Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-16
MEN MENTIONED BY LAWSON
ALL ENTER SWEEPING DENIALS

Secretary McAdoo, Mr.. Tumulty and
Mr.. Price all issued unqualified denials
of the hearsay charges made against
them. Secretary McAdoo said:
mo man should be called upon to
notice such detestable and irresponsi-
BILE gossip and Islander, but since my
name has been mentioned. I wish to
say that no more shameless and wan
ton lie could be conceived than the
rumor or suggestion that I have been
interested at any time and in any
manner whatever in stock speculations
or purchases of stock in New York or
elsewhere, or that / have been con-
nected in any manner whatever with
the alleged leak about the so-called
peace note.
THE putrid partisan politicians and
the putrid stock gamblers in New York
and Boston are giving the country
painful exhibition of the contemplate
methods to which they resort in their
efforts to injure the administration.
Would Prosecute the Authors.
IF any man in or out of Congress
will assume responsibility for these
ISLANDERS, or if l can secure legal proof
of the guilt of such a man. l will have
him put in the penitentiary, where he
belongs. 1t is time that an example
be made 81 the foul scoundrels who
make a profession of whispered and
baseless insinuations against men in
public life"
Secretary TumuIty gave out this
statement:
After the complete and definite
statement which L made to the rules
committee last week, it should hardly
be necessary for me to say that there
is not a scintilla of truth in these new
himsy charges.
Mr.. Price Makes Sweeping Denial.
Mr.. Price today made the following
statement:
at is to be deeply regretted that
Congress is lending itself to the manu-
facture and distribution of such slime
as this, in which a mans name, built
up by years of struggle to keep free
from things that faint, is involved on
the hearsay of any mentally befogged
person who may care to write or talk
and revel in sensation.
But to the facts. These are that
word about the Presidents note and
never talked with him about it until
after the publication; he never gave me
anything in confidence that was mis-
used By me; l never bought, sold for
him or myself a single share of stock;
l made no money as result OF the in
formation that came to me through
newspaper men of the statement Of
Secretary Lansing that something was
coming: Secretary McAdoo gave me no
information on this subject; nor did any
other cabinet officer. ! have the fullest
confidence in Secretary Tumulry's hon
esty, loyalty to the President and de-
termination to do nothing wrong in
his position, not only for his own sake.
but for the Presidents. Secretary Nc
Adoo I regard as one of the cleanest
men 1 ever knew in public life"
"Know Nothing About It." Warburg
Paul NJ. warburg today issued the
following statement:
81 fail to see why my name should
have been dragged into this investiga
ton. 1 do not know a thing about the
leak machinery, or, for that matter,
about the leak, except what 1 have seen
in the press. / have not been sub
poenaed, but I am anxious to be per-
mitted to testify and have so informed
the committee"
product of Disordered Brain"
NEW YORK, January. 16.-Malcolm
McAdoo. brother of the Secretary of
the Treasury. and Pliny Fisk. both of
whose names were mentioned by Mr..
Lawson in his testimony at Washing
ton, have issued statements denying
any connection with the alleged leak"
Mr. McAdoo said:
II don't know Lawson. I never saw
him. 1 am not connected with the leak
in any way except what have seen in
the newspapers. I have no connection
with the administration and l have no
influence with it. I am a brother of
the Secretary of the Treasury and have
been his brother for flfty-one and one
half years, but I am not entitled to
criticism on that account"
Mr.. Fisk said:
There Is no truth and no basis for
] truth in the statements as represented