New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-26
destinations of Sir Rufus
Isaacs. D. Lloyd George and
Herbert Samuel Called For.
OWING TO MARC0NI DEAL
prclish Attorney General Takes
All Blame in Attempt to Pro-
tect Two Colleagues
Mentioned.
lBv cable to The Tribune. !

,ondop. March 26.-Most of the
rsvsrapers are reserving their editorial
.omment on the evidence of Sir Rufus
,ss.cs before the Marconi committee
until the examination is concluded. but
,hs Labor organ. The Daily Herald"
80, content to do tits says:
lloyd George. Isaacs aud Samuel,
,bres of his .majesty's ministers. should
no called upon TO resign at once. /!
Parliament. or that portion of it known
&c mis- majeSty's opposition. does not
call upon them To resign. then collu-
sion is the only word that fits the sit
nation. II is quite possible that the
Liberal party may IIake some pretence
# sacrificing Sir Rufus Isaacs on the
altar of Parliamentary morality, but
they know that Jehovah will send an
angel in the nick OF time to stay their
hand. and Isaacs may be spared TO
he,o,ne Lord chief Justice. j. G.. chief
arbiter in this country Of right aud
wrong. Could there he a greater scan
dial, Dare the present disCredited
Liberal government risk it,"
London. March 25.-Widespread dis
o,,e,ude has been created throughout the
British Isles by the admission made by
Sir Rufus Isaacs. the Attorney General,
Tat he was partner with the Chan
e.llor of tho EXchc1ucr David Lloyd
George and the chief Liberal whip the
Master Of Elibank in q big deal in the
shares Of a company associated with the
wireless concern negotiating huge con
tract with one Of their colleagues in the
British Cabinet.
There was a great rush to-day TO Sc
cure seats at the reOpeninS of the Par
Hamentary inquiry into the matter. as
The public desired TO hear the explana-
lions Sir Rufus lsaacs and David Lloyd
George would give OF a transaction which
even such stanch radical organ as
The, Nation characterized as "ineX-
pedent and indicate, and gricvous
error Of Judgment
Protests Were Vehement.
When yelled suggestions as to minis
,erial deals in wireless shares were first
moo,ed Sir Rufus Isaacs and David Lloyd
George vehemently protested their limo
cence in the House of Commons. Both
NInisterialist and Opposition members
accepted their denial in perfect faith, as
covering the whole ground, and the reve-
lation now that it referred only TO the
yarent company, and that they failed to
disclose their deal with an associated
ecmpany. has shaken the nations faith
IN the high standard of ministerial cor
rectness.
On the stand to-day before the Pariia-
mentary committee sir Rufus fsaacs told
the chairman that up TO the time or the
agreement for a wireless empire chain,
which was signed on March :. 1872 he
had never had any interest I'm any Mar
conf company The first he knew about
the American company was on April >
last. on the return Of his brother from
America His brother told him he hao
made himself responsible for taking
large number of shares in the American
company. and offered TO let him have
some. Sir Rufus Isaacs said that eventu-
ally he took ten thousand at about slo
each" after his brother had informed
hin that tho American company had no
interest I'm the British company.
Thouoht All Was Right.
Sir Rufus. in reply to direct qucs-
ton told the chairman that before inc
purchase he had inquired whether the
American company could be affected by
the Marconi contract. and had received
a very definite answer, which was abso-
hlely in the negative.
Sir Rufus Isaacs proceeded TO give de-
tails as 10 how he had let David Lioyo
George and the Master Of ElioanK par
tcipate I'm the transaction. He ADDED mat
Mr. LLOYD George and the Master OF Eli
hank owed him each tenth OF the loss III
regard TO their ! 900 shares. and this rep
resented about $1,000.
Sir Rufus Isaacs told the chairman that
be had smarted much under the "fouI Hes
spread about himself and his colleagues
The chairman. Sir Albert Spicer' some
what polntedly inquired why. when ne
heard the rumors, Sir Rufus Isaacs ga
rot Immediately acknowledge his dcallhs"
in the shares Of the American company
Sir Rufus replied that II did not occur 10
him TO do so.
After rernarking that the Chancellor OF
the Exchequer. Mr. Lloyd George, ana inc
Master Of Elibank had not yet paid 'he.r
shares Sir Rufus Isaacs generously tooh
upon his own shoulders any blame tha'
might be attached to the deal. saying 'hat
They had bought the shares only because
Of his recommendation, and that criticis"'
should be directed at him and not at theni'
Sir Rufus Isaacs admitted in conclusion
that in'view OF the stories put into circu-
ation the deal was not wise one ou'
added: 1T never occurred 10 me that any
BODY would insinuate had been guiity vi
anything approaching corruption. lha'
VAS an element which ] never TOOK INTO
account, and which never thought likely
70 arise In English public life.