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GARDNER AGAIN
DECLARES NAVY
IS UNPREPARED
Says Daniels Fails to Meet
Assertions as to Real
Conditions.
FIGHTING SHIPS
BEHIND IN SPEED
Tells Taft Best Judges Believe
United States Navy Is Inade
quate for Defence.
Washington. April 30. A letter to i
ex-President Taft was made pv.h', c here
tc-day by Representative A. T. Gard?
ner, of Massachusetts. Il was written
by Mr. Gardner in reply to Secre'arr
Daniels's recent commun.cation to
rresident Gar: eld of w illiasaa College,
dealing with the preparedness of the
nary. In this letter Mr. Gardr.rr ??.
"If President Garfield of Win are.
was looking for an answer to my as
sertions ha was disappointed. In the
course of his very long letter the ,^.r
retary did not undertake to meet the.
assertions which I have made, although
he succc?sf:;'.;y met a good many as
eertions which 1 Bake asser?
tions, by the way. which no one out-,
side a lunatic asylum would be likely
to make.
"For instance, the Secretary tri- ,
umphantly asserts and overwhelmingly
proves that the American navy is
larger and more abundantly equipped ,
than ever before. Inasmuch as the
American navy has not been at wax for .
seventeen years, and ts the scrapheap
is almost unknown in our military Sys?
tem, it did not take two newspaper
columns to prove that our nary and its
equipment must continue to increase so
long as Congress continues to appro
pr ate for them.
"I assume that President Garfield,
like the rest of us, would have been
glad to be told how our navy compares
in size and strength with foreign
navies. 1 doubt very much whether
he takes a eoasubing interest in a com- |
psrison Vetween our navy as it is under
President Wilson and our navy as it
vil under President Taft, or even
under President Roosevelt yet that is
all tue comparison which was vouch?
safed m the Secretary''* letter.
"While he was about it, by the way.
don't you think that Mr. Daniels might
perhaps have put that comparison in a
little clearer light 1 You will observe,
that in all matters he compares the ?
navy under the first two years of Presi- j
dent Wilson's administration with the I
navy under the last two years of your
administration. Perhaps I ought not
to criticise a Cabinet officer, but to an i
ordinary mudlark Congressman like my- '
self it really seems as if the compari- ;
son might have been a little less mis
leading if the Secretary had pointed
out the fact that m the last two years
of your administration the pune
?trings were held by a Democratic
House of Representatives.
Inferiority Increasing.
"Perhaps President Garfield might
also have been interested to learn
whether or not our naval experts think
oar navy sufficient for our defence. ?
To the bverage sordid mind like my
own that really seems a more im- !
portant question than whether our
?resent deplorable condition is the !
fault of Mr. Meyer or Mr. Daniels, or i
the Archangel Gabriel. Yet I can find |
no word In the Secretary's letter which ;
reveals the fact that his official coun- !
cil of advisers, the General Board of
the navy, has solemnly warned him
that our lack of naval policy has placed i
us in a position of inferiority to for- ;
eign nations and that that inferiority ?
is continually on tlie increase.
"If President Garfield is like the rest I
of us he probably will be glad to learn
whether or not our fighting ships meet
modern conditions as to t-peed, whether
or not our ?;rcraft have kept pace with
the improvements in tie air fleets of
the rest of the world, and whether or
riot our mines, torpedoes and ammuni?
tion are sufficient in the judgment of
the ordnance officers of the navy. I
think you will agree with me that a
definite statement on these points will
be more profitable than a discussion as
to whether it is a Republican admin?
istration or a Democratic administra?
tion that is most for the fact
that we are so deplorably behind the
times. Yet, unless I am very much
mistaken, the Secretary says not one
word about the all-important question
?>f the speed, or rather lack of speed,
of our fighting ships. He tells us that
the situation as to mines and torpedoes
and ammur.'tion hus vastly improved,
which is. of course, the case; but he
denies us definite figures as likely to
betray important naval secrets.
"The question of our readiness for
war with an efficient enemy is worth
?liscussng ;.'. some length. The Secre?
tary's mere assertion that our ships
were in a position to make a brave
showing as insl the Mexican navy and
the soutti\ <?? . ?rind at Vera Cruz will
?and for one moment against the
positive \ ? . as to our unreadiness
for war o Commander Yar
nell and Admira! Fisse, chief of opera?
tions of the fleet.
