The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-20
UNTERMYER LINKS
CITY OFFICIALS IN
LIMESTONE GRAFT
Explains How Contractors
Who Plead Guilty Will EX-
pose Men Higher Up.
PROBERS UNANIMOUS
Counsel Says Kaplan, Only
Discordant Note, Is Out
OF Office i'll II Days.
TAMMANY AIDS INTRIGUE
Calder COnfers With Lockwood
on Early Expansion of
Housing Inquiry.
AIDS INTRIGUE

CONCESSIONS MADE Dy the convicted
limestone contractors, who admitted
their guilt in General Sessions Friday,
connect the Hettrick limestone ring
with the city administration and show
who the men higher up were in the
building grating.
This was charged yesterday by Sam
uel Cntermyer, counsel for the Lock
wood committee, as being the main
spring moving those who he stated are
trying to disrupt the committee. Mr..
Untermyer issued a statement answer
ing Senator kaplan's attacks on the
committee and it's counsel. The as
saults are credited with having the
strong backing Of Tammany as well
as those interests most closely allied
with the city administration.
AS a result OF the controversy which
developed in the committee last Friday.
when Kaplan insisted the committee
should demand that Jail sentences be
imposed instead of fines OH the con-
vcted limestone contractors, Mr.. Tn
termyer went much further yesterday
than he otherwise would have gone in
making known the reasons for the
cases.
The fact that some of the contractors
are said to have supplied the crime pros
ecutors with evidence linking the graft
ing 10 certain officials is said by Mr..
Untermyer TO have struck terror in po-
litical quarters and led to the backfre
OF intrigue
seek More Guilty Culprits.
Since the committee Arst struck n
trail leading from the Hettrick ring to
the city administration. Senator Kaplan
has been trying 10 make trouble FOR the
committee by injecting politics. Mr.. Tn
terInyer charged. He asserted that the
milk in the cocoanut' is the fact that
the men higher up used the convicted
limestone contractors and Hettrick as
mere catspaws and that the evidence
the committee now has is expected to
aid in reaching the more guilty cul-
prits.
Mr.. Untermyer will continue to head
the investigation and the committee will
proceed on the road it has been travel
ling. That was decided finally yester-
day. The storm appeared to have
passed. Every member Of the commit
tee. including Republicans and Demo
Gratis. and all OF the associate counsel
sent word to either Senator Lockwood
or Mr.. JIntermyer giving unreserved in
. no nd
Offering fun support to the chairman
and chief counsel. kaplan Is left alone.
The committee decided to pay no further
attention TO his attacks. Hearings Will
be resumed tomorrow. The investiga-
tion Of trade combinations and collusive
bidding will be finished this week.
William NJ Calder. United States Sem
ator conferred with Senator Lockwood
concerning the programme of giving
Federal aid TO the state investigators.
No conclusions were announced. but II
Il expected the Federal committee win
begin its inquiry soon into general
housing conditions throughout the coun-
try and viii ask Mr.. Untermyer and the
state committee 20 cooperate.
Int.rmycr Explains situation.
Ale rntermyer's statement concern
irn ana explaining the row In the Lock-
wood committee follows;
Anxious a. I am TO adhere TO my
e,.t policv of refusing 90 be drawn into
-ontrovsrsiea affecting the work OF the
.omr,lttec and 90 avoid newspaper state
i,..rts and interviews. tho future use
faincss 81 The inquiry seems 70 demand
an answer from me 90 this latest Of
Senator's Kaplan's attempts 10 obscure
,be Important results achieved by the
committee. 20 impair public confidence
Ira fs work ana to lend aid and comfort
20 the many hlE aud little grafters.
trusts combinations and law breakers
whose operations the committee T. en-
eased n exposing.
Tne sxrlauation made by counsel he-
fars fudUc MeANuy or tho reasons .'nr
.r.ommendiuE the Imposition ~ zines
o1 tbr defendants pleas ~ guilty lmost
80 tA.m were corporations. nrd Ba strA
aer. uallc ong tn nres IN any EVENT.
arI thc action taken hy Judge NrAr0y
in th. oxercisc % tha judicial discretion
tha. ls vested ln him and iu him alone.
gallery play az Senator kauian whose
connection with me cornmltiso win for.
tuataiy expire within the nsxt eleven
days The sincerity ~ his OF repeated
published pryfestntioua 81 % what he
calls usy 'vInderfui work aud his en-
prossloua of confidence IN counsel q 'n-
consistent with the attacks De has been
making
"t cxnla lnrd o. Judge NcAvne fnat
white this particular charge s m.a-
demennor punishable at most hy Nrt
against the corporations aud hf nDi rx-
ceeding one year nH Go Individual ts
expected. with the nid ~ ths men who
were pleading guilty and ~ ths daru-
mcnts that with their consent We were
thus being permitted % use AMI retain.
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