The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-26
BUSINESS MANAGER OF NEW
YORK JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
WAS OFFERED BRlBE.
TO SUPPORT SHIP SUBSIDY
DodsWorth Tells Committee That
He Was offered One Hundred
Thousand Dollars to Give Support
to Bill: Also Panama Purchase.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 26.-Alfred
w. Dodsworth, business manager
of the New York Journal of Com
merce, before the house ship sub
sidy investigation today, told OF an
attempt to buy the editorial support
of his paper in favor OF the Ameri-
can governments purchase of the
Panama Canal property from the De
Lesseps Company of France.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Revelation OF
attempts to buy the editorial sup
port OF the New York Journal of
Commerce in favor of ship subsidy
legislation, which that paper has
consistently opposed, was made to
the house ship subsidy investigating
committee today by Alfred w Dods-
worth, business manager of the pa
per.
Earlier in the day, Paul G. Four
nier, representing the Uranium
steamship company line, against
which the so-called London confer.
ence lines, controlled what is alleged
to be SO per cent of the Atlantic
passenger traffic, are arrayed, told
how railroad authorities in this
country, notably the Central Pas.
lot rhinaun ha6
refused to sell tickets routed over
Independent lines unless the inde-
pendents obtained the sanction of
the conference lines.
AS result of the evidence, Mr..
Dodsworth's brother, editor OF the
Journal of Commerce, will be re-
called to Washington to explain why
he failed to enlighten the committee
in his recent testimony. 1t is prob
able that Charles A. Conant of New
York, a former Washington corre-
spondent, may be asked to throw
light on an offer to subsidize the
paper. claimed to have been for
warded through him to the Journal
Commerce, which he then repre-
sented.
Alfred W. Dodsworth arrived at
the committee room with a list of
questions he wanted propounded to
him, impelled by what he regard
ed as Misrepresentation of the at
titudc of his paper. The testimony,
however, suddenly broadened, and
the witness sought refuge in referr-
ing the committee to his brother,
now in New York, for detailed en-
lightenment.
The witness said his paper never
had ben subsidized by any interests
whatever and its business and edito-
rial columns had no relation. But,
he testified, about six years ago,
person came into his office and offer
ed to pay the Journal of Commerce
100000, taking one million copies
of the paper for the insertion Of
an article in one issue, supporting
the ship subsidy legislation.
This man refused to disclose his
identity unless his proposition was
accepted. His proposition was, in
the evnt of acceptance, to make out
certified check Immediately for
$4,000 to bind the agreement and
to pay the balance of $4,000 upon
publication of the article. Mr.. Dods-
worth said he Immediately called
his brother, John W., into his office,
as witness to the conversation and
the proposition was declined.
That, however, was only one such
event. Another man, about two years
ago. Dodsworth said, tried to buy
the support of the paper for $4,000,
and in the Spanish-American war
the Spanish government tried to
buy the papers influence.
Chairman Olcott, Representative
Longworth of Ohio, and other men,
bers of the committee sharply crit
icised the two brothers for failing
to submit this information to the
committee before pointing out that
John w. Dodsworth in his testimony
some time ago had been asked cate
gorically as to such matters and had