Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1913, Page 3

THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. AMAZFS SENATE | 03BY PROBERS Wall Sireet Operator Ad- mits Impersonating. DAVID LAMAR ON STAND One Time Confidant of Russell Sage, : James R. Keene and Other Finan- ciers Frankly Testifies He Im. personated Representatives Palmer and Riordan in Telephone Con. versations. Washington, July 3.—David Lamar, Wall street operator and one time confidant of Russell Sage, James R. Keene and other the senate lobby committee by smil- ingly and frankly testifying that it was he who imperscnated Represen- tatives Palmer and Kiordan in tele- phone conversations with Lewis Cass Ledyard, Paul D. Cravath, Chairman Robert 'S. Lovett of the Union Pacific board and other prominent financiers, telling them that Edward Lauterbach, a New York lawyer, could do great things for them in Washington. Lamar also astenished the commit- tee by making a detailed charge that the Union Pacific railroad’s books had been forged in 1901 on an item covering $82,000,000, and that as one result Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the late E. H. Harriman had laid the foundations of gigantic fortunes. When Lamar had finished Paul D. Cravath of counsel for the Union Pa- cific put in a prepared statement to the committee alleging that Lamar’s charge concerning the ' .000,000— which amount is connecte. with the Union Pacific surplus—was part of a bear campaign to depress Union Pa- cific stock, of which the railroad’s officials have had knowledge for sev- eral days. Lamar amused, entertained and as- tounded the committee as he freely testified as to his impersonation of congressmen over the telephone. e did it all, he said, to impress the financiers with the abilities of his friend, Edward Lauterbach, but he stoutly denied there was ever any mention that Lauterbach should profit by legal fees. Cummins Asks Questions. Questioned by Senator Cummins he said he was a Methodist and that La- mar was not_ his original name. He declined to give that, saying that he had had several names. He further denounced the plan of dissolution of the Pacifics as agreed upon at St. Paul recently. In 1897, Lamar said, Russell Sage authorized him to proceed to compel the Union Pacific to pay the govern- ment $58,000,000 in bonds owing it. Lamar, with Senator Foraker, came to ‘Washington and conferred with Presi- dent McKinley. “We were charged with being a pair of conscienceless blackmailers,” said Lamar, “but that had no effect on us.” | ‘When Sage retired from business in 1901 on Sage’s recommendation he be- | came associated with James R. Keene. |} Lamar said he warned Keene, when the latter was buying Union Pacific stock, that the railroad. would ruin him to get revenge for Lamar’s pre- vious activity. He detailed how, when Keene and his associates had $43,000,- 000 Union Pacific he took steps to en- Join the voting of certailn stock, so [ that E. H. Harriman would be com- pelled to buy Keene's stock at a high figure. When the injunction was finally de- cided against stock went down and Keene and his friends lost most of their fortunes. “As a result of the panic of 1907,” said Lamar, “Harriman and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the National City bank and Morgan & Co. became bound to- gether as with an iron band 7 STOLEN JEWELS IN VALISE New York F:rm Recovers $98,000 Worth From Grip. New York, July 3.—The more than $98,000 worth of jewelry stolen from the Fifth avenue firm of Udall & Bal- lou was found in the Pennsylvania railroad station in a valise. The jewels, among them a rare dlue diamond of great value, were stolen some time last Friday night during the excitement caused by a fire in the establishment. No arrests were made, but William Beck, a young repair clerk in the store, was taken to police headquarters for questioning. jumped from a window of the building and fled. The firm appraised its loss at about $98,000. There were 450 pieces in the lot. -FEDERALS OLAIM:4WCT0RY Repulse Rebels After Three Days Fighting at Guaymas. Mexico City, July 3.—That Guaymay has been taken as reported by the Sonora state insurgents is denied at the federal government offices here. Telegrams from General Ojeda, com- manding the federals at Guaymas, ara | exhibited at the president’s offices say- ing that he succeeded in repulsing the attack of the rebels after three days’ fighting, financiers, amazed | Keene Union Pacific | GREAT WESTERN LINE BALKS AT REBATE More Rate Litigation !Is Brew- ing in Minnesota. St. Paul, July 3.