"Some-of the particular assertions
Which I have heretofore made, and
which the Secretary entirely leaves un?
answered, are tl
"Relative strength of our navy: I
invite your attention to the fact that
on ?M July, 1914, before the
European war broke out, our navy had
??iiien to fourth place, according to
t?ur own official figures. At that time
the warship tonnage of Germany, built
and building, had grown to over 1,300,
000 tons, while ours was less than
900,000 tons. Meanwhile, the warship
tont age of Gre?t Hritain, built and
building, wai ton? larger than
that of Germany and the United States
combined, liven France was a little
ahead of us. Kven admitting that war?
ship tonnage is not an exact method of
measurement, our standing cannot be
much improved by anv other method.
"I assert that on July 1. 1914, Gr( .t
Britain had forty-six dreadnoughts and
dreadnought cruisers, built and build?
ing, wh le Gersaaajrs vessels of the
same description number?-?; twenty
eight and ours numbered only twelve.
Most of our battleships, unfortunately,
are eM-faahioned pre-dn-adnoughts.
Inadequate for Defence.
"Are we ?trong enough? It is the
epinion of those best able to judge
that our navy is totally inadequate for
?ur defence. As you know very well.
the General Boaril of the navy is to?
day, and always has been, composed
f the very best 'a\al officers in the
rrice I vf,' mice 11*03 the General
oard has declared that we must have
-eight battleships less, than twen
y y'eers old in order to make us ssfe
inst the navy of Germany or any
er usti?n ? xeept Great Britain. The
eneral Boar?i does not pretend that
forty-eight battleships would be suffi
ent to protect us against England's
irhty risvy. In addition, the General
tells us that we must have 1*.C
troyer?, an well a? other hhip? in
in proportions.
"Instead of forty-eight battleships
nd IM destroyers under twenty years
Id we lave at present, built and
ui'lding. onlv thirty sever, bsttleehips
nd euty-eie-ht destroyer*. It is true
that this year we have authorized the'
construction of two more battleships
and six more destroyers. It in sl?o
trae that in 1919, when these new ha.
tleships will be ready, the battleship
Iowa will have long passed the twen?\
year mark, and the battleships Kear
sarge. Kentucky ami Alabama will be
nineteen j ears old.
"Suhn*ir;ri \- ? ? -uhmnrines, Ad?
miral Vreoland teatiflee! thut we need
one hundred submarines for harbor de
fence alone. If you reckon the F 4.
which is at the bottom of the BOO, and
if you reckon all the submarines which
the ?crap heap and those which
ought to be in the scrap heap, and if
you reckon all the submarines which
are building, you will find that we have
just fifty -nine a sorry lot they are; >
many of them, at least. It is true that
Congres*? overruled Secretary Pamela's
recommendation this year and followed
the recommendation of the General
Board, so that instead of getting nine
new submarirea we shall have eigh
teen. I am afraid thnt I took an un
Satisfaction in our victory.
"Speaking of submarines and the |
readineas of the navy for wir, did you '
notice t ho evidence of Commander'
Sterling, chief of the Atlantic Mibma- :
rinc flotilla, before the Naval Commit- .
tee last December? It appeay that:
early ln*t November Admiral Fletcher !
ordered i ? i r.?l mobilisation of the
he rondcBTotaa was in '
Hampton Hoads. The newspapers !
one submarine out of i
Allnntic fleet could >
crewman Roberta, of the'
Naval Affair? ( osamittOO, refused to be
.. i rumpus until
ling wss summoned, i
- . i xplained the? fi\ I of
I'-marine? were ?* me Panama |
anal and m"*'.. not to be reckoned, <
??? *-?? ?? reoaenahle. He then
testtfv that for one reason I
or a- h of the rest of them
i mobilised and the ultimate '
?was described by Ccmmandor
Sterling In the following language: 'So
??rn ?TO there the admiral
wanted to know what we could do. I
told him we had then only one subma?
rine thnt I thought could efficiently
take part in the man?uvres at sea otT
the coast.'
Years to Get Ready to Fight.
"Is the nary ready to meet a real
enemy? One of the most significant
statement i which I have called again
and again to the attention of the powers
that be is Admiral Fiske's testimony
that It would take five years to get tho
United States navv into condition to
fight an efficient foreign foe. It vas
'ust like bluff old Fiske to blurt out
the uncompromising truth. I don't
think the gentlemen from the Navy
Department cared much for a state?
ment which fitted in so ill w,th the
sterilized testimony so fashionable at
the present time.
