Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-13
MORE OF MONEYS RECORD.

from the Committee of Rules of the |
house of representatives, submitted
the following, which was agreed to |
Whereas grave charges have beef
aud are constantly being made by
the leading press of the country re
flecting upon the integrity and off
ciat actions of certain officials of the
government of the United States
therefore,
. Be it resolved that select com
mittee be appointed to investigate
said charges"
1t seems that the New York Worl(
had charged that company known
ar the Pan-EIectric Telephone and
Telegraph company had been organ
lied for the purpose of invaiidating
the patents of the Bell Telephone
company, and thus allow the Pan
Electric Telephone company to do
business with their patents, which
Bell Telephone company's patents.
That as a part of the scheme Mr..
Garland, who was then attorney gen.
eral for the Quilted States, was given
niue hundred and sixty thousand
dollars in stock to have the United
States government bring the suit to
invalidate the Bell patents THAI
after the Bell patents were invaIi
mated congress was to be urged to
adopt the Pan-Electric telephone as
part of it's postal system. A large
amount of testimony was taken By
this committee, which appears in the
report of the committee to the forty
ninth congress, first session, from
page one onward. This testimony
shows that quite number of con-
gressmen were approached with
offers of the stock of the Pan-Elec-
trio company as a gift. Some OF
them, notably Mr.. Abram s. Hewett
of New York, John G. Carlisle OF
Kentucky, and Mr.. Sam Randall Of
Pennsylvania, refused the stock or
the ground that 1t would call fol
legislative action.
Representative Lewis Beach wa:
sent ten thousand dollars of stock by
J. w. Rodgers, which he returned
with the statement: 81 cannot &C
cept anything for which 1 have no
paid, and most assuredly would NO
hold stock in any corporation which
was seeking legislation of any bod.
of which I was a member"
Congressman Money accepted SIX
ty thousand dollars as a gift, beinl
at that time chairman of the com
mittee on postoffices and post roads
DIR. Rodgers, testifying before the in
vestigating committee, said -"
proportion to the amount of politics
and moral influence that stock hold
ers have Will they give value TO tn
stock, and that was the thing l wa
aiming at" Referring to the sixt
thousand dollars in two differer
companies (see page 30 of the repoI
of the committee on investigation
DR.. Rodgers said: Mr.. Money pal
me just as those other gentlemen
the senate paid me, by letting IN
use his name.'
According to biographical an
pictorial history of Arkansas, Hor
~ H. val 16ud, OCCauSC VI htS COi
nection with this shady transaction
was driven from public life. MI
Money had been succeeded as
member of congress when the lnves
tigation took place, and was resi-
dent of Washington City, it will b
remembered, for six or eight years
1t was during this time the investi
cation was held. He was, however
a member of congress and chairma
of the committee on postoffices an
post roads when he accepted thi
stock which other congressman re
fused to accept on account of thei
official positions.