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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
ago, was active in a subordinate capacity in the
lobby operations of the N. A. M.
"(N) Frank F. Porter, chief of the member
ship division of the N. A. M., collector of cam
paign and labor funds.
"(0) Edward nines, head of the lumber
lobby, celebrated for 'putting Lorimer over' as
United States senator from Illinois, from which
office he was dismissed in disgrace; handled
various suras of money to promote the election
of Congressman John J. Jenkins of Wisconsin.
(P) H. E. Miles of Racine, "Wis., chairman
of the executive committee for the creation of
a tariff commission; active director in the N. A.
M. and instructed to pay Watson money for
services rendered as lobbyist; sought appoint
ment as member of the tariff commission
created to head off tariff revision.
"(Q) D. M. Parry, former president of tho
N. A. M.; very active as director of lobby opera
tions upon his retirement from presidency; took
a conspicuous part in creation of tariff commis
sion in 1909.
"Nine That the National Association of
Manufacturers, through its agents, including
Cushing and Mulhall, successfully conducted
the campaign to break the strikes of the job
printers in 1905-6; 23,000 shoemakers at St.
Louis in 1907; 10,000 hatmakers at Danbury,
Conn., and New Jersey points in 1909, and of
4,000 shoemakers at Portsmouth, O., in 1907.
"Ten That those agents of the N. A. M.
planted spies in the labor unions with which
the strikers were connected, corrupted minor
labor leaders, personally paid thom sums of
money which aro set forth in tho correspondence
turned over to the World by Colonel Mulhall;
enlisted the support of clergymen to break tho
strike at Danbury and even sought to influence
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to compel a
settlement favorable to the hatmakers through
local clergymen. In carrying out this campaign
Colonel Mulhall enlisted the assistance of tho
Rev. H. C. Meserve of the First Congregational
church of Danbury and of tho Rev. Fathers
Shanley and Kennedy. In its strike-breaking
undertaking the N. A. M. had the co-operation
of many men high in the councils of the repub
lican party and a few In the democratic party,
either by reason of political affiliation, friendly
sentiment, business "prejudice or personal gain.
"Eleven That tho National Association of
Manufacturers conducted a relentless warfare
against public officials and labor leaders who
opposed its legislative and industrial plans;
financed the campaigns of candidates against
them and sought to retire them from congress,
the information upon which these undertakings
wore based being secretly supplied to tho N. A.
M. by its agents in Congress and among the
labor unions, and that this 'blacklist' included
tho following:
'"(A)5 Congressman John L. Burnett of the
Seventh 4al)ama district. (Beaten in 1908 be
Caitse ho was too active on floor of congress
against bills favored by the National Association
The Commoner
of Manufacturers, which organized an offective
propaganda against him in his d strict.)
"(B) Former Congressman Henry L. May
nard of tho Second West Virginia district
(Beaten for the same reason in 19 08. .
"(C) Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri.
(Unsuccessfully opposed by very influence at
tho command of the National Association of
Manufacturers both in 1908 and 1910.)
"(D) Congressman Henry A. Cooper otne
First Wisconsin district. (Unsuccessfully op
posed because of his radical opposition to Can
non, though otherwise friendly to the National
Association of Manufacturers.
"(E) Former Congressman Thomas D.
Nichols of tho Tenth Pennsylvania district.
Beaten in 1910 because of his persistent opposi
tion to the interests of the National Association
of Manufacturers and for his championship of
labor interests; elected in 1910 by a diminished
majority.)
"(F) Former Congressman Herbert Parsons
of the Thirteenth New York district. (Defeated
in 1910 because of his opposition to Cannonism.)
"(G) Congressman W. S. Green of the Fif
teenth Massachusetts district. (Unsuccessfully
opposed in 1908 because of his opposition to
Cannon and the other interests of the manu
facturers' association.)
"(H) Congressman Gilbert N. Haugen of
the Fourth Iowa district. (Opposed with all the
influence at the command of the National' As
sociation of Manufacturers in 1908, but re
elected by a very small majority.)
"(I) Former Congressman William D. Wil
son of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania. (Beaton in
1912 because of his opposition to the plans of
the National Association of Manufacturers and
his championship of labor; appointed by Presi
dent Wilson secretary of labor.)
"(J) Former United States Senator Louis
E. McCombs of Maryland.' (Opposed for every
office ho ran for because of his authorship of the
general eight-hour bill and his championship of
labor interests In general.)
"(K) Former Congressman George E. Pearre
of Maryland. (Beaten because of his author
ship of the Pearre national injunction bill.)
" (L) United States Senator William Hughes
of New Jersey. (Beaten for congress in 1904
and opposed at all times and barely escaped de
feat in 1910 because of his activities in behalf
of labor reforms.)
Congressman John Kelliher
(Beaten in 1910 for tho
'XM) Former
of Massachusetts,
same reason.)
" (N) Former
Congressman Connolly of
Massachusetts. (Beaten in 1910 for the same
reason.)
"(O) President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor. (Made the
target of many forms of attack to discredit him
after repeated failures to bribe him by agents
of the National Association of Manufacturers.)
"tP) John Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers of America, member of
the civic federation. (Opposed by every in
fluence at the command of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers.)
