Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-11
Speaker Replies to Claims
of Lauterbach aud
Lamar.
MET THE FORMER ONCE
Shows Their Own Admissions
Prove Representations to
Have Been False.

Washington, D. c., July 11.-Martin
w. Mulhall, whose published charges
of activity as lobbyist for the National
Association of Manufacturers have
named many congressman as having
been susceptible to influences of the
lobby" was ready today to begin
his testimony when the senate lobby
committee assembled.
Inasmuch as some witnesses of the
wool tariff phase of inquiry were wait
ing to be heard Mulhal was forced
TO wait.
Speaker Clark made the statement
that he never had anything to do with
David Lamar or Edward Lauterbach,
or any men mentioned by them. ].
Pierpont Morgan, he said, he saw at
the Gridiron dinner in Washington
several years ago, in which Roose-
welt and former Senator Foraker en-
gagged in a joint debate.
1T was the hottest debate l ever
heard in this country" said the speak
er. Clark put in this statement:
LIE Is ACKNOWLEDGED.
'Ledyard says Lauterbach told him
ne was in communication with me
through Senator Stone. Lauterbach,
who acknowledged on the witness
stand he had lied, said that Lamar
gave him the information. Lamar con-
fessed the whole tale was a lie to
force the Morgan company to take
Lauterbach into their employ. All of
them disclaim any acquaintance or
communication with me. Stone
justly characterized the Lauter-
bach-Lamar tale as a lie, in which he
entirely is correct. He and l never
in our lives conversed about or in any
way mentioned to each other the Nor
gan company or the steel trust inves-
tigation. / never spoke to Morgan
or any member of his firm in my life,
and never communicated with him, or
them. Neither did l authorize any
body else to do So
DIVIDED BY TABLE.
II never saw any of them except
Morgan, and that was across a large
dining room in the Willard hotel at
the Gridiron banquet.
Il several years ago was introduced
to Lauterbach in Washington in the
presence of several gentlemen and
! passed salutations to him, that's all.
| never saw him before or since. or
/ | never communicated with him in
any manner.
Il never heard of Lamar, and knew
only through the papers that there
was such a man as Ledyard."
The speaker was not sworn, so the
committee did not ask questions.
HOUSE HEARING DELAYED.
Because the senate lobby commit
tee is about to begin examination OF
the Mulhsll charges which the house
committee hoped TO use as a basis OF
its work later, the committee NAV be
forced 20 delay its examination of the
Mulhall charges until the senate com
mittee has finished. Timothy Murphy
Of Chicago, an elevator man at the
capitol. who is thought to know some
thing about threats of bodily harm
said TO have been made against Mul
hall, has been subpoenaed by the sen
ate committee. Murphy is expected tC
tell of conversations he overheard.
New York, July 1.-THE fedora
grand jury continued its investiga
ton today of the case of David LANAI
under that section of the fedora
statutes which provides punishment
for impersonation of an officer or EN-
ploye of the government Paul D
Cravath, attorney for the Union Pa
cific, was subpoenaed TO appear today
Other witnesse, it is said, are to b,
United States Senator Stone and Rep
resentatives Palmer and Riordan
whom Lamar confessed he imperson
ated.