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Displayed as Prime
Instigator of Money
Trust Investigation. /,
ALSO HAD HAND
IN RAILROADLAW
Said to Be Man Who KILLED
Snakes" in Taft's Bill of 1911.
Head of Antitrust League
Tells of His Dealings |
With Modern Mum :;
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washington. July 3.--Lamar, tho
magnificent" as the public benefac-
tor who killed the snakes in the Taft
railroad bin of 1911. was paraded be-
fore the Senate lobby Investigators to-
day.
Likewise. this modern David was
displayed as one Of the prime instiea-
tors OF the money trust investigation
There was a plethora of detail re-
latfng to the activities of the wall
street Munchausen in drawing the reso-
luton on WI the steel trust in
vestigation was based. and getting tho
Stanley committee safely launched
and a sensational note was struck
which Is to be closely investigated. that
a least two men who testified in
recent congressional Investigations
one Kaufman. n witness before the
Stanley committee, and one Boiand,
who gave important testimony at the
coal trust hearings-have since been
financially ruined by way of punish
ment for opposing the interests.
New Lobhics Disclosed.
The work of the National Antitrust
League was also brought to the at
tention OF the committee and finally.
three new lobbies were shown at work,
viz: the pacific railroads the Navy
is to be said, however. that neither the
members of the committee nor any OF
the spectators were deeply impressed
by the charge of Henry b. Martin,
secretary of the Antitrust League, that
the Navy League, of which T. p Nor
gan. his brother-in-law Herbert Sat
terlce, anc Colonel Robert NJ. Thomp-
son are active members, Is mere
adjunct Of the steel trust
After yesterdays revelations, to days
testimony was rather mild, though
Lewis Cass Ledyard took the stand and
repeated his statement that ]. Pierpont
Morgan had told him Edward Lauter-
bach had been to him with copy of
teh resolution proposing the steel trust
investigation. and IT was shown by the
testimony of Martin that the resolu-
tion. after having been prepared, was
held for a considerable length of time
before being introduced.
David Lamar was present, nut silent
to-day; smiling In his sinister insin-
uating fashion, and seemingly proud of
the sensation which he mas created.
The committee has instituted
life OF Lamar. Especially does 1t want.
TO know his real name. and his rea-S
sons for stoutly declining to make tt
known. He was permitted to return
to New York tonight. but at the proper
time he is to be confronted with Lau-
t'i pdSI ttuN cNploSfOu is lOOkeu
for.
Martin Is Called.
Mr.. Lcdyard was on the witness stand
only about three minutes this morning
and then Martin was called. He is
short. ken-fa man, with black
mustache and gold glasses. He is
II familiar figure In Washington. where
he represents the Antitrust League
the general impression or which is that
1t is an organization existing largely
on paper. though Mr.. Martin claimed
for II to-day a powerful influence in
fighting the corporation and trust In
terests OF the nation. He declined TO
give n list of the members. or to go
into the financial concerns OF the or
ganizntion in any detailed way on the
ground that, as 1t Is engaged in a Bit
ter war againot the money power, to
maAe public tha names OF those con-
cerncd I'm the work would be to invite
disaster fer them.
1t was In this connection that he in
stanced the cases OF Kauffmann and
Boland. who We're ruined because OF
their activity against the trusts.
Mr. Martin detailed the work that the
league has carried on for the past
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