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o'clock"
$50 L met Mr. Henry again at 3
O'clock" Lawson continued. ''He said
to me: Lawson, I'm sorry that we
can't do what you say. L agree with
you that it is a great thing and good
thing, and all 1 regret is that l am
going out of office on the fourth Of
March,
II said that there was time enough
yet to do something. Then Henry
said that since we had parted in the
morning he had thought it all over and
tnat he had come to the conclusion
that the matter was too serious to be
made public now. He then added:
What do you say if we get at it again
in 80 days.?
''I said, not at all. I would be side
tracked by that time and we will
never have this opportunity again
Estate the way the names came to
be mentioned first, in your interview
with Mr.. Henry" said Representative
Campbell, Republican.
'I entered the room and the chair
man said nice things to me. He
wheeled up a chair and said: Take
comfortable one 1 asked him to
have one of my cigars and he asked
me to have one of his cigarettes.
'Iilen he said: Lawson, we've
been through these things and now let
us be fair with each other. I said
to him that I thought his committee
would dispute his right to hold a star
chamber session of this matter and
that I probably should have to talk
to the committee.
'He said: No, it's my duty to
do this. There are hundreds Of
things that come before this COM
mittee, many of them worthless
charges and it is my duty to sift
them and to see whether they should
be given to the committee
Very WE'LL said, but it is un-
derstood that we are to think out
loud We shook hands on it and
Henry said That's it exactly. What's
proper to give to the public or the
committee we'll give and what isn't
we'll hold in confidence I said
that was agreed"
Now I said, don't ask me to
give names of men who have told
me things in confidence and we had
quite a long talk about that and
finally he said: '''All right, but
some time I am going to have those
names and there won't be any investi-
CATION"
''Then Mr.. Henry said: TO show
you where we stand, I'll tell you some
of the things we've got. We have
it that Mr. Baruch who made large
contributions to the Democratic
campaign fund had four converse
tons with Secretary Lansing
That's going some,' I replied
-Four of emp
"'Yes,' he answered, four of
them and then he added forgot to
state this yesterday-'we have the
conversation at one of the inter-
views and part Of the conversation
of another. We also have it that
Count Won Bernstorff the German
ambassador, is SO mixed up in it that
he had made over $2,OOO,000. We've
got it, up to $2,000,000.'
'"Then I said to Henry: Mr.. Chair
man, it doesn't seem to me that you
need me in order to start an investi-
cation
'"Then Henry said to me: DO you
think Barlch could be mixed up in it
this way, using his friendship in such
way and involving the integrity Of
the Democratic party?
I think he would be the last man
in the world to do such a thing and I
will stake my head that Secretary
Lansing would not take postage
stamp of profit out of such transact
TONS I said, even though these
things were floating all around him.
Then Henry asked me how these
things could happen and I told him
that there had been big conspiracy
in Wall street for months and that
thic alo
told him how Mexican war informa-
ton had been peddled, how situations
were made to be and I said to a man
like Baruch in the market, Keeping
posted naturally, if he unearthed any
Information through rumor or other
wise and was certain that people were
making enormous operations, would
take advantage of the market
Again repeating what he alleged
Henry said to him about Secretary
Lansing and Ambassador Won Bern
storff, Lawson added that on repeat
ing the rumor about the Ambassador,
Henry had said: do uithink that it
is possible?"
An extended discussion over wheth-
err Henry had said the rllmors had
come to the committee or to him per-
sonally followed, and Lawson said he
was not certain how the chairman had
expressed it.
Representative Garrett then request
ed Lawson to detail just what he said
the chairman told him about Secre-
tary McAdoo, banker and a senator
Lawson insisted that the impression
that he had coupled their names with
Chairman Henry's statement was
erroneous. That Information, he said,
same from another source which he
did not name.
Henry mentioned only Baruch,
Lansing and Count Won Bernstorff,' -
Lawson declared.
Representative Lenroot, Republic
can, said he thought it only fair to
state that in the prepared questions
agreed on by the committee and
handed to Chairman Henry the names
of the cabinet member and the
banker had not been asked for. but
that they had been included in the
questions by the chairman when he
propounded them to Mr.. Lawson
This led up to Mr.. Lenroot asking for
a detailed account of Mr.. Lawson's
alleged conversation with Archibald
s. White about Pliny Fisk's alleged
relations with Secretary McAdoo.
Lawson testified that he met White
at a hotel in New York some time late
in December and spoke to him about