The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1917, Page 10

10 THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1917. MAYORS AGAN UNDER IRE IN NEW YORK SENATE (Continued from First Page.) Oe ee eR Re EMR OER EE es by Senator Brown on that date Wotherspoon of the both parties that no delay would re- salt to the Government in completing ot the forts at Rockaway because Senate action, and in which he tn- gisted upon substituting his The record showed that Senator Wagner had congratulated the ma- jority on its action and said that it was a conclusion the minority had long ago reached. DID NOT KNOW OF IT WHEN HE ATTACKED, “Did you have any knowledge of this record?” asked Mr. The Mayor sparred “Answer yes, or no,” demanded Mr, Untermyer. “I had no knowledge of it at the time of my statement. Afterward yen. Judge Hughes objected to the line of examination as irrelevant. Mr, Untermyer said that the ques. tions were designed to show malice on the part of the Mayor. The President allowed the question. Untermyer, in| which Senator Brown said that Gen, Inited States Army had stated to the caucuses of con. | demnation bill for the Mayor's bills. "Then I ask again if you knew,” said Mr. Untermyer, “that the najor- ity and minority on Mareh 23 had de- termined that It was the part of wis- dom to take the property by con- demnation and not under the option?” “I learned that soveral days thore- after,” said the Mayor, after another round of fighting, in which Mr. Un- termyer insisted upon direct answers to his questions. “Even if you had known the toxt of that Senate proceoding you would still have given out that statement?” “I would.” “And you would have stuck to it?” “Just as I do now.” “You don't regurd your statement As An attack on Senator Wagner?” “I regard it as a statement of fact.” newer yes or no.” “I did not regard it as an upon Senator Wagner. to accept it as such” DIDN'T MEAN TO ATTACK WAG- NER'S HONOR, President Schoeneck broke in to call the examination back to regular lines. “You did not regard this as an at- tack upon the integrity and honor of Senator Wagner?” said Mr, Unter- myer. “No. I did not regard it that way “Do you regard it so now?” “I think I do." “When did you begin to regard it as an attack upon Senator Wagner? “When he aovepted It as such,” re plied the Mayor, and the galleries tit- tered audibly, When Mr. Untermyer by newspaper h attack If you choose had shown dijnes that the press ment as a charie tion, must May we tell you why night. 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Write today for an instructive book- let on Nujol and its uses. in answer to the question as to what you thought of t Wagner state- ment?” “Didnt t i tt at. imply that you read b3 edoeagan “Did you mean it as @ reflection of his loyalty?” did not, APPLIED TO PERSONS BLOCK- ING THE PROCEEDING, “Ten’t It @ fact that you wished to against the loyalty of Mr. Wagner, the Mayor was asked if he had taken any steps to correct the impression, “1 did," paid the Mayor. Judge Hughes and Mr, Untermyer collided in @ fight over the examina- tion of the Mayor on newspaper pub- Heations, Mr. Hughes did not want Mr. Untermyer to read newspaper ex- tracts to the Mayor and then ask him if he had seen them. He eatd that ho offered the statements to|neation that Bae Worn wae fons show how the papers regarded the| in Prussia?” statement and prove malice on the in any particular connection.” part of the Mayor. wa tatened fact that his zeterence Mr. Untermyer produced Governor| mark?” ee ae Whitman's published interview ex- onerating Senator Wagner and Judge “It waa your intention really to Hughes objected to reading any at repeat your oharge by referring to ment from @ public man from any a » ‘the gentleman = from newspaper, In the melee over the papers Mr. Untermyer handed over a clipping from the New York American. “| never read that paper,” eaid the | ing the proceedings in the Senate,’ Mayor, shoving ack the olipping| “You knew that there wa: with ® contemptuous gesture. jPubiiong majority tn the Genater HAD NOT READ THE REPLY OF| "Did you understand that it would WAGNER. |be possible for one Senator to ob- struct a Senate procesding?” Mr. Mitchel sald that he had not| “I learned it from the Sonate rec- read Mr. Wagner's reply to his inter- | 04." coolly retorted the Mayor. view when he said that "I oom to|GETTING AT THE REVIVED have touched the gentleman from WALKER BILL, Prussia on a tender spot.” The Mayor dented that he or any }one in his office, had asked for an Mr. Untermyer