The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-07-11

rainier, hlOI0aE, mCCOInDb anu I1liISS
without q CULVER. and toyed with the
regulations of Louis D. Brandeis, j.
Pierpont Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
and all the high lights of Wall street
and Washington with irresponsible
fiippancy, refusing to take seriously
his impersonation of these men in the
most compromising negotiations. He
told of offering to barter away influ-
| ences at Washington with reckless
abandon that makes the most 'insidi-
Gus lobby" ever invented shrink into
modest nothingness, and then told the
committee in the same calm way that
he did it to induce Morgan & Co. ito
mend their ways and reform"
Lauterbach Denies.
Lauterbach has already denied most
of Lamar's stories, and the committee
is awaiting with some interest his YER
sion of the Lamar actiVieies, in the
face Of other evidence corroborating
Lamar. Messrs. Ledyard, Cravath and
Evarts told amazing stories of the
way in which Lamar had tried to i'm
pose on them. and then told of the
| strange visits ahey had had from Lau-
terbach. who. they said, was just as
free as Lamar in his offers to con-
troll Washington influences in their be-
| half. But they all spurned him, they
said, and claimed to the committee
that they recognized in the Lamar
Lauterbach procedure a gigantic con
spiracy to induce them to become part
ners in Illicit plots which could result
| only in blackmail
Lamar told the committee that he
wrote the Steel trust investigation
| resolution" which Congressman A. o.
Stanley of Kentucky introduced Two
years ago. and on which he launched
the famous investigation of that cor
poratiOn. Lamar testified that he turn
ed the resolution over to Henry D.
| Martin of the American Antitrust
league" who had turned It over to
Mr.. Stanley.
Finds Resolutions Easy.
ITO get a resolution introduced in
congress" he told the astounded com
mittee, is as easy as taking candy
from a babe
He admitted that he gave copy Of
this resolution to Lauterbach to be
shown to the steel trust officials be-
fore Representative Stanley intro
| duced it, but denied that this was in
| tended to blackmail them into pur-
chasing it's withdrawal.
How Lamar Was Trapped.
From a dramatic viewpoint. the
| most remarkable story of the day was
the testimony of Attorney Ledyard.
He told of the maneuvers Of Lamar
and Lauterbach, with crisp delinea-
ton of events that makes his evidence
How he trapped the pseudo Palmer
and caught Lamar in using a tele-
phone from the latter's home by the
simple expedient of having his wife
get the real Congressman Palmer on
the long-distance telephone in Penn
sylVania, while he spoke to Lamar at
New York, was but an episode, On
another occasion he had j. p. Morgan,
Jr., and another Morgan partner lis
ten on branch telephones while the
pseudo Palmer committed himself to
all kinds of proposals. Then he told
of the Bauterbach visit, when the lat
ter, he said, made a definite proposal
of just what the new administration
would do in behalf of the steel trust,
in staving off criminal prosecution
and a receivership, in return for the
employment of Lauterbach's services
and the use of Mr.. Morgan's political
| influence" with southern senators, and
a revelation Of the Morgan relations
! with Roosevelt
Denied by Stone.
These were reduced to writing, and
Mr.. Ledyard said that Lauterbach had
| declared they would be verified by
Speaker Clark and Senator Stone, by
whose authority he claimed to speak.
international peace was also to be
| favored by the Morgan firm, he said,
co molify Mr. Bryan.
Senator Stone entered the commit
! tee room before Mr.. Leydard left the
stand, having been informed of the
statements in which his name had
| been mentioned. Mr. Ledyard re-
| peated for him the alleged statements
of LaUterbach, that Stone had in
/ structed him to go to the Morgan in
! terests and the steel interests in be-
! half of Speaker Clark and make GER
| tain proposals, and the senator at
! once took the witness stand
Il swear without any sort of quail
| f1cation,' he declared, that the state
ment by Lauterbach is absolutely a
| fabrication l made no such state
ment to him or to any other human
| being I never talked with Speaker
! Clark upon any subject alluded to.
The whole thing is complete fabri-
cation"
Charges U. p. Forgery.
| During his testimony early in the
| day. Lamar interjected an attack upon
| the Union Pacific claiming there had
| been a Justification in the books of
| the company in 1901 by which nearly
| $50, 100000 had disappeared from its
! surplus.
Mr.. Cravath Immediately denied
| this, termfng Lamar liar" a char
| acterization which the committee in
sisted should be withdrawn Cravath
| declared the attack had been expected
| for several days as part Of a bear
for speculative purposes.
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