The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-11
LAMAR, CRILLED,
DEFENDS HIS ACTS
Sought to Save Friend Lau-
terbaCh, He Says.
AN INTERESTING WITNESS

4 Am the One Villain In Wall Street."
He Declares Bitterly-"AlI the Rest
Are Actuated by the Highest Mo-
tives."
Washington, July a-The senate com
mittee investigating the Washington
lobby scandals again heard David La
mar, "the wolf of Wall street" Lamar
had requested a further hearing to
prove that neither Mr.. Lauterbach nor
himself had engaged together to get
money from j. p. Morgan & Co. or
other interests.
'I'll tell you what my motive was"
said Lamar, discussing the reason for
his association with Lauterbach. at
was either to force these men to recog.
nize the injustice of their attitude to,
ward Lauterbach and myself or force
them to come out into the open with
the charges of blackmail they had cir.
culated in New York for years against
both Of us. Ledyard and his associ
ates had ruined many men. and l was
determined they should not ruin me-"
Lamar said he knew Lewis Cass
Ledyard was trying to "trip him"
when he began telephoning in the
name of Representative Palmer and
then determined to "fix game on
Ledyard to force the financial inter
ests into the OPEN"
Corroborates Lauterbach-
Lamar's choice of adjectives in
speaking of various Wall street men
led senators to interrupt his statement
frequently. Whenever the committee
disapproved of something he said La
mar Immediately agreed with the OBJ
jector, to the great amusement of the
audience.
The committee finally decided to
hold Lamar strictly TO answering
questions. He testified he had told
Lauterbach that Senator Stone had
authorized him to make certain repre-
sentations to the Morgan firm and had
told Lauterbach that Senator Stone
said he represented Speaker Clark.
Lauterbach had testified that all his
information about Senator Stone and
Speaker Clark had come from Lamar.
Under a sharp fire Of questions La
mar insisted that his only object was
to bring about "tust such a situation
as this investigation
II am the one villain in Wall
street." said Lamar bitterly. "All the
rest are actuated by the highest mo-
tives and possess the highest ideals"
Lamar declared the whole thing was
"a major Wall street operation travel
Ing on parallel lines" and insisted he
was latter Ledyard, Cravath, Evarts,
Lovett and the Morgan steel trust,
Union Pacific and other interests" and
wanted to force them to an open at
tack. at was favortte method of
mine for producing an explosion when
wanted one," he added
His Basis For Charges.
Lamar testified that his charges of
an $S2,O00OOO forgery on the Union
Pacific books, which was emphaticaIly
denied by lawyers for the company art
the time he made them, were founded
on statistics from a manual and
Thomas Gibson, New York financial
writer. He had discussed with Lauter-
DhSh hlahilS5 tIft NIui SCo puDllS DtlOAS
the lobby committee.
The witness testified also of imper-
sonating Mr.. McCombs, chairman Of
the Democratic national committee
and Mr.. Hilles, chairman of the Re
publican national committee.
Senator Cummins wanted to know
IL Lauterbach asked for an explanation
Of any Of Lamar's plants which in
Volved his Nauterbach's) honor.
"The question of honor was not con.
sidered. 1t was entirely a Wall street
operation" returned Lamar.
The committee tried to bring out
whether Lamar had any stock in the
Steel corporation about the time the In
vestigation resolution was introduced
or held any Union Pacific or Southern
Pacific recently or now. Lamar denied
having any.