The sun., 1902-08-27
NOISY P. POWER CASE SESSION
ARMY or LAWYERS SPRING tP
DEMANDING "yINDICiTION."
Lamb Becomes the storm Centre-He
Did II Alone. Cries Treadweii Ce'e-
Threatens Another Investigation
With Trouble In n for Tale.Tellers.

! A Storm of legal thunder ant lightning
| bUrs' over ,ha heads Of George Alfred Lamb
and Peter Power at Yesterdays hearing
before Special Examiner Mahay, and for
time The storm seemed 20 threaten the de-
s'rIc'icn oF 'ho,r two much -hara~s ~sed in
. diyiGual- LAWYERS on every side II them,
representing the mon whom Lamb has
namri a. his -i!en, client, in the Power
sui against the Northern Pacific Railroad,
haraIsu-i and denounced the vanishing
plaintiff and his counsel in unmelsured
terms Investigations and revelations ar"
now promised 20 an extent which, # carried
| ou' as per programme, will rroiong the
hearings far into Re future. though The
I sJene 4 action nay soon le shifted back
/ 10 Minnesota, vharo tho suit originated.
Yesterdays session was productive Of
[ nothing in tho -1apa II evidence, hut for
speeches II easily made g record in the ca -e
The principal orarorical EFFORT was made
! bY Treadvell Cleveland. associate counsel
/ for Camille Weidenfad and the other men
who have been characterized by Lamb a.
! Powers hackers Il developed that Weld
| enfield. in addition ~ Cleveland, Parker
c. Charler and " Bourke CooSran. has
now on saged Gen B F. Tracy Wheeler II.
. Peckham and Paul Fuller - protect his
! interests In the proceedings He has also
! brought on firm Of Western lawyers
/ B1ut-.e. Buckley 4 Moore. 20 hear out his
I testimony a. 20 hi CONNECTION with the
Power suit and promises al-o 20 bring
Judge Lancaster from Minneapolis The-e
| Western counsel all want 10 go on 'ue stand
! LAWYER Lamb announced yesterday his
/ intention Of s.hlpgalug Nj. Cochran 10
testify but in the fac" Of present condi-
| tions he may change hi. mind. Mr.. Cleve-
! land. in his speech a, Yesterdays hearing
| by Implication called into question the
! validity Of the kind Of oath that Examiner
! Mab.v administers 20 witnesses and de-
cared that another Investigation would be
! begun soon before a tribunal which can
| administer what he calls "a proper oath.
The morning session was short and un-
! interesting. Tie men whe had been asked
20 appear and sign their testimony were
not present But in the afternoon the
cour, room was crowded with a galaxy OF
Weidenfeld counsel, all Of whom were an1-'
ious TO pour forth a stream Of vituperation
on Lamb and Power. Most Of them sue
ceeded They also tried by every means
in their power 10 shake the even temper and
imperturbability OF W d, Guthrie and
Frank B Kellogg. the Northern Pacific law
yers. In this the Weidenfeld army failed
utterly, and finally retired discounted,
When Mr.. Guthrie called Weidenfeld 10
take the stand, that he might sign his tes'i-
mony and answer few more questions,
| a fat refusal was the only response.
Treadwell Cleveland declared that his client
would not answer another question.
heated argument followed, but Weidenfeld's
lawyer could not be budged Mr.. Fuller
arose in the middle Of the discussion and
; announced that he and Gen. Tracy, who
; would De unable 10 appear in court till hurs-
! dav, had been retained TO protect the in
, terests of several honorable members
, of the bar, who were ready in court TO tes-
tify and refute the bt'smirching imputations
| cast upon them by lamb IN his testimony.
He referred 10 B0ute.le. Buckley and Moore,
and asked Mr. Guthrie TO let these men go
on the stand But the Northern Pacific
counsel replied by calling j. II Lancaster.
the automobile dealer. who testified early
in the case as TO his knowledge Of Power
= Lancaster Wa asked TO sign his testimony
! | and did so. He is the man who made an
! affidavit that the United States Steel Cor
| poraton's assets were worth only 800
> 200 600 and who has since told under what
: remarkable circumstances he made that
r ! AFFIDAVIT
D While Mr.. Fuller was engaged in de-
nouncing Lamb and asking that the Vest
| ern lawyers be pat Oh ih" stand Mr. CleNe-
land arose and delivered himself with many
/ dramatic fouri-hes. He asserted that
. Parker C. Chanler. against whom the IN
: sinuation had been made by Mr Lamb,
, that he was a party 20 sending Peter Power
! ! out OF the courts jurisdiction, desired 10
testify that there never was any such ar
rangement with either Mr.. Lamb or any
| BODY else, but on the contrary he Chan
2 lerl who was the only one Of these gent le-
/ men who ever saw Mr.. Lamb on the sub
: ject, advised Mr.. Lamb, in the presence Of
o others, TO send az once for Power and bring
! him back within the jurisdiction.
!, But" continued Mr.. Cleveland. we
= recognize the very peculiar situation Of
this tribunal. a tribunal wherein the wit
ness IL exposed TO the croes-eNaminatlOn
V Of two hostile counsel. hut l. not allow ed
q TO saw a word himself This j. suit around
3 which there has been a great deal Of mys-
. terry thrown, to the effect that there was
somebody behind Peter Power. II has
y been now established that this was litl-
= CATION commenced by Mr.. Lamb under the
I, allegation that he had some reputable
u client and under that false statement he
). induced Mr. Weidenfeld to apparently con.
u tribute, but in reality TO pay the whole OF
: the expenses, and put Mr Weidenfeld IN
i the false situation Of having instigated the
suit, whereas no one knows II better
than Mr. Lamb-he himself was the rea
instiRator Of the suit
He besought Mr. Weidenfeld, former
,. client. 10 20 in with him and Mr. Weidenfed
being assured that Peter Power was a man
of means and was going TO prosecute this
litigation in good faith. joined with him
y As Mr. Weidenfeld has stated. he con
?. sidered that there was nothing wrong IN
., that and he proposes, As soon a. the papers
r. can be drawn, to get out of this nauseatlng
case Of Peter Power. around which sucf
mystery has been thrown, as II there were
"a some one else back Of the case, some enor'
"a nous moneyed power, some Wall Street
It power, some stock power. or some othei
a power, but not Peter Power-as if there
were some enormous interest in this matter
As for Lamb, continued Mr. Clevela nd
Is when we are called to investigate thess
l. matters in tribunal where witness car
\ have counsel, and where a proper oath car
:. be administered promise Mr. Lamb tha
, such investigation shall be had He viii
20 have an opportunity Of testifying before q
!, proper tribunal, where he will not have
~ an unrestricted liberty to besmirch hi
h former clients
~ ~ There was no mystery about the case Mr.
~ Cleveland declared-none whatever Mr.
~ Weidenfeld acted under the advice of hi
10 former counsel, Mr.. Lamb. believing hin
- to be a reputable member Of the bar :
:. need not say what has been the result
70 he added threateninglv Then he asket
- that Mr. Chaner, he permitted TO have al
~ opportunity Ito refute the infamous as
:, sertion that he had attempted TO run Pete
u 80, l..A trt1