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Show ROTTENNESS. Kardsley Accuses rostmas-tei rostmas-tei -General Wanamaker. The Postmaster-General Goes Before the Investigating? Committee and Says Bardsley Absolutely Lies in His Statements. State-ments. Philadelphia, July 10. The Bard-sley Bard-sley investigating committee hel l another an-other session to-day, at which Postmaster Post-master General Wanamaker testified again concerning his transaction with I the Keystone bank, and the statement uia-'e by Bi'.rdsley t? Editor McLaude i f ll.c Lu.-jtr, UJ for the nrst time made public. It proved to be a long interview inter-view in which Bardsley again weiii over the story of the Keystone bank, and stoutly maintained he piH th rS30,000 in the bank, but did not know what became of it. Bardsley said that Bank Examiner Drew had been a heavy borrower f.om the Keystone, and was completely under the thumb of Lucas and Marsh, inregai'l to John Wanamaker, Bardsley said that Marsh told him Wanamaker knowingly held over-issued bank stock, demanded $100,-000 $100,-000 for it, and upset the plans for reorganizing re-organizing the bank. Marsh retained Sultzberger & Johnson as counsel and they made a demand on Wanamaker, which he refused, proposing that the Lucas estate should pay him $."0,noo, Marsh $25,000, and the bank 825,000. The lawyers then notified Wanamaker that if the fraudulent shares were not delivered by a specified date they w ould resort to legal meaires. The sh-.res were then turned over without, delay. Bardsley asserted that Wanamaker had made a threat that he would see Comptroller Lacey and have the bank closed before they expected it. In March, 1890, Mar.-di came to him ami said Wanamaker wanted .'1x1,0110 at once, and Bardsley let him have the money. Bardsley also talked a great deal about his connection in the past with several prominent Philadelphia!! and blamed them for the stand they had takfii against him. Speaking of the scheme to get the gas r.orksfrom the city, B n'.-Iey asser.ed that Colonel Met lure, of the limis, was in it. McOure was to get a big block of stock for his advocacy in his paper, and was uot to pay a cent for it. Regarding the payment of the 85(H) o Hugh Mullen, Bardsley said Mayor Fitter Fit-ter wanted Mullen appointed mercantile mercan-tile appraiser, and V111. M. Singirlv, of the Itecord, wanted Richard J. Len-non Len-non appointed to the same place. Afterwards Af-terwards Bardsley learned that Mat Quay and the auditor-general were pushing General Albert Crawford for the same place. The result was that overtures were made to Singerly to draw Lennon ought of the tight, and he waa promised if Lennon was taken out that 8100,000 of State money would be deposited in Chestnut Street bank. This waa done, and Mayor -Fitter got angry at wLat he claimed to be a broken promise. Bardsley then paid Mullen $500 to redeem the promise to the mayor. Bardsley said B. B. Yard got a great deal of the Keystone money. He was in a pool with Lucas and Marsh, and Marsh allowed him to overdraw his account ac-count $00,000, even when the run on the bank was going on. The remainder ot the statement was simply a low story of Bardsley's troubles, containing no new facts. Yard was then called, but did not respond, re-spond, his couusel announcing his case had been appealed. The Committee instructed in-structed the city solicitor to take steps to compel Yiird to appear. Then Postmaster-General Wanamaker appeared. He said he never pledged over-issued stock after he was told it was overissue, over-issue, and it was out of his hands at the time. He did not know Yard, and had neer met Mr. Lucas but once. When asked what transpired between him and Marsh at Washington, he said Marsh asked him to assist the bank, and he declined. Wanamaker said his firms balance in the Keystone at the time of the run was $10,000, and when it closed it was much larger. The last money received from the bank was aboiit'the year before the bank closed, and the last discount was obtained in October, LS'.iO. As to the story told by Bardsley about threats to close the bank, ahd that the lawyers compelled him to return the stock, Wanamaker said it was absolutely false. Granville Haines and Samuel B. lluey, came to Washington