New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
WHIPPLE PICKED
FOR LEAK COUNSEL
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man Henry anG to Mr.. Burleson that
the public would rightly assume tnA'
a whitewashing OF McAdooo was IN
tended il Untermyer should De ms
cross-examiner Untermyer, IN inc
case OF the Riggs National BanA
against McAdoo and John SHELTON WIN,
lars. was counsel for Mr.. McAdoo' anu
later he Joined him on the Pan Amer
can financial conference junket to
South America. lie was MIR. McAdoo's
guest on an American cruiser.
Incidentally. the statement issued by
REPRESENTATIVE Campbell drove II
home to the Administration members
of the committee how the selection OF
Untermyer would be construed by the
public
"The action Of the Democratic mem
beers OF the Committee on Rules since
the House yesterday authorized the
committee to employ counsel and eX-
perte in Stock Exchange transactions
20 aid in the investigation now before
the committee is most surprising,
said Mr.. Campbell.
Democrats Met Secretly
AT the close OF the hearing the day
before yesterday the Republican mem
bers of the Committee on Rules asked
for an executive session for the pur-
pose Of laying before the commit
tee the importance Of employing
counsel and experts. A resolution
was agreed upon by the commit
tee and presented to the House. The
House ordered the committee to EN-
ploy sucn counsel ald experts as IL
might require. Then, 10 the astonish-
a. .
the committee, the Democratic mem
bers met behind closed doors, 1t is
said, for the purpose of agreeing upon
the counsel and experts the House
directed the coniittee TO employ.
"The Horse did not direct the en-
ployment OF partisan counsel. The
conclusion is that Democratic mem
bers believe it important to employ
such counsel as would make a parti-
san investigation.
This Investigation must not be
1mothored or strangled. II must be
made and every available source Of
evidence must be exhausted
Resume Hearings Monday
Further public hearings in the in.
curry were postponed until Monday
morning to give counsel and the com
mittee time to complete arrangements
and prepare for the future proceed
ings along lines which the attorney
may suggest.
The plan is 20 call a. the first wit
ness Mrs. Ruth Thomson Visconti, the
woman whom Thomas W. lawson says
told him Secretary Tumulty and ". W
Price, a Washington newspaper man.
were beneiieiaries of the alleged leak.
She will be followed by a score or more
OF other witnesses, including the men
whose names have been brought into
The inquiry, and several prominent New
York tinsnciers.
Secretary Lansing to-day denied
statements made az the leak" hearing
that he had breskfasted several times
Al the Biltmore Hotel in New York
with Bernard Baruch He said he did
not know Mr. Baruch and never had
any conversations with him. Secretary
Lsnsing's authorized statement was as
follows:
"While dislike very much 10 dignity
by denial false and malicious scandal,
a. the same time the publicity which
mas been given 10 some Of the reports
20 the statement that | breakfssted
several times with Mr. Barueh at the
Biltmore Hotel, implying, | assume,
that 7 gave him advance information
concerning the note to the belligerents,
never TO my knowledge saw Mr..
Bsruch az any time. DO not know
him and never had any conversations
with him, and have been out Of Wash
ington only once since election. and
that was 20 attend the Army and Navy
game in New York on November 25'