The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-17
Member of the Staff of the
Associated Press Discovered
to Be Under Salary of Ham
burg-American Company.
SOUGHT INFORMATION
FOR THE FOREIGNERS
Exposed on the Floor of the
House by Representative
Humphrey of Washington
Resignation Quickly Follows.
A. P. MAKES A STATEMENT
w WASHINGTON, June 16.-Repre-
w sentative Humphrey OF WASH
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w WASHINGTON, June I6-Repre-
w sentative Humphrey OF WASH
inEton, fntroduccr of the ship
subsidy hill, today spoke I'm the House
upon various forms Of combination
among foreign steamship lines touch
ing Americnn ports and referred 60
Ing American products abroad.
He charged TINT certain foreign lines
were represented I'm Washington by
member OF the staff OF the Associated
Press.
In that connection the following was
issued by the Associated Press:
1T having come to the knowledge
Of the executive officers Of the Asso-
ciated Press that an employe in the
Washington service has been engaged
under salary by two steamship lines
to furnish them with certain classes
OF Information. an investigation has
beer made. 1t has been disclosed that
while such employment did not at any
time involve any act upon the part OF
the employe which could in any way
affect the integrity of the service. nor
even interfere with his legitimate or
proper work for the Associated Press,
nevertheless such employment Is 50
subject to misconceptiOE as to serious
ly impair his usefulness. and his rela-
ton to the Associated Press has in con-
sequence ceased by the acceptance Of
his resignation
This termination of his long. use
full and honorable service does not JUS
tify any assumption that he has been
consciously guilty Of any misconduct
nor that in the work he has perform ed
for the steamship companies he has
done anything which one not connect
ed with the Associated Press might
have done with perfect propriety."
Mr. Humphreys Remarks.
This is what Mr.. Humphrey said on
this subject:
THE hired representative Of Herr
Balm and his interests is here in
Washington today on the staff of the
II CUnrtufnd Press
gathering agency In the world. This
gentleman's name is Mr.. Jerome J. VIII
ber and when you remember how close
the German merchant marine Is to the
German navy it is at least suggestive
that this representative Of this giant
foreign steamship trust should also be
the representative OF the Associated
Press assigned TO our state, war and
navy departments.
when he was on the witness stand
the other day he refused to testify as
to the amount of money that he was
being paid for this service. The next
day after that Mr.. BOas Of New York
american general manager OF the
Ham burg-American Packet company
was upon the witness stand and he
testified that Mr.. Wilber's cOmpensa-
tiOn was $4,000 a year.
What does he do? What are the
services that he renders this com
panyy'
Mr.. Humphreys statements had ref
erence to testimony given before the
vestigating the alleged existence OF a
lobby in opposition TO the ship subsidy
project.
Loss of south American Trade.
In other parts of his ship subsidy
speech Mr.. Humphrey said that by a
method OF fixing" the trade South
America buys from the United States
only about per cent Of what 1t I'M
ports.
Certain great American trusts. Mr..
Humphrey said. received special rates
and privileges from the foreign ships.
He mentioned the Standard oil COM
pany. the steel trust and the "HaC-
vester combine" in this connection.
THE Hamburg-American Packet
company IS the greatest power, is the
most gigantic trust combine and mo-
nopOly that exists n the world" Mr.
Humphrey said. "Al the different
combines and monopolies on the At
lantic ocean also are under that gi-
gantic working scheme and have a
common understanding. The head of
this greatest of all trusts Is the Ham
burg American line II also is prob
able that this line cNerts. together with
Japan. a controlling interest in all Of
the Pacific's conferences"