"At about the same time Assistant'
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt got,
out of step when he testified that it :
would take from three months to a year ?
t'> put into lighting trim the 101 vessels i
which Secretary Daniels so euphemisti?
cally describes as 'in reserve' or 'in
ordinary' or 'uncommissioned.' By the
way, we are to count on these 101 ships
in cace of war, or so Secretary Daniels
tolla President Garfield.
"If by any thance after reading
this communication, you still continue
to think that the navy is prepared !
fi>r war. I commend to you Admiral ,
Fletcher's letter, dated January 1-1,191.">.
It is addressed to the Committee on i
Naval Affairs of the House of Repre?
sentatives. In it the admiral asks
leave to correct some of his testimony.
He explnins that, much to his surprise,
h? has discovered 'an alarming short?
age' of officers and men in his own
fleet. It appears that in the twenty
one battleships under his command in?
vestiga'* n has discovered a shortage
of 5,219 men and 339 officers. Rather
an unpleasant discovery for an admiral
to make in the fleet under his com- j
mand, I should think. It mus' have '
been especially disconcerting, in view
of the pagans which had greeted him five
weeks earlier, when he had stated his
belief that in an emergency all of,
his vessels could be ready for war
within p. week.
"Speaking of Admiral Fletcher's fleet \
a^d its readiness for war, did you
notice on December 8 last in a cor
tain New York paper, nn account of the
attempted mobilization last November j
which Secretary Daniela speaks of as'
'valuable man?uvres' and 'strenuous
practice'? Admiral Fletcher's testi?
mony shows that only eleven of his
battleships fok part in those man?u?
vres, and the naval correspondent of
tl Bl Now York newspaper was so im
pndent as to write that only five of ?
ihe battleships turned up on time.
Four out of five of those battleships,
according 'o this saucy scribe, each hud
an admiral aboard, leaving only one
hip, tho Rhode Island, for the
lour admirals to boss around. Admiral
Fletcher takes issue with the corre?
spondent, but then it is fair to say
that the correspondent takes issue with
Admiral Fletcher.
'Way Behind in Speed.
"The astonishing ?lowneai of our
battleships have you bien able to
fathom the reason why Congress con?
tinues to refuse to build those fast
dreadnought-cruiser? which all the rest
of the world is building? Is it mere?
ly because a dreadnought-cruiser costs
more than a dreadnought?
"I know that you are well aware
of '! e fact that the modern dread
| nought-cruisers steam fully twenty
j eight or twenty-nine knots an hour.
1 You must have laughed at our pre
| posterou? self-congratulation the other
day when we launched the 21-knot
Peonsylvania rifrht under the eyes of
the Herman sailors, too. No one knows
bettor than the (??rmans the advantage
of speed. They have just had a gTeut
object lesson.
"A f( W Sundays ago the wor'd saw
what happened to the (ierman ship
Blflcher in the great North Sea battle.
There were nine big fighting ships in
; that engagement, live of them British
', and four of them (?erman. The Bl?cher
v?,i? vunk to the bottom of the sea
I because she could not keep up with
' her consort?. The fact is that she was
five knots an hour slower than any
other of the nine fighting ships in the
' battle. Yet, slow as she was, the Blflcher
was faster than the fastest big fighting
. ship in the United States navy, either
built or building. If jrou think I am
mistaken turn to pac '"?52 to K',4
United States Navy T< 'ook, 1914."
DENIES RIGGS 'SE
IS NATIONAL ISSUE
Treasurer Burke \V correct
Impression Tha linistra
tion Is Im It 'd.
(From Tr? Tntnjtui Hut tu ) I
Washington, April 30. An attempt
? to change the general impression that
the fight of the Secretary of the Treas
! ury and Controller of the Currency
j against the Riggs National Bank is
i backed by the administration, and that
many national banks are rallying to
I the aupport of the Biggs hank, was
I mad* to-day by Treasurer John Burke.
Is ridiculous," he said, "to talk
ab(. ?t banks rallying to the defence of
) the pltintiff, about the administration's
I part in the suit and about there being
a conflict as to whether Mr. Hrandeis
' was employed in the case at a certain
| hour."
Mr. Burke, however, shed no light
whatever on the point of veracity still
Ig between the Attorney (ieneral
and Controller Williams as to when Mr.
