The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-10
LOBBY INQUIRY
Is CONTINUED
Senate Committee Hears For
mer Representatives In.
terested in Legislation.
FAULKNER ON THE STAND
Former West Virginia Senator Gives
Testimony Relative to Work
in Washington.
Ivy JOSEPH p. AMIN.

How easily members of the House and
Senate step from their seats in Congress
to lucrative berths with big interests to
whom their liability to get around In
Washington is or might be valuable. was
fshown yesterday afternoon in testimony
before the Lobby Investigating Commit
tee.
The committee finished with all Senators
now available at the mornings session.
and in the afternoon started in to interro-
gate long list of alleged lobbyists who
are under subpoena. Former Senator
Charles J. Faulkner of West Virginia, J.
A.. T. Hull, former chairman of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee Of the House; A.
w. Kopp a former member OF Congress
from Wisconsin; William S. Bennett, for
merry a member of Congress from New
York, and Charles B. Landis a former
member from Indiana, all were examined
before adjournment.
Kopp Is Heard. II
All except Bennett and Kopp qualified
Jas professional Legislative experts
Kopp was retained by lead and zinc
mining interests located in part in Wis
consin TO urge higher duties on those
two products. He talked to a couple Of
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee on one occasion and made no
further efforts in that direction, he testi-
field. Bennett was retained, first, by the
Diamond Trade Tariff League, of New
York. and later by lace manufacturers,
preparing briefs and presenting argu-
ments for both clients, and making sew
eral flying trips from New York for the
purpose. He testified that the fact that
knew my way around Washington had
something to do with my employment,
but it was not the only reason"
Faulkner of West Virginia is the man
to whom Senator Kenyon referred when
he testified last week that one former
member of the Senate was lobbying on
the floor OF the Senate. Faulkner de-
MED that he ever had talked business
to 4 member of the Senate on the floor
Of that, chamber, and three members of
the committee. Cummins, Nelson. and
Overman. volunteered the information
that when Faulkner had appeared be-
fore committees on which they sat, his
methods had been above reproach.
Hull. formerly chairman of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee of the House,
admitted that he has been doing general
Legislative work. since he left the
House in March. 1911. During the tariff
tight he has represented the potash peo-
pie. Mr. Baker. of Philadelphia, ar
ranging for his employment As is true
of Faulkner. he maintains an Office in
Washington, and at various times has
represented the Bell Telephone people.
the Veterinary Association of the United
States, and the sage and tapioca flour
interests. besides having a lucrative
departmental claims" practice Of q
quasi-leEal nature,
Charles B. Lambs. formerly of Indiana.
has been a resident of Wilmington. Del.
for the past three years, during which
time lie has been "associatedN with the
Du Pont Powder Works.
Lands testified to a nebulous sort OF a
contract with the powder people, by
which he was to further their trade
with Latin-American countries. As a
former member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House, Lands was sup
posed TO be peculiarly fitted for this work.
as it seems to have kept him in Washing
ton good deal of the time for the past
three years. He testified that when the
Ways and Means Committee commenced
hearings on the Underwood bill he filed
brief on the subject of blasting caps.
lie naively told the committee that he
did not kSPw anything about the powder
business.