Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-07-11

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regulations OF Louis D. Brandeis, J..
Pierpont Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
and all the high lights Of Wall street
and Washington with irresponsible
! f1ippancy, refusing to take seriously
his impersonation of these men in the
most compromising negotiations. He
told of offering to barter away infu-
ences at Washington with a 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 activities, 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 they had had from Lau-
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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
1 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, lis 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 maneuyers of Lamar
and Lauterbach, with crisp delinea-
ton Of events that makes his evidence
read like pages from Conan Doyle.
How he trapped the pseudo Palmer
and caught Lamar IN using 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
! VI liz IduLCt OdCu SIS1t, WHEN lAC AoI
| ter, he said, made definite proposal
1 of just what the new administration
! would do in behals 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
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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,
to molly 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
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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
II swear without any sort of quail
fication." he declared, that the state
ment by Lauterbach is absolutely a
fabrication. / made no such state
ment to him or to any other human
being. / 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
$82, 100000 had disappeared from its
surplus.
Mr.. Crsvath Immediately denied
this, terming Lamar liar a char