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against Crow because of the kidnap
ping of young Cudahy.
John A. McCall, former president of
the New York Life Insurance com
pany died February 18. Worry over
the insurance disclosures is said to
have been responsible for Mr. Re
call's death.
Premier Campbell-Bannerman of
Great Britain has declared himself in
sympathy with .the plan to establish
a national system of old-age pensions.
Henry Gerald, the first editor of the
Omaha (Nebr.) Bee, died at San Fran
cisco,, aged 76.
The Commoner.
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office of secretary of the treasury, Mr.
Gage became president of the United
States Trust company, which is as
sociated with the National City bank
Mr. Vanderlip became vice president
of the bank itself. New York American.
THAT BANK SCANDAL
The investigation Dy congress into
the very amazing relations of the
Standard Oil, or City National bank,
and the United States treasury, asked
for by Mr. Sulzer's resolution of in
quiry, is certainly essential.
It ought to be demanded alike by
former Secretary or the Treasury
Lyman G. Gage and Frank K Vander
lip, who was Mr Gage's assistant in
the department, botn of whom are
now in positions of financial profit
with the bank or its affiliated com
panies. The story is. .fairly well known to
New Yorkers, and, indeed, to the peo
ple of the whole country, most of
whom agree with Representative Sul
zer in describing it "the most scan
dalous in the history of our govern
ment."
In 1899 the old custom house in
Wall street was sold to the City Na
tional bank for $3,265,000. The City
National bank was a depository of
the national treasury, and therefore
paid out no r money whatsoever. It
credited the Unitecf State3 govern
ment with $3,215,000. The govern
ment made no demand for this money
as it had at all times rrom $15,000,000
to $20,000,000 deposited with this
Standard Oil bank.
As the government could not ex
pect a new custom house to be ready
for occupancy for some years it is
not ready now it proceeded tolease
the old property from the purchaser
at 4 per cent on the purcnase price,
or $130,000 a year.
Thus the Standard Oil bank re
tained the purchase price of the cus
tom house, which it could, and did,
lend out at interest, and collected
rent from the United States treasury
as well.
But it will be noticed that the bank
did not even in its oookkeeping pay
the full price agreed upon. Fifty thou
sand dollars was to be left unpaid until
the bank actually toorc possession.
What wasvthe meaning of this? Sim
ply that it was an astute device by
which the bank might avoid paying
taxes to the city of New York on this
property. It has not paid taxes yet,
J)leadlng that the government still
owns the property, and that federal
property can not be taxed by tho city.
The comptroller of New York esti
mates the taxes which the bank has
evaded at $80,000 a year. For these
delinquent taxes tho comptroller very
properly promises to sue.
The whole contract or sale to the
bank covers a period of ten years.
In round numbers, the amount of
profit which the bank will receive in
this time, unless the contract shall
be set aside, including rent, interest
on the money it did not pay the gov
ernment and saving its taxes, will be
over $3,400,000. At the end of the
period the bank will own the prop
erty and will have seen paid almost
$150,000 for having taken it. More
over, competent real estate experts
estimate that by that time tho prop
erty will have appreciated in value
more than a million dollars.
The officers of the United States
government who negotiated this bar
gain were Lyman J. Gage and Frank
A. Vanderlip. On retiring from the
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IN OLD NEW YORK
It is the custom of tho New York
papers to sneer at the unRnniiieHnntAfi
doings of the people in other parts
of the country. Apparently, however,,
jiiufcinB ii-uui uiu revelations made In
tho evidence of Colonel Mann in the
libel case now on trial, many of tho
most prominent and wealthy men of
the metropolis were the easiest kinds
of easy marks for parties who merely
proposed to write them up favorably
or unfavorably, according as ihov
paid out their cash, ccnoronsiv nv tint
It is marvelous to read how easy it
was to get large sums of money
ostensibly as loans or In return fnr
certificates of stock whoso value bore
no proper proportion to the money
paid out. That the leaders of New
York society should have been held
up in this way argues ill for their
common sense, and at the same time
shows the total lack of real value to
the utterances of the so-called society
journal. Pittsburg Post.
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man printer on the Nationalist Free
man's Journal. He has long heen the
leader in the Dublin trades council, is
a member of the corporation, and rep
resents the College Green division in
parliament. He still nightly does duty
in the Freeman office, tnough he lives
in Dublin's palatial mansion house,
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and ranks during the tenure of the
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