The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-02-25
SAYS BRANDEIS
AIDED HARTMAN
Fight Against Fish Helped By
Railway Prosecutor,
Says Catehings.
GOLFERS HIRED HIM
Fl. T. Richardson States Brandeis
Used "Unprofessional Tactics" in
Gillette Safety Razor Case.

Three controversies with which Louis
ID. Brandeis took part as counsel and
in connection with which he Is accused
of unprofessional conduct were subjected
to scrutiny yesterday by the Senate COM
mittee investigating his fitness for ap-
pointment to the Supreme Court
witnesses testified concerning his ac-
tivities in the 'Ballinger-Pinchot inyes-
tigation, in the fight of the late E. II:
Hartman to GUST Stuyvesant Fish from
the presidency of the Illinois Central
Railroad. and in the litigation involving
the affairs OF the Gillette Safety Razor
Company.
Mark Sullivan, editor of Golfers Week
ly. said Mr.. Brandeis had been retained
by that publication to represent l. r.
CLAWS in the Ballinger-Pinchot investi-
CATION. In reply to the charge that Mr..
Brandeis had desired to conceal the fact
that he was so employed, Mr.. Sullivan
said there had been no secrecy in the
matter and that he discussed freely the
fact that Mr.. Brandeis had been re-
tanned as counsel.
WaddilI Catchings, an attorney, of New
York. told the committee the story of
the fight of the late Z. II. Hartman in
1907 to GUST Stuyvesant Fish from the
presidency of the Illinois Central and
the stockholders meeting. Mr. Fish. ac-
cording to Mr.. Catchings testimony. who
had been ousted by a majority of the
board of directors, among whom was E.
II. Hartman, was seeking reinstatement.
and attacked the majority of the board
on the ground that they were Mr. Har-
riman's puppets" Both sides carried
on the fight up to the meeting of the
stockholders and sought to obtain proxies
to gain their ends.
Finally He Consented.
The majority members of the board en-
ployed the firm of Sullivan and Crom-
well to obtain proxies. They sent Mr.
Catchings to Boston to confer with the
firm of Brandeis, Dunbar and Nutter.
Mr.. Nutter, said Mr.. Catchings, said that
he could not undertake the campaign un-
less Mr.. Brandeis, who was then con-
Quoting a fight upon the proposed merger
OF the New England railroads, approved
OF 1t.
II then laid the matter before Mr.
Brandeis," added the witness TT was
the hardest interview l ever had in my
life. 1 argued that it would be of advan-
tage to the Illinois Central to have con-
nections with the Southern Pacific and
the Union Pacific and the roads Mr.. Har-
riman represented. Finally Mr.. Bran
uSis gave ms approval anu MS uTTn aCleO
as the New England agents In the mat
ter"
Henry T. Richardson, OF Brookline
Mass. and Henry W. Williams, testified
concerning the part played by Mr. Bran
deis in certain litigation growing out
of the affairs of the Gillette Safety Razor
Company.
Richardson testified that Mr. Brandeis.
while acting as counsel for four directors
of the corporation. including Mr.. Gillette
and two others, Joyce and Curran. car
ried out scheme In behalf of Gillette
to organize a holding company and GUST
Joyce and Curran. When his apparent
Inconsistency was called to his attention.
said Mr.. Richardson, Mr.. Brandeis said
that he was acting only for Gillette in
the latter transaction. Mr.. Williams COR
roborated testimony regarding this phase
Of the investigation charging Mr.. Bran
deis with "unprofessional conduct in at
tempting to keep from interested counsel
certain details of the transactions.