The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-09
He Still Believes End
Justified Means
He Used.
BUT TWO REASONS
FOR HIS DUPLICITY
Wished to Bring Enemies Into
the Open" and Restore Friend
Lauterbach to Good Standing
with Interests" s"-Commit-
tee Unable to Force Dam
aging Revelations.

Washington, July s.-The Senate
look at Wall Street to-day through
the spectaclcs of David Lamar. The
dappnr operator on the bear side, who
admits that he banded about in the
market place the names of men high
In Congress. took the committee com
pietcly into his confidence For all The
machinations he contrived there WERE
after ALL he sworc. but two reasons.
fle wished to cause an "explosion"
which would bring the Wall Street men
whom he felt antaEonistic to him into
the OPEN, and he wished to insure tho
re c-employmcnt OF Edward I.autcrbach,
his lawyer friend. who had fallen into
disfavor with the mighty OF the street
Although the committee tried to de-
velop that there might have been some
other consideration involved, Lamar
denied such an allegation as often as
II was made. He was on the stand for
several hours. and although five Self
ators welded the scalpel at various
times. they uncovered nothing that
Lamar did not wish to reveal. Time
after time he seemed to be on the verge
OF some admission, to which patient
questioning had brought him, but he
vccred away and no persuasive or law
ycr-likc threatening could bring him
back again. He was only playing Wall
Streets game, he said. when he made
such frequent use OF the telephone and
talked about what might be done In
Washington through prominent mem
bcrs OF Congress. 1t was the game he
had known most OF the twenty five
years he had been in the street. he
said, but he was through with 1t now.
He was sorry for the publicity that
had been given TO the reports OF in
tiuence in Congress, but except for that
no thought that the end justified The
I TT ,.@1 l,aI rn1
he added, and his enemies had been
dragged into the open to prove charges
circulated for many years In the fnan-
cial district against himself and Lau-
tcrbach He summed up his whole story
in a few woI ds when he said:
1T was the Wall Street game / was
playing. In Wall Street YOU don't act
like YOU do on a New Jersey farm"
Later. he added bitterly: Il am the
only villain In Wall street All the
others are actuatcd by the highest mo-
tivcs and possess the highest ideals"
Their GriiiInE Finished.
Lamar's aXamination was finished
to-day. and both he and I.autcrbach
were allowed TO go. with the under
standing that If wanted they should
appear again.
With their departure the committee
took up sugar lobbying again for three
hours with Il short excursion into the
land of the wool lobby. Charles ID.
Westcott. a Washington attorney, who
lives in cuba. took up the sugar story
again He told OF an unsuccessful eff
fort he made 10 get Cuban planters TO
PUT up $4,000 for the expenses OF the
free sugar campaign in Washington to
offset the efforts Of the antifree sugar
people. He declared that his EFFORT
failed after he had believed 1T success
fully launched. and gave IL as his opin-
ion that the sugar trust had been re-
sponsible. He said the trust accom-
plished this end by its influence with
Cuban banks. which could force the
growers to do what they wished by
refusing to extend them necessary
credit. He added that the Agrarian
League, to which every Cuban grower
feels obliged to belong. was dominated
by the trust" and that acting in COM
pliance with the Combines wishes. 1t
had opposed a free sugar campaign.
Westcott was put through n search
ing cross-eNamirat tion by Senator Cum
Minis about these statements. He
(Coatinuel Ola second Fagc)