Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-31
SUBMARINE OFFICIAL
|. EMPHATIC IN DENIALS.
lssas |. Rlss, President uI tito
Company TssllIIss BsiaPa In.
VestIgalIag Committee.
IS8 WRONGFUL INFLUENCE USE9
Declares That Some OF the Statements
Made by Congressman Liley Are
Malicious Llee-Name of Senator
Buckley Now Dragged Into the Case
Lake company's Proposition.
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WASHINGTON, ID, c., March Of -
Isaac l.. Rice president Of the Electric
Boat Company, today made sweeil-
ing denial Of the chnrges prefessed by
Representatives George T. Lilley. OK
Connecticut. before the apecIal com
mttterthat is investigating the chang
ga He denounced several Of the
statements as malicious lies and said
that others were too absurd to an
swer.
& ilo testified TINT he had been ap-
PREACHED by agentssuf the Lake noat
Company with propositions for the
Electric roat Company to buy ont the,
! Lake Company the negotiations to be-
nonti,igs1t on the stopping ofihe I'M
yestigauon. Those seho nppraaclied
| Nj. Rice. ascordins 10 hiB Testimony.
.gef.re y. S. Grant brown and Charles
/ ififni, liotf 81 New Foil. hut Mr., lsice
.tfd la Aid not know beyond MIR.
drown y atateuient that The latter was
[isssssss.sat M the Lake Company. When
4 was To be stqpped, Observation-Disclosures
Il MI, 4. brown SAID It could, be stonns u
/ by United States Ssnhtof BucislSy, OF
Connecticut.
We're John p. kellogg. assistant stated
attorney for Connecticut, and VIII
liam o.. Gordon of Midland. Mich,
both attorneys for tho Electric Boat
Company. They denied knowledge OF
any wrong influence being used by the
ElectrictBoat Company to secure leg
islation In Congress.
Mr.. Lilley today presented u request
> TO the committee that Admiral Caps,
chief of the bureau OF construction of
. the navy department. who testified
last week, be recalled and all his
questions propornded in tho order in
4, which he had prepared them.
i Requests BY MIR. Li.ley.
Mr.. Lillcy also asked that expert
accountants be appointed by the COM
mittee to examine the records, ac-
counts. vouchers, checks, and other
documents that may be brought be-
Z fore the committees, and he further
L suggested that such experts, IL ap.
report, a basis alone upon which
thorough investigation and accurate
" report, basis alone upon which alone
your committee will be. able to fully
interrogate the witnesses When placed
= upon the stand"
The first witness examined today
WAS John p. Kellogg, of Waterbury
assistant states attorney for Connec-
ticut. and representative of the Elec
trio Boat Company in that state HIS
- testimony dealt with n conversation
=. in 1897, with MIR. Lilley, at which ht
in 1907, with Mr.. Llley memoran
Il, I'M Nv IL mt
he for Il blank appropriation for submar
nd inc boats. the boats to be submitted
he TO competitive companies. The mem
orandum said the Electric Boat Com
20 pany did not want anything but I,
fair show
ne Mr. Lilley said this was fair prop
Die osition.
-, ~ Mr.. Lilley. he said, knew that IL
:, was representing the Electric Boa
=, Company.
es Mr.. Kellogg did not confer with an
n, other members of the naval affair
les committee.
ort did yon ever seek to bring any pc
litical influence to bear on Mr.. Lille
.ov. on behalf of submarine legislation
the Never
We In reply TO questions by Mr.. Ho'
illus ard, Mr.. kellogg said he did not col
ion slider AIR. Lilley's interest in. the ] al
ion Boat Company at all reprehensibi
He did noS believe that Mr.. Lilley W
IA in favor OF monopoly concerns
of contracts for submarine hnats. il
ems talk was not in favor of any one boz
ex- Rice's Emphatic Denials.
ABB Mr.. Olsmstead read the charge ma
ain hy Mr.. LilleF that the continued n
repeated efforts made by represent
Their tiyes OF the Electric Boat Company
oeen Influence the navy department a
gard such offices In the past were so ps
sistent and notorious as to call
1000 the condemnation and crtitcisms
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