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Show BURKE DENIES OFFER OF BRIBE TO N. SENATOR ALBANY. N. V.. April ll.-Empha lie denial was the answer today or Richard H Burke of New York to the charge of Senator George i- Thompson thai Burke had offered ' him a bribe in the form of a 1500 000 campaign fund for the governorship, governor-ship, as the price of the senator's support sup-port of the Carson-Martin bill to pej. mit street railway companies to increase in-crease fare rates. Burke, who is vice president of the Special Service Flooring corporation, i and connected with the Federal SU , nal company, not only denied making 1 the 9600,000 offer about which Senator Sena-tor Thompson bad testified earlier In the day, but said he had never had any conversation concerning the governorship gov-ernorship with the senator Burke told the senate judiciary committed which Is conducting the investigation. Ihat In his conversations with Thomp son regarding traction legislation he represented nobody but himself He had a living to make, he said, and he felt that if he could render some val liable service lo persons prominent in financial affairs he might get some material help. "I don't want to be smirched b Innuendo." he said to the committee. "1 never got a dollar from Mr. Brad or the B R. T. directly, or Indirectly, or from any one connected with hint 1 was not playing Thompson. Thompson Thomp-son had to blame somebody when he talked his head off, so he ju?i shipped it on me." 00 |