"(Q) Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor. (Made the
object of attacks by agents of the National As
sociation of Manufacturers.)
"Twelve That Colonel Mulhall has personal
knowledge and accounts to show that during his
lobby, political and strike-breaking work for the
National Association of Manufacturers he paid
out to accomplish the purposes of that organi
zation a sum approximating $200,000, all of
which was supplied to him by officials of the
association."
XAMAR'S REMARKABLE STORY
Following is an Associated Press dispatch:'
Washington, July 2. A story of misrepresenta
tions, impersonation of public men and or
ganized effort to influence Wall street financiers,
probably without parallel within the history of
congressional investigations, was unfolded to
day before the senate lobby investigating com
mittee. A prosperous-looking, self-possessed individ
ual, calling himself David Lamar of Now York
self-described as an "operator in stocks," and
admittedly the bearer of several assumed names,
?i,lho4?rinclpal In tho remarkable session!
With entire abandonment, arousing the com
mittee to laughter at times by his naive admis
sions ho told of his impersonations, his par
ticipation in attempts to influence Wall street
operations and his associations with Edward
Lauterbach, a New York lawyer, in efforts to
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have Lauterbach retained by the Morgan firm
the Union Pacific and other great interests tn
head off congressional activity in Washington
He telephoned to financial men and lawyers
in the names of Representative Palmer and
Representative Riordan. He assumed the guiso
of Chairman McCombs of the democratic na
tional committee to telephone to Chairman
Hilles of the republican national committee
Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York, counsel
for the Morgan firm, was one of his attempted
victims. Mr. Ledyard came to the witness stand
today armed with almost a verbatim account of
all the conversations held with Lamar, who
had represented himself as Congressman Pal
mer. As he read the record of the conversa
tions, in themselves unusual in their tone, La
mar, sitting nearby, laughed and nodded,' say
ing, "That's right," and slapping his leg with
apparent enjoyment.
The purpose of his impersonations, Lamar
contended, was to secure reinstatement for his
friend, Edward Lauterbach, in tho good graces
of the Morgan firm.
Members of the committee tonight decided
that Lamar should remain in Washington for
reappearance tomorrow. Edward Lauterbach,
who recently testified before the committee, was
recalled from New York by telegraph tonight,
and Henry B. Martin a local man, who has
figured as head of the "anti-trust league," also
was subpoenaed to appear. s
Lamar declared he prepared the resolution for
the Stanley investigation of the steel trust; that
it was given to Martin, who gave it to Congress
man Stanley subsequently, he said it was intro
duced in the house of representatives by Mr.
Stanley with but a few "technical changes" from
its original form.
Lamar denied that there had been any at
tempt at extorting money from any of the New
York financial men. The story evolved during
the day, mainly through the Ledyard testimony,
indicated that the latter had been to various
members of the Morgan firm, to tell them of tho
"steel trust" investigation resolution which La
mar had prepared, but that none of the Morgan
firm members would pay any attention to the
matter or make any effort to stop it.
Lamar paved the way for Lauterbach to call
upon Ledyard according to the testimony given
by Ledyard and corroborated by Lamar. In an
interview on February 8, 1913, between Led
yard and Lauterbach, the latter declared ho
came direct from Senator Stone who repre
sented Speaker Clark, and that he had a pro
posal to make to the Morgan interests for the
heading off of congressional activity against the
steel corporation.
Senator Stone took the stand before Ledyard
had finished and denounced the whole thing as
a malicious fabrication and a "common lie."
Members of the senate committee agreed in
the belief that it was a fabrication, and Lamar
laughingly clinched the matter by breaking in
and admitting that there was no truth in tho
allegations. He admitted that he prepared tho
outlines of the conditions that had been sub
mitted to the steel corporation attorney; hut be
could give no explanation of his purroso ex
cept that the whole thing was a farce.
The story of how Ledyard had kept Lamar
on the telephone time after time until he could
locate the real Congressman Palmer in Wash
ington; how he had once succeeded in getting
Palmer over the long distance telephone when
the bogus "Palmer" was on another telephone;
and how he had finally traced the impersonator
to a telephone in Lamar's apartments on River
side drive, held the committee and spectators al
most dumfounded for more than an hour.
Paul D. Cravath, one of the attorneys for tno
Union Pacific, and Maxwell Evarts, counsel lor
the Southern Pacific, testified briefly as to their
experiences with the telephone impersonator.
During his testimony early in the day Lamar
interjected an attack upon the Union Pacuc,
claiming there had been a falsification in tn
books of the company in 1901 by which nearly
$80,000,000 hul disappeared from its surplus.
Mr. Cravath Immediately denied this, term
ing Lamar a "liar," a characterization wmcu
the committee Insisted should be withdrawn.
Cravath declared the attack had been expecwu
for several days, as a part of a bear raid to ue
press tlie value of the stock for speculative w
noses
While Lamar was on the stand Chairman
Overman endeavored to make him give J "j
name, but the witness refused. He adim uj
under Overman's questioning, that he naa u
in Denver under the name of David H. "l
but denied he had used the name of &
Wolf. He said Lamar was not his name, uui
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