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Show ROOSEVELT IS CROSS-EXAMINED Excerpts From Reports on Gambling, Disorderly Houses and Payments to Officials Of-ficials Read. BARNES IN CONTROL Owns Printing Concerns, But Refuses to Tell How He Got Them Graft Charges. Syrac use N Y. April 22. Theodore Roosevelt again went upon the witness wit-ness stand in thp supreme court here today to submit lo cross examination at the hands of William Ivins. coun sel for William Barnes. In the latter's suit against Colonel Roosevelt, seek ing $50,000 damages for alleged libel li-bel It was the former president's third da on th witness stand There was delay in opening court because of a conference between attorneys at-torneys and Justice Andrews In the latter's chambers. A copy of the Bayne committee report, which investigated inves-tigated Albany countv affairs insofar as it related to printing, was admitted to the rpcord This had to do with contracts for state printing let to the Albany Journal Mr Barnes paper, and other concerns, and tho assignment assign-ment of certain of these contracts. Report of 1911. Excerpts from the report were then read. The first part had to do with gambling, disorderly houses and th a payment of money to various officials for doing various things The report was made in 1911. The majority of the stock of the Journal company, the report pointed out, was owned by William Barnes, that contracts let to the Journal company com-pany were farmed out to the Argus company which paid the Journal com pany 15 per cent. Barnes Controlled Printing, The report stated that William Biirnes controlled printing in Albany, practical!) was owner of one company, compa-ny, owned one fourth of auother and collected tribute from the third company com-pany The report declared that an employe of the Argus company tes-titied tes-titied before the committee that the company gave up fifteen per cent in order to secure printing business. It was stated that the Argus cotn-pany cotn-pany bid lower than other competitors for the state work but was unable to get the business but "it was outside the ring' Tt was said further, that public documents supposed to have been printed by the Journal company and bearing that concerns imprint, actually were printed by the Argus company. Padding of Public Printing. "Padding of public printing for tbe benefit of the Journal company" was described bv thp report Another part react: implicate pavmenis ioi public printing made to the Journal company." One excerpt was "The most conspicuous con-spicuous beneficiary of graft, public extravagance and raiding of the municipal mu-nicipal treasury, we find from the evidence to be William Barnes, himself him-self as the owner of the majority of stock of the Journal companv Flow much more than the majority of its stock he owned he refused to disclose dis-close " Another excerpt read "Mr Barnes dictates where the printing goes and the Argus gives up to tbe Journal in order to obtain printing" Barnes Gets Stock. The par value of Mr Rarnes' stock in the Lyon concern was $75.00u, the report stated, with the comment that Mr. Barnes would not tay how he got it. Articles appearing in the New York magazines and newspapers abou Albany were then admitted to the record rec-ord The terms "machine politics' . Boss Barnes," aud "Boss Piatt" appeared ap-peared repeatedly in these articles. |