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Show I RYAN SHEDS MORE LSGHT I ON CAMPAIGN CONTOIBUT8QNS NEW YORK, April 21. Part of thoj $500,000 involved in the Wall and Cort- 1 land Street Ferries company deal, which has been under investigation bv , a grand jury for several months, may have been used in Ihe campaign which j preceded the presidential election, in ' 1000, according to testimony. given bo- j fore the jury by Thomas V.' Ryan. Portions Por-tions of the testimony given by various , witnesses during the investigation were ; iiled with the clerk of the supreme J court today by order of Justice Dowl-iurr. Dowl-iurr. From this it appears that when Mr. ) Ryan was questioned about contribu- I 1 ions for campaign purposes and par- I ticularlv regarding tho pavment of1 nearly '$3,000,000 by tho Metropolitan j company for the Wall and Cortland j streot franchise and the subsequent j payment, of several hundred thousand ( dollars of this amount to Mr. Ryan 1 and some of his assistants, he made the I following explanation: ! 1 "It may have been for the election of lOOo, but during the fall or winter of I SUP there had been a preliminnry campaign going on. It was thought pei haps Hryan could be defeated in Kansas City, but it was a foregono conclusion that. Mr. McKinley would be re nominated and part of the money may have gone for that." In a signed statement given nit last night, Mr, Ryan said the money repaid re-paid to him and his associates following follow-ing tho Wall and Cortland street franchise fran-chise was the precise amount, with interest, in-terest, which had been advanced by Messrs. Dolan, Whitney, Ryan. Wide-nor Wide-nor and Hlkins, to cover expenditures which, had been made for the benefit of the properly. Replying to a question ques-tion by Mr. .Icrome regarding campaign cam-paign contributions in general, Mr. Ryan replied: , "I have always found political parties par-ties in a receptive mood. We were always al-ways informed, whon'an election was coining ou."' |