The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-07-19
LAMAR ASTOUNDS
LOBBY COMMITTEE
Wall Street Operator Makes an
Amazing Confession.
BIG FInANcIERs DECEIVED
W tness Tells Of Inpersonatlns Con-
Iressmen In Telephone Talks
Charges Union Pacific For
gerry Of So, oo0, 900.

Washington, July 5.--The lobby"
inquisition of the United States SEN
ate has taken sensational turn.
With unembarrassed assurance, Da-
vid Lamar, better known on Wall
street as The Wolf" told the senate
committee how he had unprecedented
Democratic national leaders In tele-
phonic offers to some of the most i'm
portant figures In the nations finan-
cial circles
The intermediary whom he named
In those representations as the man
who could deliver this influence and
control congress and the department
of Justice in behalf of the New York
ers. he said, was Edward Lauterbach,
New York attorney. who already has
figured In the hearings. and who VIII
resume the stand tomorrow to tell his
side Of the melodramatic story that
was rehearsed today.
II was an amazing tale throughout.
and Lamar seemed almost to boast OF
his offense. Yet the committee has
mend punishment for Lamar's self
confessed fraud, either under the
federal statutes or those Of the state
CT New York Neither have the men
whom he tried TO defraud been able
to suggest a penalty.
There is still grave possibility OF
perjury proceedings. however. In the
l;.I - II ha
mony.
Confession Is Brazen.
On the stand today Lamar tried to
convince the committee that his tricks
had been carried out merely to in
gratiate his friend Lauterbach" with
y. p. Morgan & Co. and boldly de-
:ied that they intended blackmai of
my kind. With reckless bravado he
referred to hiu representations alter
nately as fraud" and "trickery," and
then as a Joke and farce"
But he told an unabashed tale OF
having impersonated Congressman A.
Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania to
Lewis Cass Iedyard OF counsel for
Che Steel corporation and the Morgan
firm. as the preliminary to a proposal
by which Lauterbach was to control
the attorney generals office, 10 pre-
vent criminal prosecution OF the steel
trust, under specia, dlspensation from
Speaker Clark. Senator Stone, Robert
l.. Henry, William j. Bryan and 9TH
crs. He admitted there was no basis
for the proposal. and that he and
Lauterbach never had talked to these
gentlemen. But Senator Stone de-
nounoed him as dirty trickster" in
the committee room and told him he
ought TO be in the penitentiary.
Startling Tales Unfolded.
Then followed other tales just as
startling. Lamar unprecedented Con-
gressma, Daniel j. Riordan of New
York TO make r. s. Lovett Paul ID.
(ravath and Maxwell Evarts OF the
Union Pacific believe Lauterbach
could control the work OF Attorney
General McReynolds with reference to
the merger dissolution.
He unprecedented Chairman w. f.
McConibs of the Democratic national
committee In a telephone conversation
with Chairman Charles ID. Hilles of the
Republican national committee. again
in ali endeavor to have Lauterbach
| figure in a deal between the two par
ties to halt certain legislative pro-
| posals.
He was charged with impersonating
Con sreesman Riordan, again over the
telephone, to John D. Archbold and
| General Counsel Elliott of the Stand
ard Oil company, in promise OF i'm
Inunity for the ''oil trust" and with
calling in person on S. w. Stroock of
The United Cigar Stores company to
promise it immunity from prosecution.
| He claimed to have been the man who
induced the Pujo committee to hear
William Rockefeller testify at Jekyll
island instead of at Washington, when
the latter was sick. and also claimed
that had his advice been followed he
could have kept the money trust"
committee from summoning J. Pier.
ront Morgan.
Takes Matter as Joke.
But Lamar passed all these off as
| Jokes" and not even the most sting.
Ing invective of the cross-examining
senators could shake his smiling as.
aurance. A loud guffaw of laughter
vas his most usual reply to the as
founded senatorial inquisitors. But
for the ingrown grin on Lamar's face
the days developments might have
l'een far more dramatic.
| Names and titles worried him not
lie refused to reveal his own name
admitting that Lamar was an alias. He