—Minnesota is face to face with another rate case. The Chicago Great Western railway has re- fused to comply with the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case involving the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and will not pay refunds on excess charges during the period of rate liti- gation. The amount involved is ap- proximately $300,000. was made by Asa G. or the company. e court held the state. d to the Minneapolis ve confiscatory,” said + Great Western be- ig applies to it and ni of the refunds. I ecree secured in May. 1911, and orte( tive July 1.of that year by the stockholders, the company is restrained from establishing the state rates and, of course, from mak- ing refunds during the period of liti- gation. “We would have to secure an order from the courts or the interstate com- merce commission to allow us to act and the company does not intend to Join with the other lines in asking that the injunction be vacated.” The decision of the Great Western to fight out the rate case came as a surprise to the members of the state railroad and warehouse commission and Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith. They believed the company would join the other roads in sub- scribing to the refund agreement. The course the state will pursue is problematical, but it is the opinion of Mr. Smith the only thing to do is to fight the matter in the courts. The situation is complicated. A Good Investment. W. D. Magli a well known merch- ant of Whitemound, Wis., bought a stock of Chamberlain’s medicine so as to be able to supply them to his cus- tomers. After receiving them he was himself taken sick and says that one small bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy was worth more to him than the cost of his entire stock of these medicines. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store.— Adv. Covyricht 1913 The House of Kuppeabeimer e R — |book entitled “Uncle This annourcement of the intention | THE BEMIDJI DAILY monm Makers of Amerlcan Hlstory “Learn_One Thing Every Day.” NO. 4. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. Copyright, 1913, by The Asso It does not often happen that a man makes a serious contribution to scientific’ literature and finds it en- thusiastically received by the read- ing public as a collection of humorous | stories. This happened to Joel Chan- dler Harris, who wrote in 1880 a Remus: ‘His Songs a_nd His Sayings,” knowing it to be an important contribution to! the records of Alfo-American - folk- lore; but the reading .public cared little for the accuracy in these por- trayals of the American to their de- light in the humor and charm of | the stones themselves, r \Our great American humorous writers in the past have done ‘a varied service to literature and to the social structure of our nation. Some have attacked sham and fraud with the weapons of wit and cari- cature and have done lasting good. Some, like Petroleum V. Nasby and Orpheus C. Kerr served the Northern cause in the Civil War and at the same time afforded rest and relaxa- tion to Abraham Lincoln when his mind greatly needed it. Others have done a lasting service in perserving accurate pictures of quaint provin- cial types throughout America. Joel Chandler Harris is one of these. Many who are still writing, such as Irving Bacheller, George Ade, and others, perform the same valuable service. It is hard to call this im- portant service a byproduct, and yet, after all, the laughter and enjoyment stimulated by their writings is per- i ciated Newspaper. School, Inc. h&ps the greatest service ‘they. can render. r. Harris was born in Eatonton ¥ Georgm, December 8, 1848, and died in'Atlanta in 1908. Like so many other American humorists he was a pr\i,nter by trade, later becoming . a |} journalist. Unlike many * others, however, he was no of - the rolling stone, but lived his life in Georgia{ and rose high in his profession, be- coming editor of the Atlanta Consti- tution. “Nights with Uncle ‘Remus,”’ “Daddy Jake, the Runaway” are “Mingo and Other Sketches,” and among his best known books; but he was a coqstant contributor of prose and verse to the.magazines. Youngi and old like his stories. “The Tar Baby” is a classic in juvenile litera- ture. Uncle Remus - does not belong among ' the slapstick humorists, and ye:t his place among the makers of American humor is just ‘as definite, and he belongs just as distinctly to American literature as Chandler Harris belongs to our na- tional life, and the distance between him and Josh Billings marks the scope of our native humor. s Every day a different human inter- est story will appear in The Pioneer. You can get a beautiful intaglio reproduction of this picture, with five others, equally attractive, 7 x 9% inches in size, with this week’s “Mentor.” In “The Mentor” a well known authority covers the subject of the pictures and stories of the week. Readers of The Pioneer and “TheMentor” will know Art, Litera- ture, History, Science, and Travel and own exquisite pictures. On sale’ at the Abercombie’s Book Store. Price, Ten Cents. 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