The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-17

can people,
 Go to Wall street and set up shop was the advice Lawson said he gave Henry"
 There. he said. all of the stock ex- change members could be summoned with their books and clerks and forced to reveal the inside of transactions.
 WHAT HENRY TOLD HIM
 Referring again to his conference with Henry, mentioning Secretary Lansing and Bernard Baruch, Lawson declared Henry told him the committee had the substance of all of one of Lansng't talks at the Biltmore hotel with the New York broker, and the substance of part of an- other
 T said to Henry: Go through it from A. to c., Lawson testified, and be- fore you are one-third done, the lid will be blown off. Congress will know and the world will know who the hyproctes are that are making millions That was what We talked in the three hours and one quarter l was with him."
 One thing he asked me before leaving the meeting was:
 q ask you to do this" he said, throw the newspaper men off the scent We cannot gain anything by let ting them know we are coming back here at o'clock"
 too lllct MT. Henry aSaln at 5 o'clock Lawson continued "He said to me: Lawson, I'm sorry that we can't do what you say. I agree with you that it is great thing. and a good thing, and all regret is that I am going out of offic+, on March A.
 I 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 that he had come to the conclusion that the matter was too serious to have made public now He then added What do you say if we get at it again in 30 days?
 T said: Not at all; it would be side- tracked by that time, and we will never have this opportunity again. HOW NAMES WERE MENTIONED
 State the way in which names came to be mentioned first in your interview with Mir. Henry said Representative Campbell, republican.
 T entered the room and the Chair man said nice things to me- He wheeled up chair and said: Take comfortable one. I asked him to have one of my cigars and he asked me to have one of his cigarettes.
 Then 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 committee, many of them worthless charges, and it is my duty to sift them, and to see whether they should be given to the committed
 Very we'll I said. But it is under stood h Inf alo "a shook hands on it and Henry said: That's it exactly. Whats proper to give to the public, or the committee, we'll give, and what isn't, we'll hold in confi- dence. I said that was agreed
 Now I said, don't ask me to give names of men who have told me things in ccnfldence and we had quite long talk about that and finally he said: All right, but sometime I am. going to have those names, or there won't be any in- vestigation.'
 Then MT. Henry said: TO show we stand square I'll stand here and tell you something. That MT. Baruch who made large contributions to the democratic campaign fund had four conversation with Secretary Lansing" said witness.
 That's going some,' I replied; four of 'em?'
 Yes he answered, four of 'em,' and tHci ic duQcu, I IOISOl tO Stdle tnlS yeS- terday, we have the conversation of one of the interviews and part of the conver- sation of another. We also have Count Won Bernstorff. the German ambassador, who is so mixed up in it that he made over $200O,OO0. We've got it up to $2,- 000OO0 now.
 Then said to MT. Henry: MT. Chair man, it doesn't seem to me that you need me in order to start an Investigation
 Then Henry asked me: Do you think Baruch could be mixed up in this way; using his friendships in such way, and involving the integrity of the democratic party
 Mir. Chairman I said, I think he would be the last man in the world to do such thing. and I will stake my head postage stamp of profit out of such transactions; 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 a big conspiracy in Wall street for months, and that this leak alone was not responsible. I told him how Mexican war information had been peddled; how situations were made to or der. and I said that man like Baruch in the market keeping posted, naturally, if he unearthed any information through rumor or otherwise, and was certain that Ieople were making enormous op- erations. would take advantage of the market. z
 
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