Brandeis was retained.
"What difference does it make
whether he was or was not employed,
or whether he rvcr- will be empie'.H?"
continuo! Mr. Burke. "Ihe case is now
In court, and will be decided not in ac?
cordance with public opinion, but in
accordance with law." i
Roosevelt Pins Hopes
On Printing Scandals
Continued fr?m pac* 1
made it will please leave the courtroom
at once."
After an instant's hesitation Charles
H. Duell, Jr., a former neighbor of Jus?
tice Andrews and a correspondent of
Governor Whitman, arose ami walked
out.
Mr. Dnell explained later that he had
no intention of starting any applause.
Intensely interested, he had clasped his
hands, he said, and one of them slipped
from his tense grip, smacking his knee
sharply.
Royal W. France, a member of the
Brooklyn Young Republican Club, re?
lated what he said were W.lliam
Rarnes's plans to abate the nuissnce of
direct primaries. In December, 1911,
Mr. Harnes told him, Mr. France sr.id,
that the double election meant too
much limelight, and be conld disgust
everybody with the notion by voting
"Democratic riffraff" at Republican pri?
maries, and vice versn.
More details of the direct primary
fight were told by Harvey D. Hlnrnan,
Josish T. N'ewcomh anil Henry C. Mc?
Millan, a Mew York reporter.
Another job that Colonel Roosevelt's
attorneys undertook to-day was to
prove ?"^nr'es F. Murphy "dominant"
in the Democratic organization. To
that end they called Roscoe Irwin. Col?
lector of Internal Revenas at Albany
and a good Democrat.
Mr Irwin testified that he was in?
terested in some appointments to be
made by Governor Dix Bnd went to see
Mr. Murphy, as leader of the party.
At the close of the interview Mr. Irwin
had not the slightest idea whether Mr.
Murphy approved of his suggestions or
not, but he recalled that Covornor Dix
subsequently appointed the men whose
names Mr Irwin had mentioned to Mr.
Murphy.
MRS SAYS BARNES
WAS "OFFICE BOY"
Declares That Was Plaintiff's
Real Standing in State
Committee in 1903.
[Fr**n t R?4?T rorrrorxiT'lmt ?V The Trlr-un? ]
Syracuse. N. Y., April SO. William
Parn?s was virtually an "office boy" in
the Republican State Committee when
H. H. Vreelnnd, in 1P03, sent a cam?
paign contribution of $20,000 on behalf
of the Metropolitan Securities Com?
pany, of which he was president, ac?
cording to the statement made by Will?
iam M. Ivina, counsel for Mr. Barnes,
n objecting to the introduction of this
evidence for Colonel Roosevelt at the
trial of the libel suit here to-day. Mr.
vreeland said the money had been sent
through Lemuel E. Quigg, who was em?
ployed by the company at the time.
"Did you make a contribution to
Charles F. Murphy that year?" asked
Wi liam H. Van Benschoten, for the
Colonel, in an attempt to bring out the
defence's contention that big business
contributed equally to campaign fonds
of both parties with the idea of getting
protection, but the court did not per?
mit the question to be answered.
Mr. Vreeland acknowledged that con?
tributions had been made to Repub?
lican funds in other years, but he did
not know who transmitted them.
In arguing for the admission of the
evidence counsel for the defence said
they wanted to show th general rela?
tion of crooked business and crooked
politics. They pleaded that Colonel
Roosevelt had testified that both Sen?
ator Platt and Mr. Barnes had stated
in the.r opposition to the franchise
tax bin that corporations contributed
to both p.-.rtieu.
Mr. Baines did not like the effort to
hook him up with the Metropolitan
contribution in 1303 because of the
fact that he was chairman of the ex?
ecutive committee of the state com?
mittee. He leaned over and talked
earnestly with Mr. Ivins, and when the
court asked for more information as to
just what Mr. Barnes's position in the
organization was at the time counsel
, said:
"He telh me he was virtually an
I office boy, i?<vkio.g after the correspond?
ence and doing the best he could to
meet the newspapers that wanted ad
i vertisements."
When the judge smiled Mr. Ivins
added: "Mr. Barnes, like everybody
else, is older than he was, and he has
; grown."
Never Met Barnes.
On his cross-examination Mr. Ivins
asked Mr. Yreeland, "Did you ever give
any money directly or indirectly to Mr.
Barnes?"
"I don't know him," said the witnecs.
