Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-11-24 | Page 10 | Sulzer Not out of His Troubles

SULZER NOT BUT OF HIS TROUBLES New York. N Y . Nov 24 - The methods by which wealthy corpora tions and contractors were "sandbag ged ' during the Sulzer regime will be revealed to the grand Jury tomor i row. Filmore Condit. New York agent for. the Union Oil company of California, la expected to tell of his transactions! with James K Mctluire, former ma j or of Syracuse, and heavy stoekhold er In tho Barber Asphalt company Condit has declared that an attempt Wtt made to hold up his firm by glv ing the Barber concern a monopoly of state road work District Attorney Whitman hopes to get an indictment, against McCnlre and also to connect former (kernor Sulzer and Highway Commissioner Carlisle with the pot to give the Bar ber company n monopoly in supplying supply-ing the state and the contractors hold ing highway contracts Stephen Clark millionaire friend of Sulzer, will be called to tell of the conference at tho Cooper house last July, at which It was planned to give the Barber company a clear field. It was after this conference that Condit declares he was approached by James K McGuire with a propo Bition that the Union Oil company pay George McGuire 1 per cent a gallon j commission and contribute $6000 to the Democratic state campaign fund j in return for being permitted to participate par-ticipate in the blddlnK for highway contracts. Condit found that the 1 per cent commission to be paid on the quantity of asphalt to be furnished would amount to $15,000. Condit decided to drop the proposition. Although Al-though McGuire suggested a high bid. Mr. Whitman expresses no alarm over the alleged purpose of the Os borne Investigation to obstruct the work he has already begun.