The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-18
ONE JOB T0OMANY
HELD BY WILDER.
Resignation Of Associated Press
Man Has Been Ac-
cepted.
$4,000 FOR "slDE LINE
Found That He Was Represent
ing Hanburg-Anerican
Packet Company.

Washington. d. c., June 17.-Repre
sentative Humphrey, CT Washington
introducer OF the ship subsidy bill, yes
terday smoke In the House upon various
forms Of combination among foreign
stcnrpship lines touching American
ports, and referred to discriminatory
rates charged for sending American
products abroad. In the course OF his
speech. he charged that certain foreign
lines were represented in Washington
by member of the staff of the AS
ISOLATED Press. In that connection, the
following was Issued by the Assoc
ciated Press:
sit having come TO the knowledge
OF the executive officers Of the Asso-
ciated Press that an employe in the
Washington office has been engaged
under salary by two steamship lines
to furnish them with certain classes
OF information, an investigation has
been made. 1T has been disclosed that
while such employment did not at any
time involve an act on the part of the
employe which could in any way af-
feet. the integrity of the service, nor
even interfere with his legitimate and
proper work for the Associated Press,
nevertheless, such employment is so
subject to misconception as to serious
ly impair his usefulness, and his re-
lation to the Associated Press has In
consequence ceased by the acceptance
Of his resignation
This termination Of his long, usefnl
and honorable service does not Justify
any assumption that ne has been con-
sciously guilty of any misconduct, nor
that in the work he has performed Tor
the steamship companies he has done
with the Associated Press might not
have done with perfect propriety.'
WILDER the Man.
This is what Mr.. Humphrey said or
the subject:
THE hired representative of Her,
Bailin and his interests Is here III
Washington to-day, on the staff OF tins
Associated Press, the greatest news
gathering agency in the world. Thi:
gentleman's name is Mr. Jerome J
Wilber--and when you remember how
close the German merchant marine i!
TO the German navy, II is at least sus
sestive that this representative OF thi:
giant foreign steamship trust shouis
also be the representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press assigned to our state
War and Navy Departments
when he was on the witness stand
thh-osher day, he refused to TESTIFY a!
to the amount of money ne was pens
raid FOR his service The next da,
after that. Mr. Boas, OF New Yorl
tAfnerican general manager OF tn
Hamburg American Packet Company
was upon the witness stand and n
testified that Mr.. Wilber's compensa,
ton was $4,000 a year.
What does he do? What are the ser
vices that he renders this company,
Mr.. Humphreys statements had ref
ecence to testimony given before Tn
House committee which has been IN
vestigating the alleged existence of
lobby in opposition 10 the ship suosid
project Certain great America
trusts. said Mr.. Humphrey. receive
special rates and privileges from IN
foreign ships. He mentioned II.
Standard OH Company, the steel trust
and the ''harvester combine in thi
connection.
THE Hamburg American Packe
Company Is the greatest power, Is TN
most gigantic trust. combine and me
nopol, that exists in the world" de
clared Mr.. Humphrey. "All the differ
emf combines and companies on the All
lantic ocean are also under that gigar
tic wording scheme and have con-
mon understanding. The head of TIL
greatest of all trusts is the Hamburg
American Line. 1t Is also probable thu
this line eXerts. together with Japal
a controlling interest in all of n
Pacific conferences"