New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-26
SUBSIDY BR|BE ALLEGED
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tive Long,Yorth, OF Ohio. and other mem
bors of the committee sharply criticiset
/ the two brothers for falling 10 subnl
this Information 10 the committee peior'
now. pointing out that John w. Dods'
worth in his testimony some time age
! had been asked categorically as TO sucf
matters and had denied any Information
such az that disclosed to-day. The WIZ
ness said the committee would have u
ask the brother why he Jailed to dis
/ close the information.
y really think suggested Mr. Dods'
worth, that my brother did not think
Of this matter at that time. He is OF
an exceedingly quiet. retiring disposition
and does not indulge in any sensational
ism"
VERY true, perhaps" replied Mr.
Longworth, your brother may be very
timid, but think Of the position this com
mittce would have been I'm II after all
these months it submitted report with
out obtaining the knowledge Of these
matters Your brother denied categori-
cal questions. Surely while you were
In the room and heard his testimony,
when we were asking him for any infor-
nation along this line, you and your
brother should have said something
q bout this
Was IT up to me?'
1T surely was up 10 your brother
"Tt certainly was up 20 you" inter-
jected the chairman.
Spanish Governments Offer.
Mr.. Olcott asked the witness who rep
resented the Spanish government when
1t tried to buy his papers support. Mr..
Dodsworth replied that the information
OF the proposition came from Charles A.
Conant, who was then the papers Wash
ington correspondent.
Pressed as TO the identity of the man
who made the offer, Mr.. Dodsworth said
that his father or brother may have been
told. but he himself had not been told.
Mr.. Conant communicated the PROPOSE
tion In letter. according 70 the witness,
who afterward qualified this by saying
he thought II was a letter after the
committee had stated II would like TO
have the letter.
Representative Hawley. Of oregon,
asked how much money was proposed in
that offer. and the witness said he did
not know. His father was then manag-
ing editor.
The $4,000 proposition was from Il
tall, darkhaired man" who said he was
a lobbyist in Washington. He was
very frank" said the witness.
Mr.. Dodsworth. asked what he regard
ed as the ship subsidy interests, men
toned the Ward Line and the New York
and Porto Rico Steamship Company, but
did not recall others. He said he could
not undertake 10 name the persons who
made the 100000 offer. but he believed
II came from ship subsidy interests. and
when pressed as 10 what he meant by
that he mentioned the Cramps and the
Reaches as interests coming under that
head
He referred 10 the attacks made on his
paper for its opposition 20 ship subsidies
and denounced as "a lie from beginning
TO last" a clipping from a Cincinnati OF
Cleveland paper which he had received
purporting TO be an article from The
Journal Of Commerce" coming out for
subsidies. He said 1.-THE New York
Commercial and the New York Trib-
unc had called HIS paper subsidized
shipping paper.
Mr.. Dodsworth will resume his testi-
mony tomorrow.
\ thorough Congressional investiga-
ton Of the so-caled shipping trust. with
an inquiry into the methods for sup
pressing competition or pooling profits
is asked for by Representative Hum
phrey. Of Washington, in a resolution
introduced in the House to-day.
Mr.. Humphrey wants q committee OF
twelve seven from the House and five
from the Senate, with power 70 sit dur
ing the recess Of Congress- and 10 con-
duct a most searching investigation. The
resolution directs particularly that the
inquiry 20 into the practices Of United
States and foreign owned lines Of ships
engaged I'm handling American COM
MERGE or Of railroads interested IN or
controlling coastwise commerce. as tC
their conferences, pools. agreements OF
combinations for The purpose Of giving
| rebates, dividing earnings, fixing rates
and destroying competition.