The Washington times., 1913-07-07

And he appealed to you as a friend
a the public?'
- I regret to say he did not. My affil-
la, ions were chiefly with corpora
~ i'd you represent Morgan & Com
"I had no retainer from the firm"
"a It you worked for them without
retail ler?'
II lad done much for Morgan &
Comm ny without retatner.
"An1 Lamar came to you with this
resoi,n ion because he knew you would
carry d he news to Morgan and you and
Eamar' could shake Morgan down or
some m oney:
q Imputation An Insult"
..Nothii Of the sort. The imputaton
is an i,,.a 1t and an outrage"
"Maybe. IT'S" said Reed. but you viii
have 70 "A ow us that 1t Is"
~ s,nrs Sc you just wanted to tell
Moyrsssn "a at a bad man Lamar was?"
s,rtssfA6N eriator Nelson.
..So sir -. lothing of the sort. 1 want
al tn FIR N = Morgan about the resoia-
lion aud N elieved that, If Mr.. Morgan
thn,,-fIr "a, =. resolution would be injurf-
hrs be ufn III ask me 10 ask Mr.. Lamar
t& Ujfi,drav "A t. and he would do So
.sSom were Il Fuet a disinrerested erson.
q sort. of nj II 'anthropist. as 1t Were"
sarcastaca,Iy n 1eried Reed.
Z "weIi , my I olives were pure, Sen
80 -, ana 4 aany others seem to be
asi.i, ,as,S th.S idea. of value. value.
WaIna Won DOM seem to realize that
r,a,s.s,,,s caa d. hiHKs without a mo-
'fIye And vol: 4 uggest blackman.
reseut the suaea stion. / was honest
= "a dissts,arearrSEa I'M thfs matter"
"Uitet did Nfar.a n say to your?
..tI.H ,s.farre,i u,,s to his partner. Mr..
a. "a what did N :. Steele say?'
He refused To N We anything 10 oo
with the NATTER.
But did LANAI I ave the resoi"'ioii
introduced?"
Not at that tin se-
Did you know L am ar was acting un-
der an assumed ma snt
Il never did"
workinq for p, ,bi ic Interest.
"Ycu say YOU felt, q rhdent OF your
.,t;Ii,y 20 sion this s; se, j inquiry, ire
spectiSe' OF David Lam; VI you told MI.
S,..Ie NJ Morgan & Company, You
.s,II dy ,y,;sD ND va, have in mind
stat,is,,, = tiiis INQUIRY tn "a ugh the Con-
gressmen?" demanded r, se o.: d:,
Again and again the Nithess We
hemently asserted that I. ~ 'usntt OF uIi,
fairly Influencing in any nshnsr sts NAG
ever entered his mind. u ne Gio not
attempt to explain how h e. could nave
called the inquiry off afte.7 Ihe resoIu-
ton was actually before the I touse huies
Committee, although repea Y oiy asAeu
to do so.
Il did not co
Did YOU plan to have Nor 4 an s.sx g Go; TO-
get the steel people to ytek DEL, "
the people things that had IN ssssla sassn
from them and did you tell q I. S'eete
THAT was my sole idea" u 1s"ered
Lauterbach.
The task before the. commi' Y ee Tor
clear the decks for the Mulh II In
To do this the c. nmit-
tee will finish with Edward L a utter
bach and David Lamar; will cor pie.e
the probe of the sugar lobby ex-
amining W. L. Bass and Charl s' ID;
w estcott. of Washington State. ana
A. b. Baldwin, Of Cleveland. q no.
and will throw the searchlight on tne
activities of the men who have SO, mt
wooden goods
ON wool, the witnesses will be VIII "a m
Whitman, of Boston, former presto "a ~
Of the American woolen Manufactur w
Association. and Thomas o. Marvin, ant
his brother, Wesley Bell Marvin, OF
B2sten. - -, ,,.,a sind. r,.l
porting interests TO influence rates Will
r. J.. Goertner. Of New York. repre-
senting an importing firm.
Penalty Is Provided.
70 meet the reported impersoHation
OF ConaFessrnen and other phslses Of
iyS1prorar inhuence told by David
Iainar Senator Cummins today intro
duced a bill penaHzing such actions.
hnpeffonation Of any Federal officer is
made a felony punfshable by a maxi.
nitim prison seYftence Of five years, e 100
fiIIe, Or BOTH The biz is carefully
drawn. and would provide a penalty for I
any such Misrepresentation as Lamar
sriiihnely adffE tied.
Another spcNon is aimed at the con-
dltions revealed BY Colonel Mulhall. and (
makes II an csfense to attempt i'm
properly to influx nee a member OF Con-
gresk, of to speak or write statements
thar such infiueIfde has been brought. {