"1 never met him in my life."
When the court asked Mr. Van Ben
! schoten whether counsel intended to
' try to ?how that the money was con
. tributed to both parties under an
. agreement that they would get pro?
tection and to show that Mr. Barnes
1 had knowledge of it, the lawyer re
! plied:
"We don't intend to offer any sf
1 firmative proof at this time that Mr.
Barnes had knowledge of it. Agree?
ments of that kind are not likely to be
put in black and white. When you find
contribuions to both parties there is
a fair inference to be drawn."
That he would vote the "riffraff" in
i the Democratic party in Albany at the
Republican primaries, and vice versa,
to show what a joke direct primaries
? were, was what Mr. Barnes said to
Roya! W. France, according to the lat
! ter's testimony under oath.
Mr. France, who is a lawyer, living
in Port Washington, said he had a
conference with the Republican state
'chairman in December, 1311. He was
chairman of the committee on state
nolitics of the Brooklyn Young Re?
publican Club.
"Mr. Barnes told me." Mr. France
testified, "that our attitude was all
wrong; that the Hinman-Greene bill,
w-hich we had backed, wis bad; that it
i exposed the candidates to too much
I publicity, and that it made a double
I campaign for office. lie said he could
? ruin the reputation of any man if he
threw enough limelight on it. He said
] he could get the riffraff of the Demo
i crr.ts in Albany to vote in the Repuh
! lican primaries and would vote the Re?
publican riffraff in the Democratic pri?
maries, and they would nominate such
rotten candi?lates as to disgust the
\oters with the entire proposition. He
said the system of direct primaries
was subversive of party organization,
which was necessary to maintain our
institutions."
Printing Contracts Fp.
Testimony ss to printing contrscts
for the state and the city and county
of Albany was not stsrted until after
s long argument on the psrt of counsel
as to its admissibilit? For nearb- an
hour Michael V. Dolan. director of1 the
Argus Printing Company, in Albany,
carefully cooled his heels arid balanced
his glasses on his right ear on the wit?
ness stand. The jury had better luck.
Justice Andrews let them leave the
ro.,m while ?he legal quibbles were be?
ing thrashed out.
"The question to be settled," ssid
John J. Adams, the libel expert wl
gainst the introduction of tl
printing evidence, 'is the true m^ai
irnr of tho libel. It has already bef
construed by the defendant, his conns
and by the court. All agree with tl
vi"w we now urge. When Mr. Bowel
made his motion to dismiss the con
plaint he said 'there is not even
charge that Mr. Murphy particip?t?
in or profited in any way nut of rotte
politics government, and there is n?
the slightest suggestion that M
Barnes had any part therein.'"
Mr. Adams read the record of tl
Colonel's testimony, in which, when r
was a*!ked "Did you intend in yoi
article to make any charge against M
Barnes*" he replied: "No. I simpl
meant that rotten politics was typifl?
by Mr. Murphy and Mr. Harnes.'
As the court had ruled out all refei
ence to moral conditions in Alhan'
Mr. Adams argued that he should o
the same with the printing matter.
"The difficulty with it all." snid Jui
tice Andrews, after be had heard bot
sides, "is that you both take a to
technical view of it. I know man
Courts, even the higher courts, wher
such a view has been taken, but n \ >
have they gone as far as you do o
your various sides. I think the ev
dence should be allowed."
"Journal'' Without a Job Plant.
The jury came back, and John T*
Bowers, chief counsel for the Col no
started to open up on the printing sh
uation. Mr. Dolan, who carefull
weighed every word, said the Argu
Company had had contracts fir legi?
l..tive printing since 18R9. In recen
years there bad been a division of th
business. OMier establishments that i
the last fifteen years had been dotn
more or less of th? ?fate priming wer
the J. B. Lyon Company and the Bran
dow Company.
Bringing up the Journal Company
the Barnes corporation, which has ha
contracts for public work. Mr. Bower
asked: "Du you ever know that 'Th
Journal' had a job plant?"
"I never did," Dolan answered.
When the Journal Company turne
the work over to the Argus Compan
it wae done through John Lind-.ay, th
manager of the latter concern, the wit
ness testified.
Mr. Dolan said he had known th
plaintiff since he was a young man, bu
never did any business with him.
Witness said his company had th<
contract for the legislative printing ii
1908 and 1913. The work was of sucl
a nature that they could keep the typi
standing and sometimes the composi
tion was used six or eight times.
