The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-08
WAVES IMMUNITY
BEFORE TEsT|FY|NC
Edward Lauterbach May Be
Prosecuted as Result of
Lobby Inquiry.
PROBERS ARE MERCH,EsS
New York Lawyer Is Pale
and Weak After Rigid
Examination.
PROBERS ARE MERCILESS
By Internations News Service

''a'i'l!dl NEWS Service
WASH lNGTON, July 7.-Possiblv
,,or,e p,oSe1uliols Tor perjury and obtaining
litoney ntitiy under false pretenses will be in.
stltuted in connection with tbe Iobb,,
inTyeesngallon by the senate committee
without prejudice the COMMITTEES TO-
Jdy optalned waiver of immunity from
EDWARD Lauterbach, the New" York
;;ddMyer VINO has been prominently
ID9entlhed IN the investigation with
DaVld Lamar, the Wall street operator
VINO mas confessed that he fraudulently
useo the names of prominent officials
oSer Ine telephone III order to further
Ihe interests of Mr.. Lauterbach. a
similar waiver was also received from
Lamar.
A sensational scene was enacted he.
fore the committee tonight when Reed
shought be detected Lamar prompting
MI Lauterbach. Pointing a finger at
Lamar, the senator shouted:
want this prompting stopped. and
II IT ism t stopped I will send you to
lall. Let US have no more of it,
Lamar Is Cynical.
Lamar smiled cynically, but Senator
Nelson, one of the Republican mem.
bers of the committee, interposed with
an observation that he did not like
browbeating methods.
Neither IS 1t fair to put this wit.
ness In false position he declared.
HIS nerves on raw edge, Lauterbach
himself leaped from his seat
81 am an American citizen,'' he
shouted, "and [ demand all the rights
of such. -
"Those rights will be accorded to the
witness, said Chairman Overman rap
ping for order.
During Senator Reed S cross -exami-
nation Senator Stone arose behind the
committee table, saying that he thought
that good time to ask some questions.
Shaking his finger at Lauterbach,
he demanded to know how it came
that after Lauterbach and Ledyard had
talked about Stone being the "inter-
mediary' in one conversation, Lauter-
bach suddenly became so cautious that
he suggested in a subsequent converse
tion the senator s name need not be
mentioned.
Lauterbach declared that Ledyard
was mistaken in his account Of the con-
versation. and that he had denied it
was correct earlier in the day, "Why,
it was not read TO you.' interrupted
Senator Reed.
Tragedy for Lawyer.
''Then deny it now" responded
the witness. bursting tnrOQgn the nre
Of rapid questions, Lauterbach de-
livered an eloquent description of his
course IN the affair
''It was n roaring farce for Lamar
and Ledyard and every one-eXcept for
me-to whom it was a deep tragedy, -
said he. 81 was known as a corpora
tion lawyer, and had gained the conf
dence Of great financial men, l wish
now / had attended to business OF u
smaller degree. ] wish / had become a
criminal lawyer-perhaps ] am Grim
inaI lawyer, if we heed the suggestions
made around this table.
''Do you think it good ethics for a
LAWYER to get back into the graces Of
old clents?" asked Senator Nelson.
"No. I do not. | think my course
was beneath me T believed Morgan
and other leaders did not think badly
Of me. Morgan received me in his
library and his firm then held a note
of mine for $4,000. 1t became due IN
few days. -.
LIauterbach told the committee La
mar had excused his course Hfalrly
satisfactorily to him. He said Lamar
had told him he acted as he did so that
Iedvard and The other conspirators
against Lauterbach and himself might
be publicly exposed.
The committee concluded I,anter-
bach : examination at 11:5Q o'clock
and adjourned until 1880 O'CLOCK to-
morrow morning.