Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-07
Subpoenaes Issued for Seven Representatives Financial
 Papers.
LANSING, HUMILITY
 DESIRE TO APPEAR
Secretary oi State and Secretary to President Notify fommittc They Wish to Make Statements-LHW-
 son Alleged to Be Big Winner.

Washington, Jan. G-The special in- vcstigatOn of the allegations of Il "leak' of advance information 10 Wall street on President Wilson's peace note took on broader range today. and the investigators expect 10 lay a more definite foundation for their work Monday. when a score of mon mentioned in connection with the in- Quiry appear before t'e house rules committee, which is conducting the investigation by order of congress.
 Secretary Lansing. whose depart mcnt has been drawn indirectly into the investigation by the suggestion that il might have been the cause Of any leak regarding the dispatch of the note, and Joseph Tumulty sccrc- tary to the president. whose name was mentioned yesterday by Repre- sentative Wood, instigator of the in quiry, notified the ruies committee today that they wished to appear and make statements.
 Subpoenaes for seven newspaper men representing in Washington the Wall Street Journal Financial Amer ica, Central News of America and the New York Evening Sun. and they were ordered to bring their records with them. It is also understood that subpoenaes were issue] for Thomas w. Lawson, the Boston financier; Bernard Baruch of New York, Charles II. s,adin. president of the Guaranty Trust company. and manager of the two telegraph dompanlos, who will be asked about messages passing over their wires on the day the peace no.e was given in confidence to newspaper correspondents.
 MT. Lawson. who has made sensa- tional charges of leak" to Wal street. was declared today by Repre- sentative Chipperfield of Illinois, Re- publican member of the rules commit tee. 10 have been the principal benc- ficiary of the falling market that fol- lowed publication of the note. He said LawsOn's transactions had aggre- gated S3OOO0O on tha! market
 "Ticker" FOrecaSted Note.
 Representative Gardner of Massa Ghusetts told the committee he had no evidence involving any body in of ficial life, but was convinced there had been a leak" He produced copy that went over Dow & Jones' ticker in New York on December 20 forecasting the peace note ten hours before the note was published. MT. Gardner will be represented again before the committee by counsel, who will submit an analysis of the effects of the premature encouragement on the market
 Subpoenaes for the seven cores pondents of financial journals and as- sociations were issued after Repre- sentative Harrison, Democrat, had de- clared he believed the advance in formation of the note was sent to Wall street papers in breach of conf;- dence. He also criticised Represen tative Wood for giving out memo randa from "A. Curtis of New York, who gave no address and who has not yet been located without having made an effort to inquire into the genuineness of this information.
 Secretary Tumulty's statement de- nying the allegation in the memo randa that he and Mr Barudh con- ferred in New York prior to the publi cation of the note was put in the rec- ord, and a motion was adopted calling upon New York and Chicago Stock exchanges to preserve their broker age sales slips from December 10 to December 23,