The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-31


10 be considered IL there is peace and
warning neutral rights must not be
further cncroached on. Full text to
hr given out tonight and will be look
% on as move of great moment
tSignedl &c. A e"
G; \. r, Is George A. Ellis. n mefn-
her or the Hutton firm.
Demand For Mr.. Ellis.
There was a prompt demand for the
appearance ~ Mr.. Ellis as soon as
this sensational testimony was sprung
upon the committee this afternoon. 1t
was met by tho statement that he is
III In Georgia. but that inasmuch as
Mr. Connolly furnished the Informal
ton on which the telegram Was writ
ten he would probably he able to
satisfy the committee Otherwise the
attendance of Mr.. Ellis upon the COM
mittce in Washington will he forced.
Has Mr. Connolly told you where
he got his information =" demanded
lnqulsit0r Whipple amid the silence
which fell upon the committee room
/ in the Custom House following the
reading OF The significant information
which had been sont out.
He said it was general gossip re-
piled Mr.. Hutton.
Previously before the vital matter
of the kilograms had been unfoIded
by him, the witness told of the organ
i2ation of the firm OF Connolly K Co.
and their negotiations with Hutton &
Co. relative to becoming the Wash
iugton agent
Mr. Boiling Discussed.
Did Nh Connolly tell you OF the
advantages that might be expected 10
accrue from this connection % asked
WhipPle.
In a general way" was the re-
/ ply.
~ptd You know at tho time who
Mr.. Boiling was?'
= knew he was a hrother-je-,aw
of Mr. Wilson"
Did Mr.. Connolly explain this to"
YOU at the time?"
"pld he make any comment about
1t = no
Boiling Had Nothing to Do With It,
Mr. Hutton emphaticaliy declared
that Mr., Boling's connection with the
firm had no bearing upon the alvices
they received from Washington.
An important fact in relation to the
revelations regarding the kilograms
warning of tho coming OF the peace
note was conveyed tonight in an ex-
tract from the testimony of Represen-
tatlve Mood OF Indiana, who was re-
sponslble for the investigation now
under way In his evidence before
the Rules Committee forecastinc the
kilograms made public today MI.
Wood said:
i viii state to this committee that
have information which | consider
entirely reliable that on Wednesday.
December 20, a confidential telegram
WAS sent TO a broker in Oshkosh. Wis +
stating what was going to happen
with reference to the sending of
message of Importance bearing upon I
the war in Europe
This telegram was received about
o'clock. II was sent by one +. w
Mckinuon. Of tho firm of Thompson
x Mckinnon. Of Chicago 1t was ad- .
dressed to Ralph r. Hartley. manager /
of tho branch office of that concern at
Oshkosh, and il was sent over a
private wire
Committee members were OF the
aptnton tonight that this either refers
to the message sent out by Clement
Curtis X Co. or is one Of chain OF
messages that must now inevitably he
run down before the investiga ton has
been ended.
Wasn't This Real Leak?
Final evidence of the serious aspect
which the investigation has suddenly
assumed is contained in the state
ment which Secretary OF state Lansing
made before the committee in Wash
ington as to the statement regarding
the note that he made to the news
paper correspondents. Mr.. Lansing
said:
AT II o'clock Ton the morning of
the 2oth). I interviewed the news
paper correspondents al the depart
ment and told them that I would
haro an important communication to
give them at o'clock in the after
noon | stated To- them that the COM
munication was. as | said, to all tho
helligerents. but it did not contain
proposals for peace or an offer for
mediation"
Comparison of this statement with
the Ellis dispatch, il was pointed out
tonight, shows that the Information
contained in the latter far exceeds any
possible Interpretation that might
have been put upon the meagre an
nouncement of Secretary lansing to
the press, and that the information on
which the Ellis dispatch was based
must in consequence come from a
better informed source.
Baruch On Stand
Bernard Baruch, Wall Street specu-
lator, $50, 600 contributor to the last
ltcIIioIi III campaign Iunu, ana
heavy short seller preceding the is
suance of President Wilson's recent
peace note. testified at the leak" in
quiry today that his profits on the
market between Decem Der 0 and De-
cember % were $476,l6S
Every cent of this proft, he de-
clared, was due to his foresight In in
terpreting speeches by Won Beth
mann-HollwSg and David I.loyd-
George as meaning peace was com
ing
Not a single transaction he made.
he said, was influenced by advance
information that the President was
about to dispatch peace note. He re-
ceived no such information, he as
/ serted.
AS proof of his assertion that he
was unaware that note was forth
coming from the President, he was
on the buying side OF the market
when news of it became public, he
said Neither he or any other man
would have been caught in such a
position, he declared, if he had fore
seen the note
Points Out Other Mistakes.
Baruch also pointed out several
other errors he made on the market
! during the thirteen days period of
his 4 Ing an,