New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01
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put out n statement like that simply
10 create r sensation, do you? A.-Oh,
no.
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Odd you hear Mr. Hutton testify
this morning that this message MI
Ellis sent out was based substantially
on the message received from you!
Al wasn't here this morning.
Q-But that is correct, Is 1t not?
A-That is correct.
Q.-And that message is the one you
saw was based on gossip? A.-Yes.
Of that message was based mere
ly on gossip. do you think Mr.. Ellis
would send this other message based
on il. saying ne was "confdentially in
formed? A.-Why, | might have said
that myself.
Q-Do you mean to say that with
the information back of il pasted up
on your gossip board believe you
said YOU had pasted the stock flash on
your gossip board-you would send
message to an old, reliable firm like
Hutton & Co. with s45,000,00O of bust
ness. saying you had been "confden-
TALLY informed? Al can't explain
that. But lay no particular stress on
the word CONFIDENTIAL" Confidentially
7 lUlOTUltus well lllO iINu hlibhN ho'O
used either.
Q-Then you mean to say that you
would use confdentially informed or
we'll informed interchangeable A
! Why, yes. Just a play on words. that Is.
The rather crowded hearing room
broke into a roar at this. Indeed, Con-
molly had been amusing committee,
counsel. newspapermen and spectators
rather continuously since taking the
stand.
In appearance he resembles floor
walker in a department store much
more closely than a member Of the
New York Stock Exchange.
A battery Of photographers edged up
toward him with some hesitancy as he
took his seat in the witness chair. and
Chairman Henry indicated to him that
he need not have his picture taken II
il annoyed him.
"Oh. / don't object" ne fastened TO
reply, with a smile. which invited them
all.
fash that the message was gong nol
only to belligerents, but to neutrais
/ Representative Bennett asked him.
IL lust assumed" he said, that 1t
was going to the world. II so, 1T would
90 10 the neutrsls as well as the bel
/ iigerents, wouldn't it?'
and vet. so far as this stock fash ls
concerned, it might have been one o.
Secretary Lsnsing's statements TO
Americans alone" remarked the Con
gresham.
Q.-Tske this next sentence IN the
Ellis telegram: interpreted not as
pressure on belligerents on behaii u
peace. but as an effort TO put American
demands on record if there is peace.
I Where did you get the information 70
base that on? A.-Oh, ! just wrote
that That's my own idea.
Ono one told you that. no one at
/ all? A.-No sir. no one at all. | may
+ have beer irving TO make an impress
SION on Hutton & Co.
Q.-How do you account for the fact
that this particular sentence is such an
accurate description Of the Presidents
ncte which came out the next day?
Al don't know that It is such an ac-
curate description
Read Wilson's Message
o.-Have you read the Presidents
message? A.-Well. think ! did.
/ Better read it again" advised MI.
Bennett, "and learn Of your great gait
Of prophecy.'
Mr. Connolly bethought him at this
moment that he had attended the Grid
iron Club dinner and heard the Presl-
dents speech on that occasion. tie
hoped, he said. il would not be violst-
ing any confidence 20 say that TINS
speech. composed on lines similar TO
/ the peace note, had made a profound
{ impression on him, and that he had
/ felt sure il foreshadowed just such
document as the peace note.
"The members of the committee who
are in touch with affairs Of diplomacy,
I remarked Mr.. Bennett, recognize in
your message the language Of the high
/ est form of craftsmanship
"You know as we'll as | do" said
! Connolly, chat you can hear almost
anything in Washington if you have
4 YOUR ear 10 the ground and get around
| in the right circles. A clever man Ger
tainly can hear a great deal.
O.-Isn't IL a fact that somebody
gave YOU the information substantially
IS YOU sent it to Hutton & Co. without
| YOUR realizing the significance Of It?
A.-No, sir.
O.-You stick 10 your FIRST state
mont? Ayes, sir | stick 10 my first
statement given here under oath. II
had had that information ] wouldn't
! have been sitting like bump on the
/ log. -
matter Of the forthcoming message OF
particular moment Yet you sent 1t
saving YOU were confdentlally IN
I formed and that the Presidents mes.
sage would be looked on az move OF
great moment? Al don't say
didn't say that; may have. 1t was
/ Just matter Of gossip so far as was
concerned Hutton Co. could Judge
/ for themselves.
0. You told them something that
YOU Yourself did not really believe,
/ then? A. Well. that might be.
BY what he called process of elm
/ ination" Mr. Bennett during the morn
ing induced MIR. Hutton TO admit that
The news received BY Hutton & Co.
from Washington on December 20 was
not Common knowledge"
Mr. Hutton agreed with him that
President ii. G.. s. Noble OF the Stock
Exchange was a representative odd .lots
nan IN tho Street, and yet he had no
ouch knowledge. Pliny Fisk, he ad-
mitted. was an equally representative
Investment house man, and ne was
equally ignorant. And finally bernard
NJ Baruch, frankly Spectator ana
Keen one" As Mr. Hutton lntcrposcd'
Rad testified that he had no knowledge
Of the kind. And he, II was agreed,
I was a good representative OF wall
Street operators.
How many other commission houses
are there in the Street with Washing
ton wires?'
Fifteen or twenty" should say.
Did you hear that any one OF these
received the information on this point