Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-25
WASHINGTON HAS
DAMNING PROOF
PLOT WIDESPREAD
State Department Has List of Men Who Received German
Money for Passport Frauds and Destruction OF Muni-
ton Plants, Together With Evidence to
Counteract Denals of Those Implicated.
(By Associated Press.)


Washington, Sept. 24.-While there
is no indication of what viii be the
State apartments next disclosure OF
German intrigue in America or else
where, it is known that disclosures as
sensational as, any yet published are
being held in reserve and may be
made at any time.
One of the things the State de-
partment has is list OF persons who
received German money in the pass
port frauds, the munitions plots and
practically all the other activities OF
German intrigue here which took
place between the beginning of the
war in August, 1914, and the entry
of the United States into the con-
flict. The list is said to contain
scores of names and the amounts Of
money represented run very high.
From time to time the department
also probably will make public cer-
tain evidence to dispose Of the de-
mails Of those who have been involved
in the disclosures already made.
WILD SESSION IN HOUSE.
The house had wild and noisy ses-
sion today over the disclosure that
Count Won Bernstorff, while German
ambassador here, asked his govern
ment to authorize the expenditure Of
$50,000 to influence congress. Y
Representative Norton of North
Dakota attacked Representative He
fin Of Alabama, who was quoted in
local newspaper as saying he could
name dozen congressman who had
been acting suspiciously."
Hefin denied that the interview at
tributed to him was correct.
Representative Hcfiin then made an
explanation, amid food of Interrupt
tions, ranging from groans to parlia-
mentary objections, complaining to
the last that he was denied full
hearing.
II haven't said that any member
got any money from the Won Bern
storff fund" he said. what did
say was that there were rurnors that
there was a gambling house in Wash
ington, run by German, where paci-
fits and slackers and others in SYM
pathy with the German cause won
easily.
"If the house decides to name an
investigating committee and asks me
to name the men that / think have
not been loyal, and have not been
and are not now standing by the COM
rnander-i r-in-chief, I'll name them. I
can't prove anything. The intrigues
Of the German government cannot be
found out easily; but tree is known
by its fruit"
A resolution by Representative
Fordncy, republican, of Michigan, de-
signed to provide for house inves-
tigation Of Helms remarks was re-
ferred to the rules committee by
Speaker Clark. What action will be
taken on it is problematical.
BERLIN rs WORRIED.
London, Sept. 2.--In commenting
on the latest Washington disclosures
concerning the activities of Count von
Bernstorff, former German arnbassa-
dor to the United States, the Koel-
nsche Volks Zeitung, according to an
Amsterdam dispatch to Reuters Ltd.
says:
This affair, If true, has very dis
agreeable character and 1t is highly
fegrettable. The American govern
ment, God knows how, was able to get
hold apparently of the whole collec-
ton of German diplomatic documents
which it is now exploiting against us
and Sweden.
"What the State department re-
marks about the relation between
Won Bernstorff's policy and the
U-boat war can be recognized as a
misleading invention by everyone
who knows the history preceding the
U-boat campaign"
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
who has been exposed by Secretary Of
State, Lansing as one of the plotters
against the United States at a time
when this country was neutral and
Won Bernstorf was at Washington
representing a supposedly friendly
power, is becoming more deeply in
volved.
According to the Lansing state
ment, Won Bernstorff sent mes
sage to his government in which he
sought permission to employ "slpsh
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