The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-07
Score of Prominent Men Are
Cited to Appear Before
Rules Committee.
NEWSPAPERMEN ARE
CALLED ON CARPET
Representative Gardner
Points as Proof to Fluc-
tuations in Stocks.

Washington. Jan. 6.-Congressionaf
investigation of allegations of a leak
OF advance information to Wall street
on President Wilson's peace note took
a broader range today and the inyes.
tsators expect to lay u more definite
foundation for their work Monday.
"hcn score of men mentioned i'm
connection with the inquiry appear
before the house rules committee.
Secretary Lansing, whose department
has been drawn indirectly into the in
Nes'igation by suggestions that it
might have been the source of leak"
regarding dispatch of the note, and
Joseph +. Tumulty, secretary to the
president whose name was mentioned
yesterday by Representative Wood, in
stlgator of the inquiry. notified the
rules committee today that they
wished to appear and make statements
on the subject. Subpocnas were issued
for seven ncwspapermcn, representing
in Washington the Wall Street Jour
nal. Financial America. the Central
News of America and the New York
to bring their records with them.
Financiers Called.
Also under subpoena to appear Mon
day are Thomas w. Lawson, the Bos-
ton financlcr Bernard Bcruch of New
York. Charles II. Sabin, president OF
the GuaIanty Trust company, and the
ma mn upc9 nf tNyn fn1npra ~, c,,,
who will be asked about messages
passing over their wires on the day
the peace note was given In confidence
to newspaper correspondents.
Mr. Lawson, who has made sensa-
tional charges OF II leak was de-
clarcd today by Representative Chip
erfield of Illinois, "A Republican mem
Der of the rules committee to have
been the principal beneficiary of the
falling market that followed publica-
tion of the note. He said Iawson's
transactions aggregated $500, 900 on
that market.
Representative Gardner OF Massachu-
setts told the committee he had no
evidence involving anybody in official
life. but was convinced there had been
n leak He produced a copy of II
dispatch sent out over the Dow Jones
ticker in New York December 20 fore
casting n peace note ten hours before
the note was published. Mr.. Gardner
will be represented again before the
committee by counsel, who will sub
NIT an analysis of the effect of the
premature announcements on the mar
kct
Subpoena Newspapermen.
Subpocnas for the seven newspaper
correspondents We're issued after Rep
rescntativc Harrison, ~ Democratic
committeeman, had declared he be-
licvcd advance Information In the note
was sent to Wall street papers in
breach of confidence. He also criti-
ciZcd Representative Wood for giving
out memorandum from "a. Curtis
of New York. which gave no address
and who has not yet been located,
without having made any effort to in
quirc into the genuincness of his In
formant. Secretary Tumulty's state
ment denying an assertion in the mem
orandum and that he and Mr.. Baruch
conferred in New York prior to publi-
cation of the note was put into the
record and motion was adopted call
ing upon the New York and Chicago
stock exchanges to preserve all of
their brokerage slips from December
10 to %.
Representative Gardner testified he
was convinced there had been %
leak because at 2:05 p. M, Decem-
Der 90, ten hours before the peace note
was released for publication. and four
hours before it had been placed in the
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