The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-12

say-He Refuses to DivuIge Infor.
nation and Wall Street Inquiry is
Not Likely to Go On-StiII Held in
Washington.
WASHINGTON - Otto H. Kahn,
of Kuhn, Loeb and company, Charles
H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty
Trust company, and Barney Baruch,
investor and speculator, denied en-
phaticaliy Tuesday that they had ever
protited by any leak of information
concerning the Presidents peace note,
or had heard of or suspected the exist
ence of any such note till it was print
ed in the newspapers. Their denials
were made to the house committee on
rules, whihc is trying to decide wheth-
er congress ought to make leak in
vestigatiOn.
1t is now extremely unlikely that any
such investigation will be conducted.
OF all the witnesses examined, only
Thomas w. Lawson has said word
to support the scandalous story that
information concerning the Presi-
dents intentions had trickled out into
Wall street.
Lawson, after second days ex-
animation, repeated his naughty refus-
al to give the names of the senator
and cabinet member which he as
severates were given him as benefic-
iaries of the leak and the cleanup on
the street that is supposed to have
followed
Questions Boiling.
The committee after resuming We'd
nesday asked few questions of r. w.
Boiling, the Presidents brother-inlaw,
who had already denied that he had
anything to do with the dealings at
which Representative Wood limited in
the speech that started all the trouble.
Boiling was requested to appear, in
stead of being subpoenaed His ex-
animation ELECTED nothing but denial
No one connected with the affair be-
lieves now that an investigation will
be recommended to the house. Some
of the Republicans on the rules com
mittee have been disposed to keep
but none of them really believe that
there is the slightest basis for the
yarns of corrupt partnership be-
tween Washington and Wall street
which have so glibly slid off many
idly wagging tongues in the last few
days
Lawson Tethered at Washington.
Lawson is still at the end of a con-
pressional tether and is forbidden to
leave Washington. 1t has not yet been
decided whether or not to ask the
house to discipline him for refusing to
give the names of the men be has so
repeatedly refused to. Until this is
done he will be in custody of
the people as personif1ed by the
sergeant-at-arms of the house of rep
resentatives.
AS matters stand now, the only
ground for investigation is Lawson's
promise to give the names he now
withholds, in case such an inquisition
is held. Lawson does not say that he
knows anything about the guilt of the
men he mentions. He says only that
stories of their participation in profits
from the leak were told to him by
third parties also nameless.
Against this promise to give hear
say evidence are the unqualified de-
malls of Baruch, Sabin, Kahn and Boil
ling, the only other witnesses whose
names the committee has been able to
secure.
After a stormy mornings session
with Lawson on the stand, the COM
mittee warned him to stick around
town until they could decide whether
or not to tell the house on him. They
discovered early in the day that they
could not get any more facts out of
him and finally abandoned the at,
tempt once and for all.
Sabin Got No Tip.
Mr.. Sabin was the next witness.
The only information he had to i'm
part was the fact that about October
he communicated to a number of
newspaper men information he had re-
ceived to the effect that Germany
would ask the United States to aid in
a peace movement Mr.. Sabin asked
to be excused from revealing the
source of this information. He said
that he gave it out because he be-
lieved the public ought to know it.
He denied specifically that he knew
anything about the note, that he had
profted from it, or that he had ever
sold share of stock short
Mr.. Kahn denied that he had obtain
ed any information about the note
from any official or other source, that
he had ever sold any stock because of
any information concerning it or adj
vised any one else to do So He too
said that he never had sold the mar
ket short.
Baruch Bought on Dec. 20-21.
Mr.. Baruch was kept on the stand
for two hours, while the committee
probed vainly for information that
might justify them in holding an in
nl1irv He was asked among othor