Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-03
Satisfied There
 Was a ''Leak"
ccMMrTTEEMEN WHO ARE CON.
 QUOTING HEARING
BACK TO WASHINGTON
Photographers Testify That Message Was Not Sent Over connoIIy's Pri.
 vats Line-LooIoins for Missins Link,

New York, Feb. 2-Pressure of fn- ternational affairs today caused the congressional committee that has been Investigating the so-cAiled s.leaIrs' on President Wilson's recent peace note to transfer the inquiry to WashinEton. examination of witnesses will he re- stunned there tomorrow morning. Fur tner hearings on particularly pertinent iocai angles of the case probably will pc resumed here as soon as the com mitteemen think their coneressiouaI duties in Washington will permit.
 Hearing Transferred to Washinqton,
 The committee returned to Washing ton determined to inquire further into ConnoHy's advance resume of t5e presidents note from Connolly's Wash lngton brokerage office to E. F. Hutton & company, New York brokers. If posslple, George A. Ellis, IT,, a mem Der of the Hutton firm, who put Con- nolly's information into a teiegrapbie warning to all of Hutton's correspon- dents in the United States ten hours before the note was released. win be the first witness called Ellis was dTe oarrive in Washington tonight from Savannah, Ga.
 TeIe9raphers Dispute Connolly.
 Connolly's testimony that he sent his information in a message. by private wire from his office to tho Hutton house now has been disputed by every Fteiegrapher in Hutton's employ, who, according to Sherman l.. Whipple counsel to the committee, might have received the message. Joseph W Becker, the Connolly private wire op- orator in Hutton's office, first disputed Connolly's story on the stand yester day. and today other teIegraphers from the Hutton office who were exannfned oy Whipple swore they had not re- cefved it.
 Missing Link.
 Ery1-
 all telegraphers who may have han dled the message is that of the two operators in Connolly's office. They win be early witnesses
 Committeeman injected many dues- tons into the record today about tina possibility of telephonic connection be- tween the Hutton and Connolly houses when it developed that the private wire
 might be used either for telegraphing or telepT1oning- Records of ail Ioug distance calls between the two offices during the peace note periodS if any exist. will be subpoenaed
 Satisfaction was expressed by com mitteemen on starting back to Wash ington tonight over the results of the local hearings. That there was Teak" of some kind no longer Is seriously questioned by any of them. Discovery of its existence through the testi- mony of E. F. Hutton, head of the Hutton house, is conceded. HIS testi- mony was a surprise to the commit tee, none of its members suspecting before coming here that such mes sages as have been unearthed existed
 Close of Inquiry 10 imistant.
 So important are the Hutton-Con- nolly messages considered that the whole inquiry is now centered in un- folding all the facts surrounding them The close of the inquiry is distant apparently. for even after the subject of these messages shall have been ex- hausted the committee will have many other angles to investigate. A request for an extension of the time in which the committee shall report on it's in quiry to the house is expected. The present time limit will expire in about ten days.