offered clippings from The World and Times in evi- “No; I repeated the charge other- wise. “What do you mean by that?” "T t my charge to who were block- lemergency measure for the passage of the Rockaway bill, He said some dence, President Schoeneck ruled | one ph of Dock Commissioner's of- “ A ico might have asked for it, The that th coul it tee cheand nok wet under the! Mayor admitted that tho original city evidence circus tent unless it be bi! was the ancient Walker bill minus shown that the Mayor had read all of the provision for selling lands under the articles, water in Manhattan, Q: Did you give any instructions as to the preparation of the bill? A. Yes, Q. Did you direct the drawing of two bills or one? A. One, Q. Which one? A. The bill provid- ing for the ceding of the lands to the Government. Mr. Untermyer was cutting into Judge Hughes hotly combated the idea that the Mayor had any obliga- tion to read the newspapers and try to correct the impressions that the press had of his acts and utterances “That the Governor and distin. guished members of the Senate had ments were rend "by. the. Mayor he Le Walker bill got its new start in ad an opport © retrac your wine" kakek the President bask Q. You knew that this negotiation | “L produce these papers purely as|i"¥olved the turning over of lands showlig. malice’. sat Me tet! | to private owners. A. That is false. myer | ‘The Mayor said that he did not Again the Hughes lance wag shat-/Ofer the Walker bill because he tered against the Wa an shield, | thought the city already had the and the President admitted the svi. Power to transfer the lands under dence water and that he did not regard the | Mr. Untermyer then read Gov. Whit-| Second bill at the time, as essential man’s published statement to the! Mr. Untermyer read from the char- Mayor. The Mayor admitted that he | ter of the city to show that the lands had been informed substantially of under water were om the contents of the Intervew with tne organic law “Inalic The Governor. He also had the aamo in-|Mayor admitted that he had at the formation as to Senator Brown's vin- | tie overlooked the charter provision dication of Wagner | Referring to the Walker bill and its THE REFERENCE TO “THE GEN. | present successor, Mr. Untermyer TLEMAN FROM PRUSSIA.” sked if the bill was not a vicious “What did you mean when you re-|O% ferred to Mr, Wagner as ‘The gentle- was not,” said the Mayor. man from Prussia Judge Hughes objected that the T had. not acen the atatements|@uestion before the Senate did not supporting ‘Senator Wagner at thar| felate to the Walker bill, but to the time.” later bill offered by Mr. Mills. Mr. Untermyer insisted that the Walker pill was a very material issue in the ntroversy, SHOWING WHEREIN WAGNER you know In what connection! ay, 1; WAS AUCTINIES, you mado the statement. ‘I seemed |. Mr. Untermyer said that the ex- to have touched the gentleman from |®Mination was material in showing Prussia on a tender spot? Was it | how well justified Mr. Wagner and | his associates were in suspecting this and similar legislation, President Schoeneck took off the “Are you able to say that you did not read Senator Wagner's answer to| your attack?” | “I did not:road It on the day it was mad Legislature In 1916 when the purpose of that bill became known, A. 1 don’t think that the purposes have ever been made known Q. The bill in 1916 was denounced asa grab and its own author repudi- ated the father of it? A. I belleve it to be true, Q. And the new bill that came up hero this year was the old Walker bill with Manhattan and the Bronx left out? Was it introduced at your order? A. It was not, Do you know by whose order it Was introduced? A. By order of Dock Commissioner R. A. C, Smith, Q. Did he consult with you before ordering It, A. He did not, Q. Is it customary for the mem. bers of the Administration to do such things without consulting you? A. It tn not. The Mayor and the lawyer got_on thoir toes In a heated passage, Mr. Untermyer asked about the contents of one of the bills. 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Q. There was an outcry in the, To remove the hairs, | Untermyer in his biandest style. The President's gravel and voice tilled the fuse, The Mayor sarcast!