New Britain herald., 1917-01-09
Two Motions For Q
 tempt Considered Committee When
 Refuses to Disc1 Information
SAYS NATION WoU
 BE PREVIOUSLY HI

DE UNL LVlOOOL1 AH Opinion Leak Was H
 cial As Financial World
 Have Come Tumbling DOwI
 News Not Been Permitted
 come Known Previous to DiI
 of Peace Notes.
 Washington, Jan. 9.-Continu fusal of Thomas w. Lawson tp questions by the rules committee in the leak !, today caused the committee 10 tain a motion by Representativ( net that he be cited before the the house for contempt.
 Representative Bonnet dcn] that Lawson name the man VI says told him a New York brc cabinet official and a United senator participated in a stock bling partnership. Lawson fia1 fused for two reasons, one th& was already cited for content the other that he did not thi| necessary to give the names q time.
 The line of examinationI turned to the stock exchange Lawson's own operations, part ly during the month of, Ded 1916, during which the leak. oc(
 Lawson said that bad aB the on the market was when the came, it would probably have worse had there been no leal opinion Is that the break wasf in coming and that the leak certain operators an opportunl prepare for the crash.1 said l.
 They were left in q posita2 know just what to do. If tho , had broken without that prcpN made possibly by tho leak, the would have been much more trous to the country. We didn1 any bank or stock exchange n accompanying this crash, so the leak really was good th one way"
 Representative Chiperfcld toned Lawson. seeking to shoy he was a beneficiary of the market.
 Lawson denied that he was nected with any stock bro firm, but admitted that he cd occasionally through brokers individual.
 My purpose, said Chiperfla to show that Lawson. who s4 was not the recipient of any dealt largely in the stock ex{ during this break. I want to up his transactions which wer} ducted independently of d lea' he can operate successfully witt leak then condemn the effort made here to indict other m operating successfully on that 
 Lawson Continues Evasiyl brokers" he demanded.
 Give us the names of
 After a wranglc. Lawson sal firm which he opl was H. Content and companS New York.
 Chiperficld then asked g sei questions to show that LaWsd gan a selling campaign in Dec and asked if his transactions Il did not aggregate as much as 900. Lawson said he had 1i( what they aggregated. He wou give q direct answer when ask he had operated 9 selling can}
 Lawson promised he would close the names of the cabinI ticial the senator and the NewI who, he says, mem> congress told him. were enga4 a stock gambling partnership. House ordered an investigation result of the rules committee hearings.
 A third motion to report L for contempt was entered by th< mittees on demand of RepreseJ Chiperfield, when Lawson refu1 tell who gave him the names of men alleged to be involved iT leak.
 In answer to Q question by Cantrill If. in case al of the leak were ot by the house he would agree the new committee the name of congress. he had in and of the cabinet official, wh& said had been a beneficiary of leak, Lawson said emphaticnly y
 1T will"
 Efforts by MT. Chiperfield to MT. Lawson to state the amount profits of the stock market durii cember were futile. Lawson tained he did not know whcth made $1,000,0Oo or $500,00o.
 Answering MT. Chiperfleldl Lawson again declared he had rect knowledge through a leak coming of the presidents peacd
 (Contipued on Eleventh PaE