New Britain herald., 1917-01-05


 Representatlve Wood also declared that a Washington brokerage firm F. H. Conelly & company. of which "a Mr. Boiling" a brother of Presi- dent Wilson's wife, is @ member, had prof1ted by stock transactions during the market furry. The orders were transacted by the New York firm of F.. F. Hutton and company Wood said.
 Representative Wood said most of the statements he had made were based on information from A. Cur tis, Wall street broker. He did not have the letter with him but said he would produce it later.
 T am informed" Representative Wood testified. "that Barney Baruch had been informed of the note to the belligerents two or three days before it was sent and that onkwo or three occasions at about that time he was the Biltmore hotel in New York"
 Representative Bonnet of New York. a member of the committee, said on the house floor Wednesday that Baruch was represented in New York to have sold short shares of steel on rising market shortly be- fore the note was made public.
 Wants Lansing SubpoenaAd. s5.
 At the outset of the hearing Rep resentative Campbell of Kansas moved to subpoen Secretary Lansing. Secretary Tumulty, Baruch and Thomas w. Lawson. He was pre- vailed upon by other members to withdraw his motion but he said he would make it again later.
 Representative Wood objected strenuously to testifying in public. :
 What information he had regard ing the so-called leak. he said. was only hearsay and he feared that a public statement would interfere with the work of the committee in obtain ing witnesses.
 Representatives Chiperfield and Foster of Illinois and Harrison of Mississippi protested so vigorously against "star chamber" proceeding, that Representative Garrett of Ten nessee, who had moved that the ses- sion be made executive, withdrew his motion.
 Wood testified he had been in- formed that on Wednesday Dec. 20,
  on stocks s. B. Friday of Oshkosh had been sent by R. w. McKinnon of Thompson & McKinnon, brokers. of Chicago to Ralph H. Hartley, man. ager of their branch at Oshkosh, Wis. advising him that the president would have a message of importance soon and that he should advise friends and patrons of his office to sell short on stocks. g. B. Friday of Ohkosh was named by Wood as his inform ant.
 Early in the afternoon of the same day, Wood said he was informed, Lamson Brothers branch brokerage office in LaFayette, Ind, also received information from Chicago that the president was about to send Q peace note' ,-
 Rep. Wood requested that Otto Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb and company, New York, be subpoened and inter- rogated regarding what advance sn- formation he had if any about tho note.
 After Wall Street Records.
 A resolution offered by MT. Camp bell to ask the Now York stock ex- change to preserve all it's books and papers from Dec. 10 to the present date and another by Rep. Harrison of, Mississippi to make the same request of w. H. Hibbs and company and any other brokers in Washington, were approved.
 II have information also" Rep: Wood told the committee, that an ex- change firm here known as T. A. Conelly & company, of which a Mir. Boiling, a brother of the presidents wife, is a member, engaged in profit able transactions during the recent furry"
 Asked for the source of his infor- mation MT. Wood said that most of it came from A. Curtis, broker ard stock dealer in Wall street.
 ''Who gave you the information about Barney Baruch and Mr. 'i'u- multy%" Rep. Henry asked
 That came from Curtis."
 Did you see him and where"'
 No, I never saw him." Wood re- piled. "It came to me in . lctter''t
 Asked for the letter he said he did not have it with him, but would get 1t later.
 "Where did you get your information about the Conelly firm and the Mir. Boiling you spoke off"
 That has been common rumor,"