Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 22 | 'Slush' Envoy Tells of Deal

SLUSH ENVOY TELLS OF DEAL h f WASHINGTON l W ASHl Nov 20 UP UP- UP T- T Ge George rp H H. H Shaw Denver Denv r attorney taa testified fied before the federal trade c commission ton today today to all allegation gatlon de- de 1 t to strengthen t charges of at a slush sl s payment in 1927 1921 by Colorado utility utility- off officials testified d he hOe acted as messenger messenger mes- mes men mes Benger In Iii October 1927 In carrying an envelope which to the best of my y knowl knowledge dge con contained the In cash He swore he took the envelope from rom Chrls Christy y Payne then vice president of f tho the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey to Frederick Fred- Fred erick crick Bonfils the late publisher of the tho Denver Post Poet S Tho The charges lh that t. t B Bonfils received the payment and that his newspaper thereafter favored proposals to pipe natural gas in Into to Denver were made recently before the commission The D Denver Post and the family of or tho the late publisher strongly contradicted contradicted con con- the charges at that time and produced affidavits t to show how that records of at the p paper per and the estate showed no evidence of the alleged pay payment nent Appearing at the federal trade commission hearing into the natural natural natural nat nat- ural gas Industry Shaw supported earlier testimony by that the latter had sent the money to Bonfils Bonfils Bon Bon- fils ills in return for ls assurance that the newspaper ne would favor the proposal for natural g gas s. s Up to that time timo the pap paper r had been opposing the natural gas deal it was testified tes tes- tes- tes led Shaw swore that he be was acting as attorney attorney- for the Public Service company of Colorado Denver distributing distributing distributing dis dis- dis- dis agency which had entered Into a contract with the Colorado Interstate Gas company a Standard of New Jersey subsidiary to distribute distribute distribute dis dis- dis- dis tribute natural gas from Texas panhandle panhandle panhandle pan pan- handle fields Payne then also president of at Colorado Colorado Col Cot orado Interstate told the commission commission commis commis- sion zion an ordinance was under consideration con con- by the Denver city council council coun coun- cil cli which would have repealed a previous gas rate ordinance and make it impossible to carry through the natural gas distribution agreement agree agree- ment Denver coal Interests had begun a battle against natural gas after the first ordinance making the deal possible had been approved