| Show T STilE S-TilE fr ALL ACE C01S5IITTEB = Dahnpeat Tells ft Hard Story About New 1orlt Natural zatlona New York 16 Befom tie Val lice senatorial committee tuJay Jno J Deavenpoit supervisor pi elections continued his testimony in rr fciud to tbe manner in which Judge Mcl unD conducted the iatum ziticn business The proceedings were conducted con-ducted in an irregular manner and Ii I kInd of mock court held Witness gave the names of men who bad teen I naturalized before being in tbe countiy six weeks The witness 6a d tbo number of peracn who registered oo fraudulent ceilificates in 76 wa 10000 and in lS7a it was reduced to 3200 Of thEse only abcut 100 voted and be woulJ have presented them it Lc could Ho denied conducting con-ducting the affairs of his office in any partisan manner and in fact had been accused by Iho republicans of favoritism Daveupozt mentioned tbe name 01 > Patrick Goff whom be said appeared aa a witness for persons desiring to be naturalized in 196 cases Certificate were sold in blank to applicants for naturalization and they were charged from 50j to 2 Four hundred of these papers were taken in one day by GoO to Kinga County Many of tho blanks were alto talcn to the river counties for sale and in Saratoga County 40D were oflared for sale Davenport then continued and read from a number of records ot tbe Eupremo and superior courts to show tbat the certificates issued xcetded the number of persona who actualy applied for natuniHzttton papers and also to show that large Lumbers of names from the btoia of tbo court were fictitious and ihn the dresses given bad no existence > uid frequently represented vacant Iota and stone yards |
