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Show NEW YORK GRAFT FURTHERPRDBED Investigating Committee Will Go to" Bottom of Story Told by Elder. SUBPOENAS ARE ISSUED . ... FOR PR 0MI N ENT1I EN Will Have Chance to Tell if They Raised Corruption n Fund, as Charged. i I NEW YORIC. Oct. 'JO. The legislative investigating committee begged the question ques-tion this afternoon and for the moment abandoned all attempts to find out who raised the money subscribed at Delmonl-co's Delmonl-co's to defeat the Hughes race track bill, where It went lo. or even if any money really was raised. But elsewhere, following the story told on the wilncss stand yesterday by Robert Rob-ert JSlder, first assistant district attorney attor-ney of Kings county, of his conversation with former State Senator Frank .1. Gardner, details were not wanting today. Instead of pushing forward on the path taken vesterduv, the committee turned Its attention to the bridge scandal accounts ac-counts lu the Allds trials at Albany during dur-ing the last session of the senate. Former Senator Bonn Conger, who made the charges that led to the expulsion expul-sion of Senator Allds. retold the story of bribes paid to legislators. Newspaper Mori Deny. Previous to his appearance, positive denial was made by four newspaper men mentioned in Mr. Elder's testimony yesterday yes-terday that the Albany correspondents of New York nowspupcrs hud been paid moucv by the racing lobby. L.oiils Sei-bold Sei-bold "of the World. Patrick Rellhan of the Press, Goorgc .lanurin of the Brooklyn Brook-lyn Citizen, and Joseph A. MeEntce of the Sun. said they had never received 'a cent. .,, Tomorrow tho committee will resume Its Inquiry into Gardner's tale, as related Continued on Pago Two. NEW YORK GRAFT FURTHER PROBED Continued from Pago Ono. by Mr. Elder, of the use of S5000 to do-feat do-feat the bills. In order that the Gardner story may be .thoroughly probed, subpoenas were drawn today for .lames It. Kceno, Harry Payne Whitney and other men. who, Gardner was quoted as telling Elder, attended at-tended the dinner at Delmonlco's when tho corruption fund was subscribed. No subpoena has been ordered, however, for Charles II. Hyde, city chamberlain, who. Klder testified, also was charged by Gardner with attending this meeting, and no explanation of tho omission was offered. of-fered. James R. Keene this afternoon Issued a statement which anticipates a denial on tho stand. He said: VI never attended n meeting at Delmonlco's Del-monlco's with tho gentlemen named, nor have T ever heard of such a meeting. I have never, directly or Indirectly, paid or caused to be paid, one penny or other sum to any Individual or individuals, or person or persons for other Individuals, or to any fund, as charged In respect of any such race track legislation." |