The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-24

postscript: "Jno. Me. was here yester- day" The abbreviations evidently sug- sested to. the committee the possibility of the financial arrangements having had clandestine character.)
 Major Hume subsequently, asked Mir. Feigenspan: Have you the records of all.activities in which you participated looking to the purchase, subsidization or financing by loan or otherwise, of newspapers, periodicals and maga- zines?" Following his answer, with certain particularization. he was asked regarding the business of the publica- tion committee of the United States Brewers association.
 He answered "To gather informa- ton, generally speaking, pertaining to our business, and to endeavOr to make publicity of the facts thus ascertained, with the viewpoint of presenting the favorable side of eur question"
 Senator Overman of North Carolina asked if it was not the purpose of the association to create sentiment in favor of the brewers. We were trying to present the good qualities of our products" replied the witness s,,4a.
 The. late Senator, Nelson of Mime sota was evidently skeptical that the witness answer covered all the ground.
 Did you aim to secure newspapers ?" he asked. s,
 Fiegenspan replied: ! They are me. diums of publicity. We did not try to secure them. We tried to. present certain facts to newspaper editors that would show them what our product was, 80 as to present favorable view point of it." Mir. .Feigenspan then proceeded to re: late the story of how the brewers had paid certain individual writers to serve them. Finally, it developed that of the particular details of the Advertiser fi- nancing, Feigenspan was considerably in the dark.
 Senator Wolcott asked: What ar engagements did you have with these men, Allen and Sheehan, to take care of your secondary liabilities?" ,+
 Mir. Fiegenspan replied T do not know what the details of that transac- tion were any more than that Mir. Schmidt asked me whether 1 would in dorse a note for certain man and I did so'' " -F Y'J
 Did Mir. Schmidt tell you of the ar- DCLWCCH tuC puEGuu6CIS the newspaper and the brewers who were to indorse the. notes% asked Vol colt; ,e., s'' .- r 2
 Il imagine that in a general way he outlined it to me at the time" replied Fiegenspan, "but do not recall the de- tails. l knew that we were to guar antee certain sun of money, which was, in turn, to be repaid at some fu- ture time" s .
 Was the agreement between the purchasers and the brewers reduced to writing?" persisted WolcOtt. ~
 Il do not know any of the details,'' replied Feigenspan. Those arrange nents were made by Mir. Schmidt"
 MT. Schmidt. was an intermediary then between the group of indorsers and the purchasers ?" inquired Wolcott.
 Yes, replied .Fiegenspan.
 Mir. Schmidt was the president of the bank which made the loan to Al len and Sheehan in return for the col lateral note of the brewers. Likewise. he was a member of the firm of c. Schmidt and Sons Brewing company. Committees Verdict t+
 Practically a year later, the sub-com- mittee published its verdict, in part, as follows:
 With regard to the conduct and
 activities of the brewing and
 liquor interests, the committee is
 of the opinion that the record clear
 ly established the following facts:
 "(a) That they have furnished
 large sums of money for the pur-
 pose of secretly controlling news-
 papers and periodicals.
 "(b) That they have unslertak-
 en to and frequently succeeded in
 controlling primaries, elections and
 political organizations.
 '.(c) That they have contributed
 enormous sums of money to politi-
 cal campaigns, in violation of the
 statutes. .. ts !.
 "(d) That they have exacted pledges from candidates for public office prior 10 elections. '(e) That for the purpose of i'm
 fluencing public opinion they have
 attempted and partly succeeded in
 substituting the public press
 "(f) That to suppress and CO.,
 cree persons hostile to and 10 com
 pei support for them they have re-
 sorted to an extensive system of
 boycotting American manufaetur-
 ing and mercantile concerns. '
 ~"(h) That with view to us- | ing it for their own political pur-
 poses they contributed large sums
 of money to the German-American
 alliance, many of the membership