The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-17
TO Extend Leak Investiga-
ton to Financial District
of New York.
NOTED MONEY KINGS.
CALLED TO TESTIFY
Lawson, Again on Stand, Re-
iterates Charges Against
Public Men.

washington. Jan. l6.-Sprcading a
"'ashet over the financial district OF
New York. the house rules committee
today extended the peace note leak in
vestigation to n general inquiry into
the stock market.
At IN executive meeting tho con,.
mittee considered the advisabi,itv. NJ
employing expert counsel familiar
with financial affairs to conduct the
examination of witnesses. II also
planned to ask congress tomorrow for
an extension of time to report.
AS the first step In enlarginE the
scope OF the hearings. the committee
snopocnnaaed J. r. Morgan. II. p. Ia
vison, +. a. Vanderlip. Arthur Inner.
SOL c. Wexler and ]. s. Bache, New
York financiars.
Mrs. viseonti Disappears,
Vying in interest with the ummnn.
ing OF the Witnesses was the tlisap-
pearance Of Mrs. Ruth Thomson Wis.
cont, who Thomas w. Lawson SAYS
told him Secretary Tumulty and others
mad profited in the stock market leak,
and that William NJ. Price. one OF the
White House correspondents. had
acted as the "go- between" in the AZ
fairs and received $1,000 for his work,
Sergeant at Arms Gordon and several
assistants tried IN vain to find Mrs
Visconti. Mr.. Lawson expressed great
surprise at her disappearance.
Mrs. Visconti surprised the searchers
tnhisht by rsaprcaring at the apart.
iheht house in which she lives and
which had been under snryelll.rrc
since last night. A deputy sergeant.
alarms promptly served n subpoena
directing her to appear before the
committee tomorrow morning. She
promised to be there and the officer
left her in The apartment.
| Lawson Again 10 Heard.
| Lawson. whose sensational tcsti-
| mony Yesterday aroused the com,ni4.
tee Ia 20 10 tho depths OF the leak
rumors, occupied the witness stand
again today.
Lawson attacked Representative
tlenrt's denial OF his Testimony and
emphatically declared that no or
Henry was guilty Of rank perjury. In
n characteristic ontburst lawson
shouted his reiteratlon that he had
told the truth.
| When there Ia a direct difference
OF opinion-stronge than a question
OF veracity---" said Lawson, .lt Ia per-
tectiy obvious that one or the other OF
us is committing perjury. deliberate,
rank perjury. Unless your chairman
said the things that have said he did.
am guilty of foul perjury and I am
unfit to be outside the bars OF a 1ail."
Elaborasss on Story.
Lawson again brought In the names
OF Secretary Lansing. Count Won
Rernstorff and Bernard naruch "A the
men about whom Chairman Henry had
told him he had heard leak rumo,r"
and elaborated on his story told yes-
terday regarding Henry's alleged state.
ments concerning them.
In that connection, in answer to In
aniries by Representative Garrett as
to what Henry told him about a .cab
met member member OF congress
and banker" Lawson said he never
had asserted that Henry had told him
anything about Secretary McAdoo, the
mysterious Senator o." and H. Pliny
FISK The cabinet member of whom.
Henry spoke, Lawson said, was Mr..
Lansing and the banker, Mr., Raruch.
The fact that Raruch as a "speculator
and investor" aud not a banker, had
led to misunderstanding in the COM
mittee regarding Lawson's previous
testimony. Information, Mr.. Lawson
said. which he received in regard to
McAdoo. Fisk and Senator O." came
from another source. which he did not
reveal
Goes Into Dstaiis.
The Boston financier insisted on re-
citing to the committee in great detail
the disputed confidential conference
with Chairman Henry. For more than
an hour he recounted what he had said
to Henry and what Henry had said to
him. With regard to his teatimony
yestreday. bringing In tho namAa OF
Secretary Lansing and Baruch, Law
son said that he had forgotten to add
that Henry had told him the commit
tee had received information concern
ing the substance Of all Of one OF Sec-
retary Lansing's alleged conversations
with Baruch in New York and part ol
another.
Lawson was questioned clooely ooa.
cerning the letter he received from
} Mrs. vfsconti. the message with Il and
his conferences with her at q local
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