"Do you bid the actual cost of ever}
item ?" Mr. Bowers asked.
"Must I answer that?" asked Mr
Dolan, turning to the judge. "It is no'
fair to ask me to reveal our secrets
There are lots of printers around here
I bid sometimes to win and sometlmei
to lose. I have bid one cent for com
position that would cost me 60 cents.'
"It's a question of unbalance!
bids?"
"Yes."
Mr. Ivins objected and forced th<
line of testimony to stop by sayinf
there was a statute somewhere thai
prohibited unbalanced bidding.
Paid Journal Company Commissions
His concern had the contract fot
printing the minutes of the Common
Council of Albany in the years 1909
'14, the witness said, and reprinted re?
ports of departments that were a part
of the minutes and kept the tvp?
for it. Order? for this extra work
were not given to the Argus Company,
but went to it through the Journal
Companv.
Mr. Dolan said he solicited this busi?
ness by offering to give the Jour-"l
Company 15 per cent of what they gut
out of their contract for printing the
minutes and from 20 to 25 per cent or
all extra reports printed through or?
ders to the Journal Company. Afte.*
1911 the extra reports were included
in the general contract for the min?
utes.
"That was after the Bayne Investi'
' gation," Mr. Dolan explained, with a
grin.
"Do you know how much the Jour
I r.al Company gets for these reports,
J which bear the imprint of that con
I corn?" Mr. Bowers asked, and when
j Mr. Dolan answered "No" the lawyei
! shot back:
"You say you gave them a commis
; sion. How did you know how much
j you were to get out of it if they billed
: it and you did not know what their bill
j was?"
It looked as if counsel had the wit?
ness stumped, but he came buck with
an explanation that it was done in the
form of a discount, and that they had
business relations all the time by
which they were constantly striking
balances between the credits of the
two concerns.
Just before court closed Mr. Bowers
put in evidence a check for $103.56,
i which was made out to Mr. Dolan by
Kdward Murphy for the Argus Com?
panv. It was indorsed: "Pay Journal
Companv, II. V. Dolan."
Direct Primary Combination.
Fx-Sonator Frederick M. Davenport,
Progressive nominee for Governor in
1912, was asked to tell about the way
; the combination of Republicans and
i Democrats killed the Ilinman-Greene
?direct primary bill, which Governor
Il lignes wanted in 1910, and passed
the Mead-Phillips bill against his
i wishes and which he vetoed. The de?
fence has set up that this bill was
' passed by a combination of Repub?
licans and Democrats under the lead?
ership of Mr. Barnes and Senator
i Grady. Mr. Davenport was a member
! of the Senate at the time, and on the
day the bill was passed, he said, he saw
Mr. Barnes with several machine Re?
publicans in the Senate clerk's room.
Senator Grady had his men in the
! Judiciary Committee room. A recess
i had been declared.
Speaking of the special session of
I the Legislature in June, called to try
to put through the Cohb direct primary
| bill, which was a compromise, the wit
1 ness said that the next day after the
, night there was a debate over adjourn
i ment sine die he saw Mr. Barnes lean
' ing against the wall in the lobby where
J he could hear a colloquy between him
I self and Senator Grattan.
"My recollection is," Mr. Davenport
; declared, "that Senator Grattan, who was
I from Albany, was deriding Governor
' Hughes and the other leaders for try?
ing to force direct primary legislation.
I recall saying, 'You are speaking as
the mouthpiece of a political Nero, who
t ddles just outside this chamber while
Rome burns.' "
The Senator said that either that
night or the next day he had met
' Barnes just outside the Senate cham?
ber, and the leader had said to him:
j "Senator, I'm still here in spite o? all
you had to soy."
Mr. Davenport told Mr. Ivins on
j cross-examination that he had never
' consulted Mr. Barnes about political
; matters after he had become chairman
of the state committee. It was true
i they were both membtrs of the Cnion
' League Club in New York and might
have had casual conversations there.
Newcomb Accused Grattan.
Josiah T. Newcomb, who was in the
Senate from 1909 to 1913. recalled the
night of June 80. 1910, when there was
a debate over the motion of Senator
Grattan to concur in the resolution of
i the Assembly for adjournment sine die.
