Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-16
HOUSE APPOINTS
LOBBY PROBERS
Seven Members Named to InveS-
tigate MuIhaII Charges.
HEARINGS ARE TO BE PUBLIC
Flnis j. Garrett Of Tennessee Is APP
pointed Chairman of InquistionaI
Body-RepresentatIve Denies
Allegations of Colonel.

Washington, July 10.-The house
has voted unanimously to direct a
special committee of seven members
TO investigate the Mulhall lobby
confession" and all other details of
legislative activities that may be dis
closed.
Representative Finis j. Garrett Of
Tennessee was appointed chairman of
the committee by Speaker Clark.
The senate lobby" committee is
still busy with the sugar and wool
lobbies, and is not expected to reach
the Mulhan confession" before next
week
The other members named on the
Garrett committee are Representa-
tives Cyrus Cline of Indiana, ]. ]. Rus
sell of Missouri and S. J. Roddenber-
ry of Georgia, Democrats; w. H. Stat
ford of Wisconsin and Frank B. Willis
Of Ohio, Republicans, and John l. No
Ian of California, Progressive.
Representative James T. MeDermott
Of Chicago, whose name has figured in
various details of the Mulhall confess
sion delivered a speech in the house
denying the Mulhall charges.
Washington, July 10.-David Lamar,
the wolf Of Wall street." ended his
testimony before the lobby" commit
tee of the United States senate Tues
day by laying before it his private in
depreciation of the wall street code
Of morals Lamar made melodra-
matte stage villain as he mingled his
revelations of his strange ethics with
glib talk about his souls salvation"
and his new found penitence.
Ineffectually members of the COM
mittee sought to trap Lamar into
some admission that would indicate
that he or his associates had profited
from his operations either through
bearing" the stock market or other
wise
Then what were the motives? First,
he wanted to get these people"-Lew.
is Cass Ledyard, the Morgans ana
Kuhn. Loeb & Co.-to recognize tho
folly and Injustice of t. cir attitude to-
ward him and Mr.. Lauterbach. As an
alternative he wanted to bring the
whole matter to an open issue by an
explosion" which would develop to the
country the feeling against Lauter-
bach and himself through an invest1ga-
ton somewhere. Things had come out
just as he had planned.
Washington, July 9.-The senate
, lobby investigating committees exam
nation of Edward Lauterbach Monday
wound up in a verbal quarrel. In
which Senators Reed of Missouri and
Nelson Of Minnesota were the disput-
ants
Admitting his intimate assocIatloT
with Lamar" the wolf of Wall street,
and admitting also the truth of much
OF the damaging testimony given
against him on the witness stand last
week by Lewis Cass Ledyard and 9TH
ers of high standing in the financial
world and legal profession, Mr.. Lauter-
bach confessed to Senator Stone and
to the members of the lobby commit
tee that he had been duped by his
friend-'Lamar."
He said it was true that he had
posed before Mr.. Ledyard as speaking
for Senator Stone and Speaker Clark
with regard to a general political ad-
iustment Of affairs" in which the great
corporations of the country were vital
ly interested. He laid all the blame on
Lamar"