Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-16
MORGAN |NvOKES AID OF
ROCKEFELLER MILLIONS
Seeks Standard Oil Help in Floating
Proposed Billion Dollar
Loan.
GETS sCANT ENCOURAGEMENT
Move Only One of Series Of Sensa-
tionaI Developments During Day.
Lives OF Members of Commission
\ Threatened.
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Especial to The Times Dispatch
NEW YORK. September 15.-J. Pier
: oont Morgan to-day invoked the aid
II the Rockefeller millions.in floating
he proposed billion-dollar war loan to
he entente allies.
1t lie understood that he received scant
encouragement, and In Standard Oil
circles tonight the belief was ex-
pressed that the Rockefellers will not
participate In the loan.
Such result would be a severe set
pack. and might even turn the tide
isatnst the project Mr.. Morgan called
II No. 26 Broadway early in the after
noon and went TO the Office OF John d.
Rockefeller. Jr., on the fourteenth floor,
where no remained in conference with
nc junior Rockefeller for half an hour.
No statement could be obtained as TO
what passed between them
Mr.. MorSan's move TO put tho Rookie
eller millions on the side OF Great
3ritain and Franco was one Of a Sc
les of sensations of developments with
he loan negotiations during the day
which indicated the approach of a
.risis.
More than Atty threatening letters,
was learned. have been received by
members OF the Franco British Com
mission. here to negotiate the loan and
mere has been doubling of the guards
Sho have accompanied Thorn ever since
he!r arrival in America.
SO serious has the situation become
hat the clearing house in Cedar Street
'as been abandoned by the commission
IS place Of meeting on the advice
u the police authorities. The meeting
'iace Is now kept secret: no two mem
| 'ers OF the commission appear on the
treet together. and every member VEN
1 urins outside OF his hotel has the pro-
ection OF two detectives. In this con-
'ection there was rumor tonight
nat the Canadian government might
i invite the commission to transfer its
headquarters to Ottawa
;EHMANY ALREADY
HAS ENTERED PROTEST
According to information tonight.
moreover Germany has already entered
protest against tho loan with Sec
etary OF State Lansing at Washing
on.
Mr. Lansing has been informed that
Germany has made earnest efforts 10
MAINTAIN friendly relations with tho
'ni'ed states, but that II this loan Is
!oated mere as national loan the
icEman government will find II difficult
/ OF 10 regard the fact as 4 deliberatel
'hlriencly act on the part OF the PEG.
lie or this country. Termination O,
lplomatc relations might even follow
he informant declares
AT the Standard Oil offices this after.
Don IT vas impossible to secure ever
admission that Mr.. Morgan had
listed Mr.. Rockefeller. But the Inter
'ational News Service is prepared &c
urnish ample proof IL IL be needed O,
ne fact The TWO sons of America.
most eminent financial kings remained
ogether behind closed doors for NOR,
han half an hour, during which tim,
ir Morgan laid before Mr. Rocketelle,
he plans for floating the billion doI,a
oan.
II Is an evidence OF the tremendous
ontract Mr. Morgan has Undertaken
Perhaps. that he condescended to yisi,
Dung Mr.. Rockefeller. The relations
'etween the Morgan and the Rookie
eller groups have been so strained in
| ne past that the mere visit OF a Nor
IAN to Rockefeller is an event In the
i financial world.
The outcome OF the negotiations for
ne loan will develop whether Mr..
rockefeller was won over to-day by
lr. Morgan. a close associate Of the
eockerellers tonight. however, made
] hese observations to representative
the international News Service.
toCkEFELLER WOULD NOT
| GRIEEE IF LOAN FAILS
! judged by the past no tears would
shed II Mr.. MorGan's efforts failed.
NJ is fact easily aScertained that Mr..
h tsockefellcr. Jr.. declined to have ANY,
| ming 10 do with the French loan when
was hoated, and he has very clearly
ehhed ideas with regard TO the ethics
furnishing money for the purcha Sc
arms and ammunition.
/ II IL De pointed out that this money
| nay not be spent for arms and am
/ 7unition, II may be pertinently asked
/ Tho is to say England and France have
OF to spend money for munitions. and
H.: is splitting hairs to say they will
4 pend The proceeds of this loan for
] ood supplies, etc, and use money al
eady on hand for munitions. In that
connection, there is this fact with re-
ard TO the proposed loan. which per-
III APPS is not understood. Great Britai in
II as already secured credit of $500.
/ 10000 and France credit of $40
4 100000 from the Guarantee Tresut and
4 ther financial institutions in this
L ountry. That money has been spent
4 Or ammunition. And one Of the first
ses to which the billion dollar loan
II Ill be put will be to wipe that credit
II lready received.
H me informant discussing the news
H iaper reports that well-known Ger
ian financiers in New York might par
/ ttcipate in the loan, said:
Al can scarcely credit that For in
lance. 1 know OF the existence of a
after In Jacob H. Schih's own hand
Hriting In which he condemns the
'hole prospect OF this billion dollar
oan. and from the standpoint Of a