"I had a debate with Senator Grat
! ten," Mr. Newcomb testified. "I made
'the charge that a bi-partisan combina?
tion had been formed to defeat pri?
mary legihlation b> a motion to ad?
journ. I turned to Senator Grady and
charged him with entering into the
combination and charged the same
thing against Grattan. The latter re
plied: 'It's sil right; we admit it, but
you're only sore because we out it
?cross on you.'"
"Didn't you go to see Mr. Barnes as
chairman of the state comm'ttee in
1911 -' asked Mr Ivins.
"Oh. I saw him lots of time?."
"Weren't you a caniliilate for chair?
man of the Republican County Com?
mittee in New York in 1311?"
"I was voted for, but 1 was not a
eandulate."
Hoscos Irwin. Democratic wder of i
Kingston, who was appointed a Col?
lector of Internal Revenue hist 'all, '
was put on the stand by trm di
In an ?ttempt to show tha* Charles
F. Murphy was a boss and ?hat Gov
ernor John A. Dix was simply his pup?
pet, as Colonel Roosevelt set up.
Saw Murphy for Appointments.
Mr. Irwin said he saw Mr. Murphy
in 1910 about some state appointments
he wanted made by the Governor. He
did not see Governor Mix. but the ap?
pointments he asked for were mado af?
ter his visit to Murphy.
Ex-Senator Harvey D. Hintnan t<>ld
of Republican and Democratic combi?
nations in the fight over the United
States f*%jatorship in 1911; in the
fight over the primary legislation in
1910, and in the election of Jotham P.
Allds as president pro tern, of the Sen?
ate.
"You were in the Senate eight
years," Mr. Ivins shot at Hinman in
cross-examination. "Hid you not frc
qoently vote with the Democrats?"
"That is correct," witness snswered.
"Did you look upon that ax an evi?
dence of corruption on your part?"
"No."
It did not take long to put the lid
on John A. Hc-nnessy. He was prepared
to tell about corruption in Albany as
discovered when he was executive
auditor under Governor Baiter,
Mr. Van Benschoten read a s'ipula
tion which he had tried to get the
plaintiff's counsel to enter into that
there was corruption in Albany during
the four years of Democratic rile. It
did not suit Mr. Ivins because it spoke
of Mr. Barnes aiding Mr. Murphy
whenever necessary.
"The bait was loaded with honey,
but I have to hold them to the;r prom?
ise to bring proof of that," said Mr.
Ivins. "I don't care for honey. I
want proof."
Finally Mr. Ivins admitted a state?
ment of allegations of corruption
quoted from the last Republican state
platform, and after Mr. Hennessy had
testified that he had had conversations
with the defendant prior to July he
was excused. Mr. Ivins said he might
want to use Hennessy as a witness for
the plaintiff.
WHITMAN STANDS
BY DUELL LETTER
Governor Says It Expressed His
Sentiments When Written
Last Year and Now.
Albany, April 30. Governor Whit?
man declared to-day that the letter
written by him to Charles H, Duell, jr.,
and introduced at the Barnes-Roosevelt
libel trial was given out by him lut
July.
"That letter expressed my sentiments
then," said the Governor, "and I would
write the same now."
While the Governor declined to dis?
cuss the possibility of his going to
Syracuse, it was declared that he had
received neither a subp?na nor a tele?
gram from Mr. Ivins or any one elso
asking him to testify.
By law the Governor does not have
to respect a subp?na.
WOMEN ELUDE
POSSE TWO DAYS
Caught by Police After 48
Hour Run Through
Swamps and Woods.
IBr T>lf|rt0h to Iks Tribuns. 1
Bridgeport. Conn.. April 30. Fluding
pursuers in automobiles equipped with .
searchlights in a chase that led across ?
swamps Bnd through woods for miles, I
Mrs. Matthew Winslow, of Torrington.l
Conn.; Mrs. Alice Kilcoyne, of Brook?
lyn, and Mildred Doyle, of New York,
commmi'.ted to the New York State
reformatory at Bedford Hills, were
Anally picked up to-day by the police of
thi? city.
When found they were trying to get ?
clothes to take the place of the striped
uniform of the institution. One wore a
man's coat, which she said had been
giv?*n her in this city.
"I would rather do ten years in ft
I Connecticut prison than spend three,
years at the Bedford Reformatory,"!
i said the Winslow woman.
The women made their escape several '
nights ago. Posses with se-irchlights
set out after them and they took to the
woods. They finally reached the Con?
necticut line and managed to throw off
' their pursuers, but they were dressed
I in tho reformatory garb and did not
dare go near the highway. One of them
' managed to secure enough clothing to
appear on the road and beg food for
; the others.
