Show A DONATION STOPPED THE TE GOVERNMENTS annual dona donaI I tion of oC to the Standard Oil company through the National bank or of New ew York was headed ort off by bythe bythe the I cr ts in c congress on For several years this graft gratt has been beena n a reproach to the tho RepubliCan major majority ity The mone money has b n ong to the bank WhICh i Is 0 oj ed o fh ht bY bYth bythe th the St n Oil cOI 1 or t ot of rent for tor the he old NT YorK c house b gt Which wa sold to the bank by government nt Tt It developed during the house debate over tle al appropriation pr n a debate that was led by Congressmen n Williams and Sulzer that the National City bank baa haa never neer paid a dollar In taxes on the building and that no deed has bas ever been given to it by the the govern government ment for the property Db There re Is absolutely absolutely nothing on record anywhere to show that the building is not owned downed by the goVernment yet t every year cOngress has been appropriating to the bank as rent for the structure ture whIch Is still occupied as a eus cus torn tom house It would be Interesting to know wh why no deed has ever passed wh why no tax tas s shave have ever been paid and why such circumstances It has l been een prop proper er for the government ent t to donate an annually annually a comfortable be fortune to the Standard Oil com company pan C Congressman of the appropriations appropriations committee is 1 oh n record as sa saIng say inn Ing that the tho bank cap can sue somebody and recover the mone money Wo We dont doat know just how such a suit could be brought but it sure that no will be med The National City bank bank wo would ld hard hardly ly Jy care to rIsk the exposure that might result froman rom an airing of this busIness in court It seems to us that if ie t there ete is any suit nt at alP alF In the matter ma ter the gov government should appe appear r In the the role ot of time the plaintiff 0 |