Mr. Graham—“But how did it happen that you were representing the other companies who were your competitors?”
Mr. Wolf son—“Well, at the request of the War Industries Board, we offered a copper pro¬ ducers’ committee.”
Mr. Graham—“Who requested that?” Mr. Wolf son—“Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr., rep¬ resenting Mr. B. M. Baruch.”
Mr. Graham—“Now let us find out who Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr., was. Do you know him?”
It develops that Mr. Eugene Meyer, Jr., is another Wall Street man who “had large investments in cop¬ per,” though whether he retained them during the war, Mr. Wolfson did not know.
Mr. Graham—“Then Eugene Meyer, Jr., went into the War Industries Board and took up with the copper producers the question of furnishing copper, did he?”
Mr. Wolfson—“Yes, sir.” As a result of that request a meeting was held at 120 Broadway, at which were present, among a few others, S. S. Rosenstamm, L. Vogelstein, Julius Loeb, T. Wolfson, G. W. Drucker and Eugene Meyer, Jr.
Mr. Graham—“Any army officers there?” Mr. Wolfson—“No.” The witness here quoted, Tobias Wolfson, was one of the most active instruments in the actual passage of business, but the Washington representative was a Mr. Mosehauer. The interesting thing about Mr. Mosehauer is that he represented both the American Metals Selling Company and the American Smelting and Refining Company—the Lewisohns and the Guggenheims—and by order of Baruch, with the ap¬ proval of the government, the business was done with these two corporations.