Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-20
CHAIRMAN JOHNSON
ANSWERS MR.. GUIDE
Insists Latter Discussed Me-
mortal Bridge Before Dis.
trict' Committee.

Representative johnson of Kentucky.
chairman of the House District COM
mittee. made reply to William F. GUIDE
in the Lincoln Memorial bridge matter
in a three minute speech on the. floor
of the House today. Mr. Johnson said: :
Mr.. Speaker. it is certain that no
man in this House has taken, without
protest and without complaint, half
so much vilification from the papers
here In washington as 1 have. 1t is
with much reluctance that / refer to
the subject today. If the matter to
which 1 now wish to refer were only
a question between me and any one Of
these persistentiy malicious and ma
ligning papers, 1 would not notice it.
However, the Washington Evening Star
of date October 16, 1913, contained
what purported to be statement from
Mr.. William f. GUIDE, in which he is re-
ported as having said that he did not
know me. and tnat he had never seen
me, and, consequently, that he had not
to the contemplated memorial bridge
across the Potomac river The news
paper article to which l refer quotes.
Mr.. GUIDE as having made the follow
ing statement regarding the matter:
Mr.. Guides Denial.
- William f. GUIDE, to whom Repre-
sentative Johnson referred as authority
for the charge that the memorial bridge
was a real estate project Indignantly
denies that he said anything OF the kind,
or anything upon which such conclusion
could be predicated. ,'I do not know Mr..
nson" he said to The Star reporter,
.'and so far as know never saw him. /
certainly did not hold any conversation
with hum upon the subject of the memori-
al bridge, nor did appear before his
committee : in connection with the mat
ter
Mr.. GUIDE did appear before the Dis
trict committee, and made q statement.
At the time Of his appearance I was
present and presiding as chairman of
the committee. After. several persons
had addressed the committee Mr.. GUIDE
arose and commenced an address.
did not know who he was. I asked
several of the committee If they knew
him. All replied in the negative. II I
remember correctly he was then asked
his name, and he replied, Mr.. GUIDE
then asked several about me whether
or not he was the Mr.. GUIDE who had
recently become somewhat notorious as
a professional juror in land condemna-
tion cases. The answer made me was
that the Mr.. GUIDE then before us was
a brother of Juror Guide
1dent1ued as the Juror.
Il was told this in the hearing Of Mr..
Goodwin, a reporter for The Star, who
was present, and he leaned over to me
and said that the man then making
a statement to the committee was not
a brother of the Mr. GUIDE who had
been serving upon land condemnation
juries, but that he was the juror HIM
self. l. as well as other members of
the committee, asked Mr.. GUIDE several
questions relative to bridges across
the Potomac, including the contem-
plated Memorial bridge. until he made
the statement, in substance, that un-
less this memorial bridge was con-
structed the war between the north
and the south might not be forgotten.
When he made that statement the COM
mittee dropped him. and he retired.
'I say this much relative to the mat
ter that my felIow-members here may
be reassured: that Mr.. GUIDE has seen
me, and that he has discussed bridges
with lne--the Memorial bridge includ-
ed. With this brief statement 1 shall
dismiss the subject.