Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-21
Boston Attorney Will Have Complete Direction of Con-
 gressional Inquiry.
HEARINGS RESUME
 IN N. Y. TUESDAY
Leaving Compensation to Be Fixed by Rules Committee, Sherman Whip ple Goes to New York to Pre-
 pare for Investigation.

Washington, Jan. 2O.-Sweepins aside all collateral issues, the house rules committee, conducting the Teak" enquiry. will begin hearings in New York Tuesday, to determine whether any one profited in Wall street as a result of possessing ad- vance information on President Will sons Deace note.
 When this feature of the enquiry has been fully discussed, the enquiry will extend into other phases of the "leak'' rumors. and every one of them will be run down.
 The committee expects to confine it's hearings at New York specifically to substantiation of the reports of the use of advance information, an members say there is little possibility that the enquiry will be broadened % embrace a complete investigation Of the stock exchanges, as has been urged by Thos. w. Lawson and others
 Whipple Has Free Hand.
 Sherman Whipple, of Boston. was formally retained by the committee today as it's counsel, and will assume active charge of the New York hear ings and those that are to follow. He was selected for the place Thursday and when he conferred with the con- mittee today, details os his retention were settled quickly. He accepted with the understanding that the com- mittee should fix the amount of his compensation later and that he would be given a free hand in directing the enquiry.
 A suggestion that the hearings be opened in New York in order ''to get at the heart of the leak first' was quickly accepted by the committee, whioIh then told MT. Whipple to pro- ceed with his work along his own lines, with the assurance of it's un- qualified support.
 The transfer of the hearings to New York was arranged in order to facili- tate the work. Most of the witnesses to be examined are there and if new angles are developed, more witnesses from the stock exchange doubtless will be called. Every member of the committee is anxious to finish the en : quiry as soon as possible. but none think it will be completed much ba- fore the expiration of the 27 remain ing days within which the committee must report the result to the house.
 Editor Ex: ected to Give Evidence.
 James R. Reilly, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones company's news-ticker, will doubtless be the first witness called. He explained before the committee here a week ago that information that the peace note was expected came io him through one of his reporters sey- eral hours before the note was made publid and the reporter, he said, told him his information came to New York over a brokers private wire from Washington. The committee and Mir. Whipple want more information so as to identify the reporter and the source of his information.
 Several New York financiers, in- cluding J.. P. Morgan, Frank A. Van- derlip, J. s. Bache, Henry P. David son, Arthur Lipper and Sol c. Wexler, also will be questioned at the New York hearings. They were subpoen- aed last week and some of them were here ready to testify, when the hear ings were interrupted. It is not inn possible the committee will visit other cities later. Men and records were summoned last week, from Chi cago and Boston.
 When the hearings will be resumed here is problematical. They were to have been resumed Monday with Mrs Visconti as the first witness. She is 1 the woman who, Lawson says, told him Secretary Humility and others profited by the "leak." She probably will not be called to testify until the committee ends it's hearings at New l York.
 MT. Whipp1e left tonight for New York