The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-22
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New York Paper Prints Letters
and CabIegrams
Showing Methods Employed by
Shipbuilding Trust.

New York, Dec. 22-The hearing in
the United States shipbuilding receiver
ship proceedings was postponed today
until tomorrow because of the illness
of Counsel Untermyer of the suing
bondholders.
Before the examiner announced the
adjournment, Mr.. Guthrie, counsel for
Schwab and others, made a statement
regarding the publication of the let
ters and kilograms that passed between
the firm of Alexander & Green regard
ing the French underwriters, Mr.
Guthrie said in part:
Il desire to call the examiners at
tention to the publication in a newspa-
per in this city this morning, of the let
ters, kilograms and cables which have
been the object of examination at sew
eral hearings before you.
These letters, telegran@ and cables
were not exhibited in evidence because
Mr.. Alexander feel constrained to
plead privilege and confidence because
they were the private communications
from members of law firms in relation
to the private business of their clients.
Pending the ruling of the court on the
admissibility of these communications
which you said you would certify to
the court and while these letters, tele-
grams and cables were claimed to be
privileged they were furnished to a
newspaper and published this morning.
We understand this publication to be a
direct contempt of the court and the
person guilty of causing their publ
cation is guilty of a gross contempt.
We ask you therefore that at the next
hearing we may temporarily suspend
the taking of testimony of complain
ants witnesses and take testimony as
to the person who gave publication to
these letters, cables and kilograms.
Mr.. Wollman, associate counsel with
Samuel Untermyer, replied:
eff there is to be an inSinuatiOn that
Mr.. Untermyer or myself had anything
to do with giving publicity to these
communications I hereby declare that
it is absolutely untrue. Neither Mr..
Untermyer or I had anything to do
with giving out those letters, kilograms
and cables to the press. Mr.. Guthrie
knows there are many copies of them
in existence and that copies could cas-
prised at seeing them published this
morning as Mr. Guthrie could have
been"
II hope so, for the good name of the
bar" exclaimed Mr.. Guthrie.
You have done much in this case
against the good name of the bar, MIR
Guthrie replied Mr.. Wollmen- Your
course has been reprehensible. l do not
! know nor do I care what the law is
but the persons who gave these COM
munications to the press ought to be
punished. 1 do not object to Mr.
Gutkrie's insinuation when Mr.. Guthrie
knows, as he does, how easy it is to
get these copies
After some further discussion between
| counsel, it was agreed they should CO.
! operate in an effort to learn who gave
out the communications in question.
In one of the letters from Paris ad
| dressed to Alexander and Green, anC
made public in the World. Mr.. Alex
ander is quoted as follows:
Il constantly say to all parties tina
/ nothing can be done in the way of as
/ sisting the underwriters here to dis
| pose of their bonds unless they frank1!
come forward when notified, acknoW
ledge their liability and make theil
first payment, when all hands Will unit
in endeavoring to sell any bonds the,
may wish to dispose of.
1.-The Niscomtesse Dandignea sat b.
me at dinner last night. She has som
of the SCOTS Union Iron works stool
and shad just teiegraphed refusing t
sell it except for a higher price thi1l
I persuaded her that it would be goo
! judgment not to stand but 1 suggeste'
I to her that perhaps Scott would max
her an offer in the securities of tn
i new company which will be goo'
enough to be attractive, as one OF he
difficulties is the trouble of investing
the money she may receive
In another letter dated July Il, 1907
signed by Mr. Alexander. the statemen
is made that in investigating the Banl
Roma the writer learned that the pop
! had S. coo 600 in that bank that he had
], similar sum with Rothschilds an
about the same amount in England
According to the World, the ''Drex
eIsf' was used in the correspondence t
represent Morgan, Harges & Co, an
in one of the letters credited to Nj
Alexander there appears the follow
ing:
T got pledge from the Drexels tina
everything good should be said OF tn
enterprise
One of the French underwriters wa
named Schreyer and the following rel
erence was made to him in one of IN
II hear he has million dollars b.