Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-07-11
LAMAR ASTOUNDS
LOBBY COMMITTEE
Wall Street Operator Makes an
Amazing Confession.
BIG FIkANclERs DECEIVED
Witness Tells of Impersonating Con-
uressr1en in Telephone Talks
Charges Union Pacific For
gerry Of sa2,0oo,ooo.

Washington, July 5.-The lobby"
Snnuisition OF me United States SEN
ate has taken sensational turn.
With barrassed assurance, Da-
yjd Lamar, better known on Wall
street as THE Wolf" told the senate
committee how he had impersonated
Democratic national leaders in tele-
phonic offers to some of the most i'm
portant figures I'm the nations flnan-
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 will
resume the stand tomorrow to tell his
side of the melodramatic story that
was rehearsed today.
It was an amazing tale throughout,
and Lamar seemed almost to boast of
his offense. Yet the committee has
found no way In which it can recon-
mend punishment for Lamar's self
confessed fraud, either under the
federal statutes or those of the state
of New York. Neither have the men
whom he tried to defraud been able
to suggest penalty.
There is still a grave possibility of
perjury proceedings. however. in the
light Of discrepancies In the testi-
mony
Confession 10 Rrazen.
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
]. p Morgan & Co, and boldly de-
MED that they intended blackmail of
any kind. With reckless bravado he
referred to his impersonations alter
nately as fraud" and "trickery," and
then as Joke" and farce"
But he told an unabashed tale OF
having impersonated Congressman A..
Mitchell Palmer of PENNSYLVANIA to
Lewis Cass Ledyard of counsel for
the Steel corporation and the Morgan
Arm, as the preliminary to a proposal
by which Lauterbach was to control
the attorney generals Office, to pre-
vent criminal prosecution OF the steel
trust, under special dispensation from
Speaker Clark, Senator Stone, Robert
j. Henry. William ]. Bryan and 9TH
ers. He admitted there was no basis
for the proposal, and that he and
,Lauterbach never had talked to these
gentlemen. But Senator Stone de-
aounced him as dirty trickster" in
ahe committee room and told him he
ought to be In the penitentiary
Startling Tales unfolded.
Then followed Ter tales just as
startling. Lamar lupersonated Con-
gresham Daniel ]. Riordan of New
York to make R. S. Lovett, Paul d.
cravath and Maxwell Evarts OF the
Union Pacific believe Lauterbach
could control the work of Attorney
General McReynolds with reference to
the merger dissolution.
He impersonated Chairman w. F.
McCombs of the Democratic national
committee in a telephone conversation
with Chairman Charles d. Hilles of the
Republican national committee, again
IN an, endeavor to have Lauterbach
ngure in deal between the two par
ties to halt certain legislative pro-
Dosals.
He was charged with impersonating
Congressman 2iordan. again over the
telephone, to John D. Archbold and
General Counsel Elliott of the Stand
ard Oil company, in a promise of i'm
munity 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
lie claimed 70 have been the man who
anduced the PaJo committee to hear
William RDcEefeller testify at Jekyll
ISLAND instead of at Washington, when
me latter was sick, and also claimed
mat had hts advice been followed he
could have kept the money trust"
committee from summoniug ]. Pier
Qont Morgan.
Takes Matter as Joke.
But Lamar passed all these off as
JOKES" and not even the most sting
4hg lnvectfye OF the cross-examining
senators could shake his smiling as
Suranee. loud guffaw of laughter
was ms most usual reply to the as
.ouhued senatorial inquisitors. But
sor the sRgrown grin on Lamar's face
tne days developments might have
oeen far more dramatic.
Names and titles worried him not.
ne refused TO reveal his own name.
admitting that Lamar was an alias. He