- cally professed total ignorance of conatitutuency Senator Bur- | Mngame represented, thoreby in voice | and manner slipping one over to the expression of his opinion of the Tall Sycamore of the Gowanus Canal. Mr. Untermyer asked the Mayor If, in the face of hig order to Dock Com- missioner 8m to withdraw the Walker bill ® request was subse- quently made to the Governor for emergency menaage to ald its pass- age. The Mayor said that true. “For which,” he added, “somebody | owes the Governor an apology.” “Strike that out,” ordered the President. Judge Hughes shot over a new ob- 'Jeetion to the Untermyer attampt to | find out why the Mayor had not made | any investigation to discover why the Walker bill was still being dis-| cussed in the Senate four days after | ithe Mayor said he had ordered it killed. ‘The President again spiked the Hughes’ objection and the Mayor ald: PUTS THE BURDEN ON THE BACK OF SMITH. “I took steps immediately to have the substitute Imited bill prepared and sent to Albany. I did not ask the Dock Commissioner why the new Dill had not been sent up. He said he had not carried out my Instruc- tions.” Q. You don't charge Senator Wag- ner with this delay, do you? A. I do not Q. You do think they should have passed a biN that would have given the right to allenate all of the lands under water in Kings and Queens Boroughs? A. Yes, Through this answer the Mayor for the first time went on record as | favoring the 1917 vintage of the Walker pill, The Mayor was asked if he had said to Samuel M. Williams of The | Evening World that ‘the alienation of consciousness on the part of a) few damned fools at Albany had killed the Jamaica Bay improve- ments.” | “Leaving out ‘at Albany,’ T did. The purpose of the Walker bill was to permit the exchang? of certain lands with upland owners for the purpose of permitting the Jamaica Bay improvements.” He said that he explained to Sen- ator Wagner on Fob, 17 that he did not mean to reflect on the Legisia- ture by referring to “damned fools | at Albany.” A recess was taken at this point SENATOR MILLS HAS POOR LUCK AS PEACE MAKER. “Are you trying to make peace be- | tween the warring factions" Senator | Ogden L, Mills was asked at the opening of the afternoon session. “[ have been about as successful as the Swiss Minister was in his effort to end the European war a month | resumed his place on the stand, with Mr. Untermyer again | cross-examining. Mr. Untermyer proceeded to show that Senators Burlingame, Lawson, ‘Thompson and other insurgents of the |Republican faith had been chief {among those who donned war paint and went after the Mayor's Rockaway bills. A dozen questions drew the {admission from the Mayor that the Republicans had shown violent oppo- sition, to say nothing of Senators Walker, Foley et all on the Demo- cratic side. | President Schoeneck choked off the long drawn out questioning as to the attitude of the Senators and held the inquiry down to this question: “Is It not a fact that Senator Wag- jner had not taken part In the debato until near its close?” The record showed fifty-four type- written pages before Wagner went after the away bills While the Senate was hammering away at the Mitchel hearing As- semblyman Shiplacoff introduced a hill repealing the section of the legis- lative law under which the contempt hearing is held. His purpose was to nrevent future citations of the same kind, PRS ES | MELVILLE ELLIS DEAD. | Composer d Destener In a Victim | of Vyphold Feve: Melville Ellis, pianist, composer and (designer of stage gowns and effects ldled at 10:30 o'clock to-day In New York Hospital of typhotd fever, He | was taken fll two weeks ago but con- \tinued his work in vaudeville with |Irene Bordini until last Friday when | his doctor ordered him to the hospital. | Ellis was about forty years old, He | first came to the notice of New York through the costumes he designed for ‘chorus girls in t Shubert compantes. big factor lin the reanizations, taking practical charge of some of their bix productions, From tha Shuberts_ he went, about two years ago, to the Dil- lingham enterprises, Recently he had been {n vaudeville, His mother and brother ve in San Francisco and his body will probably be sent there for burial, > | FINLAND AND CEDRIC SAFE. pd Britten © at Destina ‘The American Line passenger steamer Finland, third of the armed vessels of hat line to brave the barred zone, has, afely reached a British port, tt became |known yesterday through cable advices |received here, She left New York on | Mareh 23, The loc oMce of the White Star Line received a cablegram from the office this morning announcing the safe arrival in @ British port of the steamship Cedric, She left here a week ago with several thousand tons of cargo, but no passengers. 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