The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-03
A prosperous lookin


With entire abandon, arousing the
committee to laughter at times by ms
naive admissions, he told Of his I'M
presentations, his participation in at
tempts to influence Wall street opera
tions and his association with Edward
Iauterbach, a New York lawyer, IN
efforts to have Lauterbach retained
by the Morgan firm, the Union Pacific
and other great interests to head Oft
congressional activity in Washington.
He telephoned to financiel men and
lawyers in the names of Representative
Palmer and Representative Riordan
He assumed the guise of Chairman Nc
Combs of the democratic national COM
mittee to telephone to Chairman Hilles
of the republican national committee.
Louis Cass Ledyard Of New York, coun-
sci for the Morgan firm, was one of his
attempted victims. Mr.. Ledyard came
to the witness stand today armed with
almost verbatim account of all the
conversations held with Lamar, who
had represented himself as Congress
man Palmer As he read tbs record Of
the conversations. in themselves uil
usual In their tone, Lamar, sitting
nearby, laughed and nodded, saying
that's right" and slapping his leg
with apparent enjoyment.
The purpose Of his impersonations,
Lamar continued, was to secure rein
statement for his friend Lauterbach in
the good graees of the Morgan firm.
Members of the committee tonight de-
manded that Lamar remain in Wash
ington for temperance tomorrow.
Edward Lauterbach, who recently tes-
titled before the committee was re-
called from New York by telegraph to-
night. and Henry B. Martin, local man
who has figured as head of the anti
trust league" was also subpoenaed to
appear.
Lamar declared he prepared the reso-
luton for the Stanley investigation Of
the steel trust; that it was given to
Martin. who gave 1t TO Congressman
Stanley. subsequently, he said, 1t was
introduced in the House of Represen-
tatives by Mr.. Stanley with but a few
.'technical changes from its original
form.
Denies Ext0rtiOn
Lamar denied that there had been
ANY attempt at extorting money from
any of the New York financial men.
The story evolved during the day,
mainly through the Ledyard testimony
indicated that the latter had been to
various members of the Morgan firm
to tell them of the steel trust inves-
tigaton resolution which Lamar had
a. f,.af hot Of ha
gan firm members would pay any at
tention TO the matter or make any eff
fort to stop 1t.
Lamar paved the way for Lauder
bach to call upon Ledyard, according
to testimony given by Ledyard and
corroborated by Lamar In an inter-
view February s, 1918, between Led
yard and Lauterbach, the latter de-
clared he came direct from Senator
Stone, who represented Speaker Clark
and that he had a proposal to make
to the Morgan interests for the head
Ing off of Congressional 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 common le" Members
OF the Senate committee agreed in the
belief that 1t was a fabrication and
Lamar laughingly clinched the matter
was no truth in the allegations He
admitted that he had prepared the out
line of the conditions that should lie
submitted to the Steel corporation at
= torney, but he could give no explain
alton of his purpose, except that the
whole thing was a farce.
Traced Impersonator
The story of how Ledyard had kept La
mar on the telephone time after time until
he could locate the real Congressman Pal
mer In Washington; how he had once sue
ceeded in getting Palmer over the long
distance telephone when the bogus Pal
mer'' was on another phone; and how he
had finally traced the impersonator to a
telephone in l.amats apartment on River
side drive, held tn, committee and spec
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