The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-18
SPEAR DENIES
HOBS0N's CHARGE
CONTINUED From First Page.)

fluence with the Speaker nor with
Mr. Williams. | do not know either
gentleman. Neither myself or the
company did anything to help secure
a place for Mr.. Hobson on the Naval
Committee
Mr.. Spear said he had met Mr. Hob
son since this conversation. but no
reference had been made to it. and
Ihat their relations were still friend
tween the Electric Boat Company and
| Vickers Company, of England, Mr..
Spear said that the Electric Boat Com
DanS and the Vickers Company had
entered into contract which conten-
plated the exchanging of improve
ments. but that the English government
objected. and the contract was changed
SO that improvements made by either
company mp are not exchanged.
MI. spear denied that the Electric
company had made an excessive profit
out out OF Its contracts, and said the
hlectrlc Boat Company had never sup
pressed competition. He declared that
me 5ne company had never received any
eyer eyer received any order from the
Navy department except as the re-
sun Oh successful competition.
Received $50.
a. A; Erly: one of the newspaper
men whom, Mr.. Lilley said he po had
peeh warned against, denied that he
n l.au ever neen In the employ of the
ne had distributed some articles on
SUBMARINE boats to newspaper men for
MI; McNeir, for which he had been
pa paiu so 70 cover expenses. He said
non aau s, never received any. further
the Electric Boat Company. He also
SAID he had no knowledge Of a news.
paper PAPER lobby here. as charged by Mr.,
NJ ;,,a ne SAID that, as a result Of
position with the press association Nv
which he was employed. w." ~
frank B. Lord, another of the news.
said he ," 1na against hsa whom Mr.. Lilley
that he had ever been in fha s uer.Ieu
OF me Electric Boat Company. althomeh
ne said he had prepared some "feature"
sIIoSles ABOUT submarine boats for Mr..
ne vNsln NV which had been furnished to
, r.a put IN none OF the papers rep
resented by him. These articles ha
90 'ut we're not written with the view
n ~ lnnnt a1 legislation, but were
paper men for stories on smh,na rIras
lie denied that he belonged to n na avs
paner lobby W ~"
regarding an interview which he
Which Viii ne ch a 1lad mad with Mr.. Lilley. in
assehtalves Sherman. Griggs and 9TH
ers, and which Mr. I.illey had renudi-
'ated, Mr. Lord said the interview Was
absolutely correct "as
In that denial" continued Mr.. Lord
Mr.. Lilley said what was unolalifediv'
absolutely, deliberately untrue, for he
uttered every word that was printed ),
Lost HIS Position.
MT. Lord stated that as the result OF
AIR: Lilley's charges he had lost his no :
siton. In answer to question pro-
pounded by Mr.. Littleton. Mr. Lord said
that complaint Mr.. Lake had made to
MS paper about something lie had writ
ten concerning the Lake boat also may
nave beer. instrumental in having him
I discharged.
Mr. Lord said he could not remem-
Der the exact amount he had received
from Mr., NcNeir for writing the spe-
cial stories, but he thought 1t was be-
tween $500 and 5000. He said he did
not consider that he was working FOL,
| the Electric Boat Company when he
wrote these stories that he did the
work for Mr., McNeir.
Mr. Lilley has fled with the commit
tee an unsigned communication received
! from Philadelphia, stating that evil
! liam Dulles. Of New York City, and
| Robert AIcA. Floyd of Cold Spring Har-
! Dor N, Y, both formerly directors OF
| the Electric Boat Company, resigned
4 because of the amount used for corrup-
/ tion or for which they could make no
| accounting"