LOBBYING SCANDALS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1793, 4 July 1913, Page 7

LOBBYING SCANDALS.

HOW "INTERESTS " OPERATE IN UNITED STATES. TELEPHONE IMPERSONATIONS. By Telegraph—Proes Association-Copyright Washington, July 2. Mr. David Lamar, a Wall Street operator, informed the Lobbying Committee that he had frequently impersonated prominent financiers at tho telephone, and carried on conversations designed to advance the interests of his friend, Hdward Lanterbach, a New York lawyer. Legislation had been frequently affected in this manner, he said. Lamar alleged that the Union Pacific Company' 9 books had been forged in 1901, a sum amounting to sixteen millions sterling being involved. As an outcome of the forgery, added Lamar, Messrs. Kuhn, Loeb, and Hurriman had laid the foundations of their fortunes. He did not know the person responsible for the forgeries. A lawyer, representing tho railway interests, alleged that Lamar's charges wero merely a Stock Exchango attempt to "bear" railway stocks. Following upon a vehement protest by the President against the "insidious lobbying" that was going on in connection with the tariff revision, every Senator, it was reported, was examined in regard to his private business, in order to establish whether the lobbyists whom President Wilson denounced sought to influence them against the Tariff Bill.