The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-20
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: FRIDAY MARCH 20 1908

characteristics, ] should say no." re-
piled Admiral Capos.
Admiral Caps was asked the follow
ing question. prepared by Mr.. little
ton, counsel for the Electric Boat com
Dany:
"Since you became chief constructor
/ has the Electric Boat company ever
received a contract except by winning
competition and except at a price fair
and reasonable"
He repiel: ITO the best - Tay
knowledge the Electric Boat company
has not received a contract in the last
I four years which was not fair and rea-
I sonaDe. So far as competition is con-
/ cerned, the contracts have been based
upon results obtained after trial"
Denied by Dulles.
! Before Secretary Metcalf took the
/ stand Chairman BoutelI had read a
/ letter from William Dulles If Now
York regarding the anonymous letter
Mr.. Lilley had left with the commit
/ tee. stating that Mr.. Dulles and Rob
ert McA. Floyd of Cold Spring Har-
Dor N. Y, had resigned as director of
the Electric Boat company, because
of the amount used for corruption ana
for which they would make no ac-
counting"
Mr.. Dulles said that no such facc IS
suggested in the anonymous letter
caused his resignation. He resigned
| because he did not have time TO de-
vote to the interests of the company.
and had done so with great regret
Mr.. Boutell stated that the committee
had intended TO take no notice of the
/ fact that the letter had been pub
lished, and as Mr. Lilley had sent it
to Mr.. Dulles, the committee had de-
cided to have the matter entered on
the record.
Edward ClaTksOn, secretary to Rep
resentative HObsOn, testified that Mr.
Spear told him that the Electric Boat
company had influence with Speaker
Cannon and could use IT to secure the
assignment of Mr.. HObson as a mem
/ Der of the naval committee. but be-
fore this influence would be used Mr.
! Spears would have to know how Mr.
HobsOn stood on the subject of sub
marines Mr.. Garrison said that he
transmitted this information to Mr.
| Hobson, and later Mr.. Spear called Mr..
Hobson on the telephone and repeated
/ it to him.
Pacific Coast Worked"
Mr.. Lilley presented to the committee
an affidavit signed by Clement z. Ad-
ans and dated Bridgeport, Conn,
March IS. 1908. in which Mr.. Adams
swears that while he was engaged in
| business in the city of Washington dur
/ ing the summer of 1906 ]. F. F. Archi-
bald represented to him that he was a
war correspondent for Golfers Week
! ly, and that he had been appointed by
/ the president of the United States to
visit certain cities and towns on the
! Pacific coast and to report to the presi-
( dent upon the condition of the coast
0 Il s.
/ the depOnent, Mr.. Archibald said to him
/ later that he had visited certain cities
and towns on the Pacific coast and had
/ reported thereon to the president; that
/ he had appeared before certain cham
/ bers of commerce, boards of trade and
! other associations of business men and
citizens in various cities and towns and
states on the Pacific coast: had ad-
( dressed them upon the advantages TO be
gained by the purchase by the United
States government of submarine torpe-
do boats. and that certain petitions and
/ addresses made to congress were caused
/ by the efforts Of Archibald. At a later
period. according TO the affidavit Mr.
Adams showed TO Archibald a newspa-
per article on the subject of subma-
rine torpedo boats wherein the Lake
submarine boat was criticised. and
Archibald informed him that he was
/ the author of the article that he wrote
the same and that the criticism of the
Lake boat therein contained was melted
/ and caused by request to him made by
/ Lawrence Y. Spear, an officer of the
/ Electric Boat company, and that the re-
quest was acceded to by Archibald be-
cause he (Archibald) was under obIiga-
tons to Spear and the Electric Boat
company.
Accompanying the affidavit was the
following letter from President Roose-
velt denying that Archibald was ever
appointed or employed by him or so far
as he knew, appointed or employed by
any one connected with the administra-
ton:
The White House, Washington, D.
/ c., March Is, 1908.
My Dear Mr.. Liiley: Referring to
our conversation of this morning, Mr.
Archibald never was appointed or en-
plOyed by me. nor so far as | know was
} he ever appointed or employed by any
one else connected with the administra-
/ ton. Some time about year ago he
came in and saw me for about two min
utes and said that he was going to make
an investigation of the question of sub
marine defense on the Pacific, and par
4 ticularly, l believe, in reference to Pu-
get sound, and that he was immensely
interested in the subject, having been
/ a war correspondent for various papers.
and that he would like to send me re-
/ port Of what ne found / answered him
I that of course / should be very glad to
| receive such a report from him or any
other man who might investigate the
/ subject. He sent me a letter on the
subject a few weeks late which I trans
mitted to the secretary of the navy. /
/ have transmitted dozens of similar let
tiers from men who have told me of in
vestigations that they have made or of
1 facts which they had found or sugges-
/ tiOnS which they believed were impor-
tant. 1t is the usual course: it was fol-
I lowed i'm this instance exactly as in all
! similar cases. Sincerely yours
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
! George L. Lilley, House of Represen-
! tatives."
Stands by Affidavit.