The Pulaskian., 1917-09-28
GERMAN PLOT TO
 SWAY CONGRESS
 AsTOUHD5 NATION
Revelations by Secretary of State Lansing Bring Storm
 Of Denunciation.
BERHsToRFF WAS PAYMAsTER
aassssssdor's Request for s5o.0oo Re. asrded as Indicating That Money Had Been Used Before for
 Same Purpose.

waghington.-M Members of congress. government officials and members Of fse diplomatic corps have not yet re covered from their amazement at the azEoandlng revelations made by See TzsaFy of State Lansing of the plans S6 Count von Bernsforf. former Ger maz ambassador to the United States. fs expend SJ0000 in an effort fo infiu- eace congress and prevent this coun- sfy from going to war with Germany.
 The revelation Of this plot. follow iag sfe disclosures Of other cases of German dupIieity in it's diplomatic re ssfdons with the United States and setsey countries. had the effect Of sweeping away such antwar propa- Ehsda as may still have been alive in fhe national capital and giving more rnnvIBciHg evidence of the hostile acts w1sies forced the United States into fhe Bar
 How Plot Was Revealed.
 Here is the statement of Secretary Lansing:
 sTsse secretary Of state issues the following statement from Ambassador Berastorff to the Berlin foreign office. dated January %. 1917:
 T request authority to pay out up 10 SJe.000 fiffy thousand dollars). in order, as on former occasions. to fnfu- enre congress through the organiza- tiea yon know of which can perhaps prevent war;
 I am beginning in the meantime D act accordingly.
 In the above circumstances. q pulp ne official German declaration in fa- vor Of Ireland is highly desirable ln ersser to gain the support Of Irish in- ssenee here 2
 Capital Stunned by Revelations.
 The publication of this letter ap- parcntIy revealing the fact that Bern sse~H had previously influenced congress through the organization you krow Of" actually stunned the cap ftel.
 g,n the floor of the house, congress- nsea were denounced as suspicious" :" II was openly stated by some that they beiieved their colleagues had received German money.
 According to Representative Tom Helsin. Alabama, he believes he could aasse f3 or IA men in the two houses of congress who have acted suspi- ctousiy.
 TeSs of Ohio and Howard of Geor- gsa both declared the German propa- gaada worked directly, with money changing hands and reaching govern meHf officials.
 Additional startling revelations of the free use of money by the Ger Inan government to sustain the Ger znna propaganda Tn the United States wifi follow Lansing's exp e.
 These revelations. 1t was indicated. VIII corroborate the indictment of fse German embassy as the disburs- lag bureau for propaganda. Certain Ivish-Ameriean agitators in the coun- try who have allied. themselves with hostile German-Americans may expect tc be the next objects of the govern meRt's attack.
 convicts Count Bernstorff
 The shower of indictments of Ger rna ciandestine pre-war activities in ssais country Is relied upon by the siafe department te set at rest all dost,t remaining in any quarters that the German government officially 4g. ~or4t spiqed fiagrantly, as asserted in Presi- dent Wilson's war proclamation, to d. ride the American people on the is- ssseS If the war. Il Is believed by the ssaae department that public opinion. after digesting the contents of the series Of exposes, may be depended nyon 10 deal effectively with those wtsD became the catspaws of the Ger pnau embassy
 The message was decoded by Scot land Yards experts after vain at feSTpts by Americans.
 Expulsion might have been yon Bezrstorff's fate as remotely as 1915 If the state department had then known ns much about the secrets of the Ger man code as 1t knows today.
 Other Shots to Follow.
 Qane by one the exhibits in the eyi- sseace iii the case, 1t was said at the state department, will be given to the rngshic.
 That Americans in high public posi- ssDnS lent themselves to the German eusbassy's plan to split congress on gsse question of war, further decoded ssessages in the possession of the gov srrasent are expected to demonstrate exclusively.
 More than one of these well-known persons has been under public sus- gax8on. but proof of their complicity with the German government has not come forth. It is known that evi- 6nace of the most damaging and con. sfn9zng character has finally been sbtained by the agents of the govern. neszf
 Vice President Marshall made a 4