Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-03
LOBBY HEARING
LISTENS TO
LAMAR
PREMIER LOBBYIST TELLS HOW Ne
WROTE RESOLUTIONS TO Be IN
PRODUCED IN CONGRESS- ==OTHER
WITNESSES TESTIFY.
usD CONGRESS TO
EFFECT WALL Street

Washington, D. c., July 3.--Confirn
alton of David Lamar's claim that
vas he who drew the congressiona
resolution under which the Stanle
committee investigated the Unite
States 4teel corporation. was given t
the senate lobby committee today b
Henry B. Martin, head of the so-calle,
antitrust league
Martins testimony, less grlppin
and less startling than Lama.'s yes
terday when the latter blandly told o
confidential relations with Wall Stree
leaders and his impersonations .
congressman was corroborati ra ant
supplementary to Lamar's on severa
II nts. He testified tnat after La ma
dre" the steel trust investis satlal res
o'u' ION, he (Martin) induced kepresen
taIve Stanley to introduce it, He die
not tel Stanley that Lamar vas its
suthor, but did not try to suppress thf
fsct. He disclaimed knoW,,l-a thai
Lamar had used the resolution before
introduction in dealings with finan
cierS and he protested he knew moth
ing Of Lamar's telephone impersona
tions.
Persistent questioning by the sena
tors failed to make Martin divulge
what the antitrust league was or who
composed it. He declined to give
names of members or tell Of the dis
position of thousands of dollars he
said it had spent.
Edward Lauterbach, the New York
lawyer, who figures in David Lamar's
impersonations of congressman in
telephone talks with New York fin
anciers, was not on hand today as
the senate lobby committee had ex-
pected when it resumed taking testi-
mony.
Henry B. Martin of so-called anti
trust league here, was called to be ex-
amined however on Lamars state
ment that after he had drawn reso-
luton for a congressional investiga-
tion of the United States Steel cor
poration, he gave the resolution to
Martin, who in turn induced Repre-
sentative Stanley of Kentucky to in
troduce it in the house.
Martin claimed he had presented to
the secretary of the navy evidences
nf frauds in armor plate contracts
and that he had given information to
other government officials regarding
violations of law by the railroad
trust, coal trust, steel trust, harvest
er trust and elevator trust" at a cost
of more than 100000.
Further questioning brought out
that Lamar in 1909 when the Wicker
sham railroad law amendments were
before congress, had supplied argu-
ments and information that Martin
presented to members Martin thought
such information had led to the strik !
ing out of the sections to immunize
railroads from prosecution.
"Did Lamar prepare the draft of the |
resolution for the prosecution Of the |
U. s. steel trust" demanded Senator
Senator Cummins.
"It is my recollection that I asked |
him to prepare it," said Martin. He
added that he had no specific arrange
ment with any member of congress |
for it's introduction. "This resolution
was used in New York as basis for
an attempted reconciliation between
Edward Lauterbach and the Morgan
firm" said Senator Cummins.
Martin insisted that he knew moth
ing of that.
Under questioning Martin testified
that the resolution was introduced in
the house in practically the form he
and Lamar agreed upon.
did you tell Representative Stan
ley who finally introduced the resolu-
ton that Lamar had prepared it,"
''I don't think So"
did you try to suppress that fact?"
"Not in the least"
Washington, D. c., July 3-The
committee wanted to know what Mar
tin knew about lobbies in Washing
ton.
He declared that when Chairman
Lovett of the Union Pacific board and
Paul D. Cravath of counsel had been
to the department of justice to dis
cuss the Union Pacific dissolution with
Attorney General McReynolds they |
had "lobbied" the department. A. C.
Dinkey of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany, Vice President Johnson of the
Steel company and Vice
President Petrie of the Mid Sale {
Steel company had been in Washing
ton in March lobbying for armor {
plate contracts, Martin declared I
can active part Of that lobby is the
navy league" he added. I
]. P. Morgan, Jr., and Herbert Sat G
terlee of Morgan and company, he t
as interested in the navy I
league. Z
"The result of their lobbying has /
resulted in the United States pay \
ing hundreds of millions for obsolete \
ships and useless armor', said Mar
.in 1
At the close Of Martins testimony a
he committee took recess until S
l:30 .. m. when G. Harold Powell of n
he California Fruit Growers associa' Ia
ion will be examined,