Several times during their flight they
! were nearly captured, and only escaped
detection by lying flat in marshes and
hollows until their pursuers had
passed. After getting ordinary cloth?
ing, they said, one was dressed in such
a short skirt that she was bound to at
1 tract attention. When any one ap
: proached, they said, they started talk?
ing "gibberish," so as to be taken for
foreigners. They reached Stamford
Tuesday night, got enough money to
pay their carfare to Bridgeport and ar?
rived here Wednesday.
Mrs. Winslow told the police she es?
caped from another Institution some
time ago by sliding down a rope from a
window on tho fourth story. The fric
| tion burned her hands to the bone, she
said. She was captured after a short
chase.
Miss Moore, superintendent of the
institution, was told of their an-est*''
here. She asked to be allowed to speak
to the women and they were called to
the telephone in Superintendent Bir?
mingham's office. Mrs. Kilcoyne did the
talking, and when Miss Moore asked
her if she would agree to return with?
out extradition she turned to the others
and said:
"She's asked us if we will return. I
would rather do a bit here than go
back, and if you stick with me we will
all soon be out."
Miss Moore insisted upon asking
each of the women individually, and
each in turn refused to go back; but
after talking with one of the women
attach?s of the reformatory who came
here in an automobile the three agreed
to go back with her without legal
formality.
Miss Moore said last evening that
tho women had been given the privi?
leges of trusties and were allowed the
frei lorn of the grounds. They escaped
at night, and it is thought that work?
men employed in the erection of new
buildings near by helped them get
away. The police are now investigat?
ing on this theory.
GREENHUT SALARIES CUT
Receivers Do Business of
$802,508 in Twenty Days.
,1'idl ? Walter <. Noyes end William
A. Marola, receivers of the J. B. Green
hut Company, Bled their Brat report
yesterdn) In II Ihey place the nominal
n?-rts of the company at IH.1T
and liabilities, exclttaiva of
112,709,864. Ths s-Hf.-rnent of a<?er*
places the value of the realty at th?
figures SSed when Sixth Avenue was
in its heyday as a retail section, and
the good will of the concern at $2,
858.000.
In the twenty days the store has
been in the hands of receivers it has
done a business of ?H02.508, compared
with $761,621 in the corresponding
week of 1914 Salaries, mainly those
of members of the Grcenhut family
and conntftions, have been reduced
1200,000 a year.
Rockefeller Gets Two Lakes.
J. D. Rockefeller has added 105 acres
to his *),ono-acre estate by acquiring
the John Webber property af Tarry
town Heights. Mr. Rockefeller owns
the watershed on the north of the
Tarrytown lakes, nnd by purchasing
?he Webber land he owns the south
side, s-i that two lakes are practically
part oi his estate and add to its beauty.
H ; plans for the property have not
been disclosed. I* contains valuable
'imh?>r nnd immense quarries, and the
price paid Is said to have been mors
than $100,000. Mr. Rockefeller talked
- very foot of the land befo-e clos?
ing the deal. ^^^^^
MUSIC CALMS CRAZED GIRL
Policeman Plays Mendelssohn
Until Surgeons Arrive.
Mary Lumb went suddenly In?
sane last evening when ?he eaugh'.
sight of her photograph hanging over
the piano in the home of her aunt, Mr?
Anton Ko.lciki. at 87? East 143d Street
Stopping abruptly In the midle o' a
song she was plsying, the girl threw
a heavy book at the picture, sending
splintered glsss in all direction?.
Patrolman Spies ws? summoned.
When he returned the girl jumped st
him. scratching him and pulling his
lipir. Suddenly siie stopped and
pointed at the piano stool. The officer
vn and started playing Mendels?
sohn's "Spring Song."
The girl was quiet as long as Spies
played, but would not let him lesve to
call an ambulance. He finally suc?
ceeded in sending Mrs JGosieiki's young
son for help.
An ambulance snrgson from Lincoln
Hospital could not quiet the girl and
Dr. Kerf? came from Bellevue. The
combined efforts of the patrolman, the
doctors and the family finally got the
crl to the ambulance.
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whatever to the
actual makers?
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some of the most famous
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to-day, ?as it has
for over 30 years,
that Messrs. Kra?
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personally super?
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