The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-22
LOEB SCORES SIMS
Presidents Secretary Recom- monds Caution in Dealing With Official Repu-
 tations.

Washington, April 2l, -lhe refer- cntea to Mir. Lool, secretary to the president in the house yesterday by MT, Sims CTennJ in connection with Eis ownership of i1oo shares of stock in tho Washington Railway and Elcc- tric company, called forth to-day a letter from Mir, Loeb to that gentleman explaining how tho stock came Into hla possession and suggesting to Mir, Sims that he should be most scrupulous in dealing with mems characters or rcputatluns, Mr. Sims read the let ter,
 Explaining his possession of the stock Mir, Loeb says;
 "One hundred of these shares, enough to enable me to qualify as ldrector, are mine; i,60O are holding of friends of minc for which l simply acted as representative at the last annual meeting of the stock- holders of the company, at which ] was elected a director with the view of my possible election as president of the company, if decided to take up that llnc of work after leaving official life, This record has been and still Is open to you or any other honest man at any time, and t clearly demonstrates that any insin- uatlon that in any mysterious or un- l worthy way, ar in any way whatever, I have accumulated such consider ! able fortune as your speech Implies Is as unfair to mo as it is unworthy of you"
 sp,aking of what he calls Mir Sims "intmaton that l have Inn properly intcrfored in traction legis- l latlon," Mir. Loeb says:
 "lmmediatcly after my election as 2 director of the company the chairman of the house district committee, Mir Smith, called upon me and started to ask my advice as to certain bills af- ] fectlng the traction companies pending before the committee, at once inform cd him that while occupied the posi- tion of secretary to tho president could not and would not discuss with any member of congress any matters of legislation affecting the local public service corporations. have seer Chairman Smith, who will verify this statement and 1 cite this instance tc show how serupulously careful l have been to observe the proprietles in the case. No senator or representative even among my intimate friends, has been either directly or indirectly approached by mo on any phase of the traction leS lslation.'
 After reading the letter Mir Sims said he was the last person to take advan' tag of any congressional privilege tc say anything derogatory of any man and therefore he felt that the lettei should be read in as public manner a' he had made his statement. He daclar' ed. however, that he had based hi' statement on an official communication to the speaker wherein it was showr that Mir. Loeb had i,1OO shares of the stock In his name.
 Later Mir. Sims without mentioning the name of the senator to whom h. yesterday referred, but who it was learned through tho senator himself was Mir. Ncwlands of Nevada, as own ing over ono thousand shares of capi- tai traction stock. read q statement from the senator saying that the stock camc into his possession as trustee ot tn sharon estate long before his entry into public life and that sire he controlled Ii he had not partc:. patcd in any lceisltl,on on street rail way matters.
 Senator 'Newands himself gave out { statement in which he said that whel the legislation regarding the stree railways m connection with the Unior station came before the district com mittee ho informed tho members of th' committee of his interest in the stocl and announced that he would not par ,cipatc in their deliberations. and thai he has since taken no part in the delib erations or action of tho district com mttee or of the senate upon this sub feet,