The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-16
LAWSON ACCUSES
M'AD00, HENRY,
1UMULiy
Boston Broker shocks Investiga-
ton at Washington
HORNETS NEST STIRRED UP
Lawson Doesn't Claim to Know But
Tells What He Heard and That
Makes the Sparks Fly.

Thomas w. Lawson, hailed before
the House rules committee at Wash
ington to tell what he knew or had
heard about stock market leak on
President Wilson's peace note or be
punished, calmly declared yesterday
that the mysterious congressman
who told him cabinet officer, sen.
ator and banker we're engaged in a
stock gambling pool was none other
than Representative Henry. chairman
OF the committee. Then, before his
hearers had time to recover from the
after the other by declaring that the
cabinet officer referred to was Secre-
tary McAdoo; that the banker was H.
Pliny Fisk of New York. and that he
knew the senator only by the
initial 90"
To complete the explosion, Lawson
went on to charge that Paul M. War
burg OF the federal reserve board had
knowledge of the leak machinery; re
peated a rumor that Count Won Bern
storff, the German ambassador, had
made s2,000,000 in the stock market,
and mentioned a list of well-knOwn
men who, he thought, should be ques'
toned. The committee promptly is
sued subpoenas for all Of them.
Mr.. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo. the secretary's s
brother. knew of the leak, as did c. ID.
Barney & Co. and Stuart G. Glib
honey of New York. A Mrs. Ruth
Thomason visconti Of Washington, he
said, had declared to him in the pres
ence of her lawyer that Secretary Tu-
multy received his bit" and that w.
w. Price, one of the White House
correspondents, was the go-Detween
for Tumulty and others" II. Pliny
Fisk, Mr.. Lawson said, was the bank
er to whom he referred previously as
dominating @ cabinet officer, and
Archibald s. White. he said, had Civ
en- him this information.
Representative Henry was said by
Lawson to have told him. at the con-
ferences that preceded the opening OF
the leak investigation. of reports con
Meeting the cabinet officer, banker
and senator, and also to have told
him OF reports that Secretary Lans-
ing had been seen comforting with
Bernard Baruch, the Wall-street oper-
ator, said to have made a cleanup on
the falling market which accompa-
MED the peace note.
Lawson declared Henry had asked
him on patriotic grounds not to press
his charges. At no time. the Boston
flnancier testified. did he every say he
had direct information.
When Lawson had finished his re.
cital, Chairman Henry took the stand
and swore that at no time had he men
toned to Lawson the names the finan'
cier brought out on the witness
stand; that he had no information
then and had none now of his own
knowledge; and denied generally and
completely all of Lawson's testi
mony relating to him.
When he had concluded, Lawson
rose and solemnly declared that every
word he had uttered on the stand was
the truth, so help me God, without
variation" To back 1t up, Lawson
said that Immediately after leaving
Henry at their first conference he
laid his in formation before John
OHara Gosgrave. Sunday editor oi
the New York World; Erman j. Ridg
way president of Everybody's Maga
zine, and Donald Mcdonald, publisher
of Boston financial paper. Gal
these men, he demanded, "and they
will bear me out In what say" AL
most in tears at Henry's denial of his
statements. Lawson shouted: III
make good here, and won't go to jail
as the goat"