Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-03
California Fruit Growers Association
will be examined briefly.
Relates Conversations.


Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York,
counsel for J. p. Morgan & Co., and one
of the attempted victims of David Lamar
took the stand yesterday afternoon. He
was armed with almost a verbatim ac-
count of all conversations held with La
mar, who had represented himself as
Representative Palmer. AS he read the
record of the conversation, Lamar, sitting
nearby, laughed and nodded, saying
That's right" and slapping his leg with
enjoyment. Lamar contended that the
purpose of his impersonation was to Sc
cure reinstatement for his friend. Ed
ward Lauterbach, in the good graces of
the Morgan firm. Lamar declared he pre-
pared the resolution for the Stanley IN
vestigation of the steel trust; that 1t was
given to Henry D. Martin, who was f1g-
ured as the head of the Antitrust
League, who gave it to Representative
Stanley Subsequently. said Mr.. Lamar
it was introduced in the House by Mr.
Stanley with but a few technical changes
from it's original form.
The story evolved mainly through the
Ledyard testimony indicated that the lat
ter had been to various members OF the
Morgan firm to tell them of the steel
trust investigation resolution which La
mar had prepared, but that none OF the
Morgan firm members would pay any at
tention to the matter or make any effort
to stop it.
Mentions Speaker Clark.
Lamar paved the way for Lauter-
bach to call upon Ledyard, according
to the testimony given by Ledyard and
corroborated by Lamar. In an inter-
view February s, 1913, between Ledyard
and Lauterbach, the latter declared he
came direct from Senator Stone. who
represented Speaker Clark; and that he
had a proposal to make to the Morgan
interests for the heading off of con-
gressional activity against the steel
corporation.
Senator Stone took the stand before
Ledyard had finished and denounced
the whole thing as "A malicious fabri-
cation" and a common lie." Mem
bers of the Senate committee agreed
in the belief that it was a fabrication,
and Lamar laughingly clinched the
matter by breaking in and admitting
He admitted that he had prepared the
outline of the conditions that should
be submitted to the steel corporation
attorney. but he could give no explana
ton of his purpose, except that the
whole thing was a farce
Ledyard Not Fooled.
The story of how Lanyard had kept
Lamar on the telephone time after
time until he could locate the real
Representative Palmer in washington;
how he had once succeeded in getting
Palmer over the long distance phone
when the bogus Palmer" was on an
other phone. and how he had finally
traced the impersonator to a telephone
in Lamar's apartment on Riverside
Drive. held the committee and specta-
tors almost dumfounded for more than
an hour.
Laughing heartily and gesticulatinp
with both arms. Lamar later resumed the
stand to declare that the entire episode
described by Ledyard was farce, and
both he and Ledyard were conscious
throughout of the game the other was
playing.
Drafted a Program.
He informed the committee that II was
he who drafted the program and list Of
conditions which Lauterbach presented to
Ledyard as terms from legislators at
Washington to the Morgan people. He ex-
planned that he thought up the things the
democrats wanted accomplished. and
then concluded that if the Morgan people
would recant their old views and lend
support to all the democratic plans per-
hans the democrats would change their
views of the Morgan interests. He said
he did not know whether Mr. Lauterbach
regarded it as a joke or not.
Time and again Lamar repeated the
substance of these replies when asked by
senators what his purpose was i'm making
his oyertures. and what his idea was as
to the light in which the country would
view them.
Tells of Resolution,
The last subject touched upon was the