The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1917-01-18
LAWSON IS GUILTY IF
HIS STATEMENT UNTRUE

Lawson was called again To-Day "Ae'
the house rules committee resumed
its leak" investigation hearings. H'
dramatically told the committee tina
unless your chairman said what
sav he said |, am guilty of foul per
Jury and unfit to be anywhere out
side Of the bars OF a prison. - Pau
NJ, Warbure. of the federal reserve
hoard. issued a statement denylhe
knowledge of leak except through
the newspapers. He stated that ne
was anxious to testify.
Replying to questions put by Rep
resentative Campbell, Lawson Saio
that he asked several New YORK pup
uehcrs for advice as to whether t'
On further with the leak inVeStlSA'
tion or drop the entire matter. lie
said that he said much more than he
related yesterday. He said that ne
laid Chairman Henrys statement i'll
the press of that morning before then.
calling attention to the unfair slant
if ook. He said he first called on
ohm O'Hara COsg rove of the ne"
York World and that he saw Her
man Ridgeway on January 3rd al the
Belmont hotel, New York, anG Sa"
Donald Mcdonald at breakfast jan
nary 3rd and told him of the thlhs"
that had happened and asked his ad-
vice on them.
Lawson Withdlaws Statement
Thos. W. Lawson this morning
withdrew the sta emetn that Chair
man Henry mentioned Secretary NC
Adoo in connectio with the the al
Iced leak. He said the information
came from another source. LAWSON
said that Mrs. Ruth Thomson VS.
CONT. who wrote him letter stateG
that William VI. Price, white house
correspondent, received $4,000 IN
cash and that Secretary Tumulty re-
ceiyed a much larger sum, Lawson
declared that the woman said mat
Price acted as a "go-between" Iumul-
ty and the others. J. p. Morgan, j.
S. Bache. Henry P. Davidson, FRANK
A. Vanderlip. Arthur Upper, and
Sol. c. Wexler have been subpoenaed
on motion of Repl lesentative Harri-
son. No reason was given out FOR
this.
During his testimony Lawson de
scribed his conference with Chair
man Henry. He declared that Henr!
said that he matter was too impor-
tant to make public NOW" and sug-
gested that he wait for thirty days.
Repeating what he alleged Chair
man Henry said about Secretary Lam
sing and Ambassador Bcrnstorff,
Lawson added that upon repeating
the rumor about the ambassador, Mr..
Henry said: DO you think it is pos.
sible?" An extended discussion over
whether Henry said the rumors came
10 the committee or to him personal
" followed. Lawson said that he was
not certain how the chairman eX-
pressed it.
Representative Farrell then asked
Lawson to detail just what he said
the chairman told him about Secre-
tary McAdoo, the banker and the
senator. Lawson insisted that the
impression that he coupled the names
with Henrys statement was erron-
eous and that the information, he
said came from another source, and
which he did not name. Henry only
mentioned Baruch, Lasing ad Count
Vo Bernstorff. Lawson declared. He
refused to give Chairman Henry the
names. He declared taht the chair
man asserted that unless he got the
names there would be no investiga-
ton. He advised Chaiunan Henry to
take the committee to New York and
to subpoenae the brokers books and
CLERKS. Lawson told of conference
which he had with New York pub
fishers and said that he wanted their
advise.
Representative Lenroot said that he
thought it only fair to state the
names of the cabinet member and
banker. which were not asked for in
the questions agreed upon by the
committee and handed to Chairman
Henry. But they have been included
in the auctions by the chairman when
he propounded them to Lawson.
Tumulty "ReceiyeG His Bi."
Mr.. Lawson said that he had been
told that Malcolm McAdoo, the Sec
retary's brother, knew of the leak, as
did C. d. Barney and Company, and
Stewart G. Gibboney, of New York.
Mrs. Ruth Thompson Visconti of this
city, he said, had declared to him in
the presence of her attorney that
Secretary Tumulty received his bit,
and that w. w. Price, one of the
white house correspondents, was THE
so-between" for Tumulty and Others
II. Pliney Fiske, Lawson said, was
ly as dominating a cabient officer
and Archibald S. White, he said, hao
the banker he referred to previous
given him this information.
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