The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-03

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stenographer on the line making
copy of the talk.
Il put everything into it / could.
| Lamar said II think l offered him tn,
entire government: l may nave let
the President out"
Lamar set the committee into laugh
ter with his narrative of how he mas
queraded Palmer; lectured Ledyars
because he did not go to church ans
told what remarkable things Lauter
bach could do at Washington for tn,
Morgan firm
Il told him that the defiant attitud,
of the Morgan firm toward the demo
cratic administration in Congress ha,
much to do with the decline in tn
value of Morgan securities" Lama
continued. Il called attention to tn
money trust and other investigation
and urged Mr.. Ledyard to employ Lau
terbach."
You were trying to convince Ledyar
that Lauterback was sort of John tn
Baptist for the Morgan house, senate
Nelson suggested
That's 1t exactly" Lamar answered
Called Up Office
Then l called up Mr. Palmer,s offlc
in Washington Lamar said, "and foun,
he would be in Bethlehem, Pa. the mex
Sunday. Then l called Ledyard and toll
him to call Palmer there. / had done al
| wanted to; gotten an interview fo
Lauterbaeh with Ledyard, and I didn'
want Mr.. Palmer injured. l wanted t.
clear the atmosphere and prevent a pos
sible scandal for Palmer"
The deception was revealed to Paine
and Ledyard that Sunday.
Senator Overman insisted on knowin
If Lamar ever impersonated any othe
| congressman.
"Oh, Lord, l may have" exclaimed La
mar.
He digressed from his narrative to de
nounce the Pacific dissolution plan TIL
exchange of Southern and Baltimore an
Ohio stock he characterized as a travesty
, saying the Attorney General had bee
! dereict in his duty.
/ Witness said his plan was for the Unio
| Pacific to buy the Central Pacific wit
Southern Pacific stock.
i Senator Cummins questioned Lama
sharply and in the exchange witness tes
titled he was Methodist and that Lama
was not his original name. He decline
: to give that.
, II have had several Names" he said.
Alleged Forgery
II Lamars statement before the Senat
lobby committee regarding the allege
forgery of the $s2,000O00 on the Union Pa
cifie books in 1902 was substantially a
| follows: A 81
In the summer, some of 1901, somebod
forged the books of the Union Pacii
Railroad company to the tune of So, 600
600. Who it was I don't know. As
consequence the men connected with TIL
company Immediately thereafter got $50
100000 in cash within 80 days as the pre-
ceeds of that forgery and that $s2, 600, ,Ot
was the fulerum through which all thes
giant monopoles and conspiracies wer
linked on the lines of railroads servin
the territory from the Rocky Mountains t
the Gulf of Mexico and from the Pacin
ocean to the Missouri river. Moreover
1t was the fulcrum through which thi
group of men, Hartman to the extent c
s150,000.0OO or 5000, 900, ,00O Kuhn. Loeb
Co., and one or two others to the ex
tent Of s50,00000O or 100000, 900 additiona
We're enabled to acquire those immens
fortunes.
THE first consolidated balance sheet O
the Union Pacific Railroad company a
of June 80. 1900. contained for the firs
time the evidences and results of wha
had been going on from June 30, 1898. I
June 80, 1900. and this is what had hap
pened."
| In the reorganization the old Unio
Pacific had lost control OF what is know
as the oregon properties. They consiste
of the oregon Short Line Railroad com
pany and the Oregon Railroad and Navi
cation company.
Recovered Securities
Between the dates mentioned the nev