Bisbee daily review., 1917-01-16
Bostoner Says Congressman Henry Told Him These and Other Higher Ups Were Gambling in Stocks.
BERNSTORFF MADE
 MILLIONS ON LEAK
Many Others High in U. s. Employ Implicated Many Big Business Men Are Sub poenaed by Congress.
(By Review Leased Wire.) ]

w. Lawson, haled before the House rules committee to tell what he knows of or had heard about a stock market leak on President Wilson's peace note calmly declared today that the con oressmen who tcld him a cabinet of ficer. senator and a banker were en- gagged in a stock gambling proposal was none other than Representative Henry. chairman of the committee. Then before his hearers had time to. recover from the shock. Lawson sprung one sensation after another by declar- ing that the cabinet officer referred to was Secretary McAdoo; that the banker was H. Pliny Fisk, of New York, and that he knew the senator only by the initial "O".
 BERNsToRFF PROFITS.
 To complete the sensation Lawson went on to charge that Paul NJ. War burg, of the federal reserve board, had knowledge of the leak machinery; re- peated a rumor that Count von Bern- storff, the German ambassador, had made two millions in the stock market, and mentioned list of we'll known men whom he thought should be ques- toned. The committee promptly is- sued subpcenas for all of them.
 Tumulty Besmirched.
 Mr Lawson said ne had been told that Malcolm McAdoo. the secretary's brother, knew of the leak, as did c. D. Barney and Company and Stewart G. Gibboney, of New York. A Mrs. Ruth Thomson Viscount, of this city, he said, had declared to him in the presence of her attorney that Secre- tary Tumulty received his bit" and that W. w. Pierce, one of the White House correspondents. was the go- tween for Tumulty and other" Pliny Fisk, Lawson said, was the banker he referred to previously as dominating a cabinet officer, and Archibald s. White. he said. had given this informa- ton.
 Henry Was Palliative.
 Representative Henry was said by Lawson to have told him at the con ference that preceded the opening of the leak investigation of reports con- meeting the cabinet officer, banker and senator, and also had told him of re- ports that Secretary Lansing had been seen conferring with Bernard Baruch. the Wall Street operator, said to have made a clean up on the falling market which accompanied the peace note.
 Tried to Suppress Him.
 Lawson declared Henry had asked him on patriotic grounds not to press his charges At no time the Boston financier testified he had direct in formation.
 Henry Denies 1t All.
 When Lawson had finished his re- cital, Chairman Henry took the stand and swore that at no time had he mentioned to Lawson the name the financier brought out on the witness stand; that he had no information then and none now of his own know ledge; and denied generally and com pletely all of Lawson's testimony re- lating 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 it up. Lawson said that immediately after leaving Henry at their first conference. he laid his in formation before John O'Hara Cos grave. Sunday editor of the New York World; Erman J. Ridgway. president Of Everybody's Magazine. and Donald Mcdonald. publisher of a Boston tinan- cial paper. Gall these men," he demanded. and they will bear me out in what say"
 Won't Be Goat"
 Almost in tears at Henry's absolute denial of his statements, Lawson shouted:
 'I'll make good here. and won't go to jail as the goat'
 Subpoena Many.
 Secretaries McAdoo and Tumulty and Mrs. Price at once issued state ments denying Lawson's reference to them. The committee promptly or dered subpoenas for Ridgeway, Cos grave, Warburg. Fisk. Price. White,
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