
Mr.. Walker said i; would be calam-
i.y 20 take the work Of perintendins
the transit work from the fuDHc ser
vice Commission.
Senator Thompson mas another fight
on his hands. This time 1t is with
former stenogrspher, Miss Virginia
Valvs. Yesterday she was called TO
the stand after she refused TO give up
the records she took until her bill OF
almost $4,000 is paid. Senator 1homp-
son served her with a subpoena duces
;ecum commanding her 70 produce the
records TO-DAY. When she left the
stand both Miss Nalva and her COun-
sci. Meier Steinbrink, said they would
ignore the subpoena.
Senator Thompson said the reason be
refused 70 pay Miss Valva's bill was
that she charged 1883 for twenty
three DAYS reporting, a little less than
$50 a day. This. he said. WAS far too
high. Her bill for Sl,l04.S3, which size
charged for extending the record"