Modern battles of Trenton .. . r-mott and McAdoo. They badehim encourage the tempter,,and he played him along withthe pretext that the price wa¬ large enough, and $1,000took the place of the $500 ina new equation. Shinn pre-tended to agree, and while hewas eating dinner at his hotela day or two later, a waiterslid a long envelope under hisplate. He opened it and un- Culver Biirealow. j „ . * i aa U 1 covered five crisp $100 banknotes. They were half of the promised bribe money. In corroboration of his affidavit, Shinn fluttered the crisp,new bank bills in the eyes of the startled members. T
Modern battles of Trenton .. . r-mott and McAdoo. They badehim encourage the tempter,,and he played him along withthe pretext that the price wa¬ large enough, and $1,000took the place of the $500 ina new equation. Shinn pre-tended to agree, and while hewas eating dinner at his hotela day or two later, a waiterslid a long envelope under hisplate. He opened it and un- Culver Biirealow. j „ . * i aa U 1 covered five crisp $100 banknotes. They were half of the promised bribe money. In corroboration of his affidavit, Shinn fluttered the crisp,new bank bills in the eyes of the startled members. Thechamber was thrown into indescribable uproar. Cator sprangto his feet with a motion for a committee of investigation, andwith Flynn and Gaston of Passaic, Fiedler of Essex, Parrottof Union, and Baker of Cumberland, he was instructed to con-duct the inquiry. The House was forced to a recess by theconfusion, and at evening the committee began its work. It sattill daylight of the following morning. The identity of Shinns-. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 199 tempter was discovered in a short, thick-set man, with rovingcoal black eyes, set in a round, swarthy face—John J. Kromerby name. The members who had voted for the bill before itwent to the Governor marched through the witness-box in steadyprocession to make denial that they bad accepted the moneyShinn had spurned. Audacious little Robertson was obliged toconfess that he had taken a retainer at his office from an agentof the company for three or four speeches he had made odthe Assembly floor in behalf of the bill. Convery, of Middle-sex, deposed he had heard from a Mr. Baker that there was money in the bill, and Fiedler, of Essex, told how , the legislative agent of the company, had, passinghim, let fly the observation that it was worth a thousand tovote for the bill. The committee got together, after all had been heard, andsolemnly resolved that there was no corporation behind Kromers$500, and that as for Cul Bar
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