Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-07-11
FORGOT ABOUT $4,000 FUND
SPEAKER CLARK BRANDS LAMAR
ACCUSATIONS AS BEING PACK
OF LIES
He met MORGAN ONLY CNCE
TELLS or ROOSEVELT DEBATE AT
GRIDlRoN DINNER-"lT WAS
HOTTEST EVER

w tl2l4A1e3tSAly July - " A~AA 1AN
senate lobby committee met today
Winthrop i. Marvin, secretary Of the
National Association of Wool Manu-
.facturers, put in a synopsis Of a state
ment showing the financial operation
Of the association
He was questioned about a special
$4,000 fund raised several years ago,
He said he had no recollection of how
that fund was collected or disbursed
William Whitman, former president
of the association, then explained a
$4,000 gift made to s. N. D. North,
secretary of the association in 1897.
Speaker Clark made statement re-
lating to the use Of his name by David
Lamar and Edward Lauterbach. He
testified he had never hay anything
to do with Lamar, Lauterbach or any
Of the men mentioned by them.
j. P. Morgan, he said he saw at a
Gridiron dinner in Washington sever
al years ago at which former Presi-
7eIE and CORNER Senator
F5ralker engaged in a joint debate.
1T was the hottest debate ever
heard in this countF said the speak
er. Speaker Clark put in this state
ment: aa
'Ledyard says that Lauterbach told
him that he was in communication
with me through Senator Stone. Lau-
terbach, who acknowledged on the kit
ness stand that he had lied, said that
Lamar gave him the information La
mar confessed the whole tale was a
lie to force Morgan and Company to
take Lauterbach back into their en-
ploy. All of them disclaim any ac-
quaintance or communication with
Senator Stone, who Justly and proper
" characterized the Lamar-Lauter-
bach tale as a lie, in which he was
entire corrAct.
"He and never in our lives con
versed about or in any way mentioned
to each other Morgan and Company
or the Steel trust investigation.
II never spoke to J. Pierpont Nor
gan or any member Of mis- firm in my
life. Never communicated with him
or any Of them in any manner; never
authorized anybody else to do SO. !
was to my best knowledge and belief
never introduced even casually to
him or any Of them. TO my best
knowledge and belief I never saw any
Of them except Mr.. Morgan himself
and that was across the large dining
room Of the New Willard at a Grid
iron club banquet.
Il was several years ago intro-
duced to Lauterbach here in Wash
ington in the presence OF severaa gen.
tIemen and passed the usual saiuta-
tions with him. That was all. 4
never saw him before or since ana
never communicated with him in any
manner whatsoever about any busl-
ness matter whatsoever.
Il never heard Of Lamar and knew
only by seeing his name in the pa
pers that there is such man as
Lewis Cass Ledyard. It seems to
me that when MI Ledyard found cut
that Senator stones name and mine
we're being banded about by Lamar,
the pseudo Palmer and Lauterbach,
he ought to have let me know"
The speaker was not sworn and
the committee did not ask him any
questions. He left the room when
he had finished reading his state
ment
Whitman was questioned about the
$4,000 gift to North. an incident
which attracted nation wide atten-
ton when It was first disclosed sew
eral years ago. He put the Gift III a
letter 70 North dated Boston, septem-
Der a7. 1897, signed By himself, George