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Show SULZER EAGER TO MAKE PEACE, WTNESS Governor Tried to Secure Influence In-fluence of Charles F. Murphy, Mur-phy, Is Testimony of Allen A. Ryan.. "WAS WILLING TO DO WHATEVER WAS RIGHT" Also Is Alleged That Attempt Was Made to Reach Republican Re-publican Members of Impeachment Im-peachment Court, ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 7. Governor William Sulzcr recently attempted to negotiate a bargain with Charles F. Murphy, loudor of Tamman- hall, to have his impeachment trial "called off" so Allan A. Ityan, son of thc New Yorlc financier and traction magnate, mag-nate, testified at the trial today. If Murphy was willing to got his "following to vote that the assembly had no right to impeach him," the governor, according to' Ryan, "wa3 willing wil-ling to do whatever was right." Tho testimony preceded the calling by the defense of Louis A. Sarecky, tho governor's campaign secretary, and other witnesses. Sarecky, a youth of 27, shouldered thp blame for tho omission omis-sion of unreported contributions from tho governor's campaign statement, confessed ho had imitated tho governor's govern-or's siguaturo to decoive a bank, and declared that he, an alien, "born in Bus-sia Bus-sia and. never naturalized, had boon proniotod from tho position of tho gov-ernor's gov-ernor's stenographer to tho head of tho deportation bureau of tho state hospital hos-pital commission. Story Is Thrilling. .Ryan's story of thc alleged offort of tho governor to mako peace with tho leader of Tammany hall, -iras his second sec-ond recital of an attempt on tho part of tho governor to obtain political influence in-fluence to stop tho trial. Ryan testified yesterday that Sulzor had asked him to pcrsuado United States Senator Elihu A. Hoot to get tho New York state Republican chairman, William Barnes, Jr., to persuade the Republican members of thc court of impeachment to vote tho impeachment illegal. Thc latter testimony was immediately immediate-ly stricken out by a vote of tho court 32 to IS but today on motion of Elon IL Brown, tho senate's Hopub-lican Hopub-lican leader, the court in executive session reconsidered its action and by a vote of -il to 11 decided to admit thc testimony and open thc door for thc remainder of tho young financier's story. Ryan Tells Story. Ryan took tho stand, immediately after tho secret session, lie said that Sulzcr had asked him to obtain tho oflicea of Dclancoj' Nieoll, attornoy for tho elder Ryan, as a "go between" in tho proposed negotiations with tho Tammany lender. This request tho governor made, tho -witness said, on tho same day that he nsked him to intercede inter-cede witli Senator Root, a -week beforo tho impeachment; trial began and in thc governor's Now York office. Tho govomor tald, according to tho -witness, that he controlled, ten Democratic votes in tho court of impeachment. As in tho enso of tho governor's request re-quest that. he. soo Sonator Root, Ryan said that ho mado uo effort to see Mr. Nicoll. Ryan did, however, make an effort of his own, ho said, to "sound tho Republican eentimont." This he did, ho testified, "through a friond." Sees Chairman Barnes. It appeared from his testimony that this friend had Been Chairman .Barnes and ohtaincd from him a statement that "tho Republican organization would do nothing." Tho governor's counsel made no at-tempt at-tempt to cross-examine tho witness, who gavo his testimony with apparent reluctance. William Travers Jerome, personal attornoy of tho witness, sat at thc counsel tablu while tho examination exami-nation was being conducted. Sarecky, much heralded, as thc gov-eruor's gov-eruor's star witness, took the stand among a craning of necks and a buzz of interest. Ho spoke in a high piping voice, and his answers came, almost uniformly, without hesitation. "Wo recoived either from Tammanv hall or from tho secretary of state," began Sarecky, "a blauk form in which a statement was to be made out of receipts and expenditures of campaign funds. "Tho question came un as to whether the committee of the coventor V friends, of which I was treasurer, had jtho right to file a statement, inasmuch (Continued on Paso Two.) ENDEAVORS TO IKE PEACE WITH MURPHY (Continued from Page One.) as it had neglected, or someono had neglected on behalf of the committee, to file with the secretary of state a notico to the effect that such a commit-too commit-too had been formed. So someone sup-crested sup-crested that I tako the matter up with Mr. Sulzer. I went into his room and told him of the quandary wo were in, and ho said, 'Woll, make up tho statement state-ment anj'-way; it does not matter very much who signs it as long as wo comply com-ply with the spirit of the law.' So I went outside and then worked on the statement for about a day and a half, and brought it in to Air. Sulzer and he signed it. " "who, if anyone, assisted you in preparing it?" asked Attorney Hin-man. Hin-man. Says Horgan Assisted. "I think Mr. Horgan was tho one who helped me got it up. lie brought an adding machine from iiis office and ho and I worked on it and finally got it up." Tho witness referred to Matthew T. Horgan, who, he said, formerly had been employed in tho uovornor's Now York office, and who lator became secretary sec-retary of tho Frawley investigating committee which unearthed much of tho preliminary evidence on which the imnoachmont articles were based. "Did William Sulzer have anything whatever to do in tho work of pro-paring pro-paring that statement?" "No, sir," Sarock.y declared emphatically. em-phatically. "What was Mr. Sulzer doing whon you took the completed statement to him for his signature?" "I think ho was going through some of his correspondence. T said, 'Here, congressman, here is the statement which I cot up.' I had tho first page folded ovor back and showed him where ho was to sign. Me turned it back and said, 'Is this all right?' I said, 'This is as accurate as I could get it,' and ho signed it." Did Not Read It. "Did he read any part of the statement state-ment or examine it?" "He could not have read it carefully, care-fully, because he did not hold it over a ininute or two at tho most, just long enough for him to sign his name." "Why did you leave out anr moneys?" "Because. I did not havo an3r record before me at the time I made up the statement to cover the items I omitted. I usod part of the money that I deposited de-posited to my own account in settling a suit out west that had boon brought against Mr. Sulzer during his campaign." cam-paign." "Where was Sulzer whon you did that?" "I cannot recollect just where ho was. " "Did vou confer with him before you did that?" "I did not." "Por what other purpose had moneys deposited by you in this bank account ac-count been used, moneys which do not appear in this campnign statement?" "I cannot recollect just now for what purpose I did use them, but I know I used somo for purposes which were not campaign purposes." Oath Is Not Read. Sarecky testified that Alfred .T. Wolff, tlio commissioner of deeds, who hnd the Sulzer signature, had not read tho oath to tho governor or even scon him sign it. When Wolff was a witness for the assembly managers man-agers he testified he had read tho subscribers' sub-scribers' oath to Sulzer and personally had witnessed the governor's signature, Sarecky also contradicted the testimony testi-mony of Cornelius S. Phicknoy, a New York lawyer, witness for tho managers, who said 'that the governor had told him he did not intend to report Pinckney's $200 gift. The governor said, according to Pinckney, "I don't intend to account for these kinds of gifts." |