The Washington times., 1917-01-03

Wood resolution privileged and ii was
referred to the Committee on Rules
with instructions to report in ten
days.
Mr.. Lawson left Washington with
the statement that this town doesn't
want an inquiry He left the city at
midnight. but before departing issued
characteristic and caustic statement,
saying:
Before coming to Washington 1
said there was a leak and Wash
ington benefited-millions by it
that knew it. After being in Wash
not the custodian of any close secret.
Knows There Was Leak.
Washington knows there was a
1eak'-mark you l use the word
knows'-and Washington not only
knows that Washington benefited by
it, but Washington knows who the
individual beneficiaries were, and
that they were high-ups and then, too,
Washington knows, as / know, that
Washington does not intend under
any circumstances to have the coun-
Washington loves above all things
to bluff and bulldoze. / know Wash
ington, but Washington every now
and again goes through the stunt
of pretending IL does not know me.
The minute Washington thought that
Washington might be exposed raw
red with the goods, the goods rotten
rich and stenchy. Washington LET out
a yell If he does come on here and
flashlight the protuberance beneath
our togas, we'll, we'll, you bet
we'll.
81 have been in Washington until
1 am tired of being here, and 1 am
going home because there is, to use
the vernacular, nothing doing, abso-
lutely nothing doing, and there will
not be anything doing in the leak
line, not in this leak line or any
leak hne.
Another "Leak" Due Soon.
81 touched them up in every direc-
ton, showed there had not only been
a leak and a big part of the loot
was in Washington, the Capital not
only of the country. but of leak
grating but there was another
leak coming which would bring the
greatest destruction of all the worlds
history. Still there was nothing do
ing.
81 think there is one thing can
safely promise Congress. Within
short time there will be another
leak the hell of which will be
Kansas cyclone to a powder pun by
comparison, and then Congress will
be as anxious for an investigation as
1 am now.
But there will be nothing doing
then, because-well, because there
won't be enough left to investigate
to make 1t worth while.
"In regard to Chairman Henry, he
said in the most cordial way possible:
Come here and make yourself at
home and I did. After hours and
hours of being at home, we agreed to
disagree as follows:
HE would not have an investiga-
tion unless the leak makers and
beneficiaries confessed to him in ad-
vance, I tried to show him that. an
investigation foundationed in such
low-down start could never go far,
and that anyway 1t was impossible
because the men who had brains
enough to clean up S60,0OO,00O and
split it with the Washington. leak
ers' were not Of the informer brand.
offered to Show All Details.
81 showed him confessions were not
necessary; that l could show him,
and did, and would show his COM
mittee or Congress or the President,
the processes by which 1t would sure
Iy be developed. in the first forty-eight
hours of the investigation that there
had been a leak who leaked and
who caught the leak and to dol
lar how the leak loot had been split
Chairman Henry had no trouble
seeing it my way, and had no trou-
BILE seeing it his way. Washington
does not want an investigation and
it won't have one, not a real one, un-
DER any circumstances.
"If there was any better evidence
than my say so needed, listen to the
creakings and wheezings of the mud
guns of that old blatherskiting char
acter blackjacker from Missouri,
'Gumshoe' Bill Stone. The way he
holIered in the SenaSe it sounded
much as though the frozen-footed
Ieakers' had asked him to contribute
to the fund for the sure squelching OF
the whole d leak blowout"