El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-12

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| dUcing companies.
stock Prices Held Up.
During all this time the price OF
| AmaIgamated Copper in the stock mar
! ket was held up by the price of the
metal, was it not% asked Mr. Inter
Il can't say; don't know anything
about the stock market" answered Mr..
Mr.. Untermyer produced the record of
/ operations in Amalgamated stock from
4 1900 to date to show that there was
great activity in the purchase OF the
stock for a year prior to March, 1907.
At that time, when the metal was being
held, he said, great quantities OF the
stock were sold on the exchange, eYl-
IDENTIFY from the accumulation OF Tor
mer- purchases. Despite sales OF 3
147, COS shares in March of that year,
the price which had been 121, was
maintained thereafter during the period
the copper metal was held. until, When
the metal was released in october. the
stock dropped to SO.
Mr. Untermyer endeaVored to get Mr.
WOlfson to connect these two uanSac-
lions. but without result
Republican Is Unseated.
Representative Charles c, Bowman,
Of the 18th Pennsylvania district, was
unseated in the house today by
vote of I5S to 11S- in favor of G. B.
Mclean, his Democratic opponent,
who charged corrupt practices in Bow
mans election The contest was over
the election Of 1910 and gives Nc
Lean the salary and allowance for the
Representatives Clash.
Representatives a Mitchell Palmer
and Farr, Of Pennsylvania got into
bitter dispute on the floor of the
house today during consideration of
the BOWman-McLean election contest,
when Mr. Farr charged that officials
Of the LackaWanna railroad had &C
lively supported Mr.. Palmer in the re-
cent election. Mr.. Palmer replied to
Mr.. Fairs charge as "a Wilful, DELHI
crate and malicious lie and demanded
lnaL he publicly apologize or prove his
assertions to the house.
To Fight Taft Nominations.
When the senate met at noon, the
omnibus claims bill was taken up.
The Archibald impeachment commit
tee met at 1880 .. m.
Democratic senators in caucus APP
pointed a committee to plan action
against president Taft's federal nomi-
nations.
The Archibald Case.
Efforts to show that the charges on
which judge Robert W. Archibald, of
the commerce court. is now standing
trial before the senate as a court of i'm
peeehmeesnt, are the outgFowth OF bias
and a "disordered brain" were made
by attorneys for the accused during the
testimony of William P. Boland, Of
Scranton, Pa,
these efOfrts were not in order during
cross examination. Attorney Charles 5.
Worthlngton, representing judge Arch
bald, declared he would call Boland
dateE as his own witness.
How judge Archibald asked officials
Of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad to confer with George II.
Watson, a Scranton attorney repre-
senting William P. Boland and c. c.
Boland, of the Marion Coal road, with
a view to the settlement of the Boland
claims against the road, was the sub
ject of the eaminatiOn of president ".
H. Truesdale, general counsel W. S.
Jenny, vice president E. +. Loomis, r
A Phillips, John L Seager and z. n.
Rine. all of this railroad. The charges
are that judge Archibald agreed for
curing a settlement
Asked Him to Confer.
Mr.. Loomis testified that judge Arch
bald asked him to confer with Watson,
epressing the opinion that a settlement
might be reached The judge later
called upon him to learn the progress
of the negotiations, he said Mr.. TTues-
dale told of a conference he attended
upon the matter.
Wasn't the conference arranged by
reason of judge Archbaid's requests"
asked representative Floyd. one of the
mouse managers
4 presume so. but Mr.. Watson also
asked for a conference was the reply.
Mr.. Phillips told of being invited to
Judge AICnbdlQ mousse 10 TAX ABOUT
the possibilities of a settlement. The
railroad officials testified that Watson
wanted S161,000 in settlement, while
they We're not willing to give that
much. Ehe negotiations failed.
Railroad Hearing Ends.
Hearings Were concluded last night
by the house rules committee on the
o. Shaughnessy resolution to provide for
a congressional investigation Of a pro-
posed traffic agreement between the
New York, New Haven & Hartford and
the Grand Trunk railroads, which is
alleged to have resulted in the suspen-
sion of work on the Southern New Eng
land railway
T. H Walker. of Washington, who
appeared at the request of chairman
Henry TO discuss the application Of the
Sherman law to the case, suggested
that If the Grand Trunk, as a result or
an agreement with the New Haven, had
abandoned construction of the Southern
New England, after securing franchises
from the states in apparent good faith,
the only way congress could afford re-
lief would be by enaeting a aW forbid
ding the Grand Trunk. a Canadian cor
pOration, doing business in the United