to see him about over-is sued stock, and he told them they must settle for it, and if they did not, in justice jus-tice to himself he should inform the comptroller of currency. After the bank closed, lie gave up the stock. Bardslev's statement that Marsh obtained ob-tained from him 820O,i m 10 fur Wanamaker Wana-maker in March, IS'.iO, was absolutely untrue and without the slightest foundation, foun-dation, and Wanamaker invited the committee to inspect his books. Wanamaker Wana-maker was informed by a number of the committee that during their examination exam-ination of the Keystone stork bk. thev found 3200 shares of stock in his name in addition to 2515 shares which he testified had been given him by Lucas Lu-cas to use as collateral for a deal in the Reading. "When I appealed before the committee," com-mittee," said Mr. Wanamaker. "I c m fined myself principally to the business of the firm in my deals with Lucas in the Reading. 1 had in my head certain cer-tain private matters, but did not suppose sup-pose the committee wanted to hear of private operrtions." Wanamaker then airain referred to the 2515 shares which he had held as collateral, and gave the committee a list of those he had turned over to the Lucas estate. That some of those shares had been at one time in his name he did not state, as j he had not used them in any operation. In regard to the stock found in his name, 025 shares of it. he said, was held by Irvin and 'Poland, his bankers, as collateral. This reduced it to 2000 shares of stock. Of these five blocks of 200 shares each were dated March 3, 1SSG, and while issued in his name the power of attorney hail never been endorsed by him, and they could not have been "used. The next lot, of five blocks of 200 shares each, were dated four weeks earlier. When he was a director in the Grand Trust Company, Lucas came to him and asked him to obtain him a loan of 840,-000 840,-000 on stock. 'I have been just foolish, all my life." continued Mr. Wanamaker, "to do those things, and I got money on stck and gave it to him a considerable time afterward. It was paid off by the Lucas estate, and they got stock back." Wanamaker also "presented the committee with a letter from Lucas, May 23, 18S6, enclosing money to pay the'interest on the loan. "Of the other unused five blocks of stock," said Wanamaker, Wan-amaker, "my impression is that Lucas at first intended to ask for a large loan so issued them. It was never issued to them, however, as it could not have been without my endorsement. I know ot no other stuck, bm remem -er ten f :) vears ago, when Lucas w.ts ;-.-!ii:pg '! .he control of ihe ba-iii. he can.e to me ind said he (lid n-t w;::n the . eople to know who (eriuiu stock belonged t and I r a ime placed si. me in mc i;:ur,". l:i ' iv- ;ard to the cs-itiiiiMie '.No. -Co. wl ieii j vas transferred ly Yard v S i u t a. j Durham, of Trenion, that is a p::ri .f ihe stock on w inch the loan Irniu liie -I'rust company was M-cured. and a'.ier ; ihe Lucas estate got it b-.i.-k. ir was J ery likely passed over to Yard :::im !o raise money on." WanamaUcr t:ien igain went over at some length the ransaction in Heading, in which Lucas was partner, and "aid when the -eltleiuent was made I'resident M.n-!i idmitted in the presence of tiuee wit- icsses tliat the Lucas estate owed bint jlo.UtK). The fact that som. of the ' eertincates held as collateral ly Irvin & Roland were dated after " I.ncas' Irath, was ilue, he said, to the fact Jiat the broker would not handle thciu ' while in a dead man's name. In closing his testimony, Wanaiii.iker read a letter from Comptroller I. i. ev ind Assistant Secretary Nelt'.eton. t . show that he never iiitiuencc I nor delayed de-layed for an instant tne appointment of a receiver for the Ke stout hank. j After the hearing, Robert A!. a mb-r. - counsel for Bardsley, read a letter !'io:ii j the latter in which the ex-treasurer ' said Mat Quay came to him as a friend, and not from the papers; that Bardsley Bards-ley told him some things he had heard, nut said he did not know the truth of anything they spoke of. Bard-Icy ands: -; "It now appears he left inc. and w n to out a lot of stuff; what it is I do not know; he may have put words into mv ! mouth that I "never uttered." " I |