The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-01-12
INQUIRY INTO LEAK
LEADS IN INTEREST
Lansing, Lawson and Tumuliy
Appear Before House Rules
Committee.

nEtou--t'onEressionsi interest
csu,ers chiefly this week In the hear
inE by tho house rules committee on
tho Wood resolution for On InscS,isa'
ton into the alleged leak" 10 the
stock market Of advance information
on President Wilson's peHc" note,
Through . bewildering maIe Of Inti'
nations and heated eolloquies. which
turned the hearing into an uproar. the
houss rules committee wrestlod With
Thomas W. Lawson. of Boston. "a OBJ
tain definite information 10 substan'
tiAls the stories Of . leak" 10 Wall
stree, In advance oi the presidents
peace note.
Representative Bennct demanded
that lawson tame the man who he
says told him . New York broker 9
cabinet official and . United States
senator participated In 9 stock Eamb'
ling partnership. lawson at first
flatly refused for tNo reasons. one
thst he already waa cited for contempt
and the other tha, he did not think II
necessary 20 EI,e the names ., this
time.
lawson finally promised tho house
rules committee he would disclose the
names of tho cabinet official. tho sen
ator and tho New York banker who
he says . member Of congress told
him we're engaged In a stock gambling
partnership. II the house ordered an
investigation 80 . resul, Of the rules
committee preliminary hearings.
Tvmvi,y cstssorlealiy Denies.
Hacked with an Endorsement BY
President Wilson. Secretary Tumul,y
made the following statcmen, 10 the
house rules committee:
4 appear before this committee 10
resent the unjust intlmatlon that I
save Information to Mr.. D. n. Barueh.
in regard TO the soealled peace note
sent 10 the European belllgerents last
month BY the secretary OF state, This
iniimation Was contained iu n state
ment made to this committee by Rep
rcEentative Wood. OF Indiana
4 wish 90 deny generally and ape'
officially that I gave advance lniorma'
tion 20 Mr., Barueh or 20 anybody else
IN regard &c the peace note. did not
know of the existence OF this note or
that this government contemplated
the dispatch OF such . note until after
printed copies Of the note had been
given TO representatives Of the press
BY the state department
Lansing Tells History Of Note.
Secretary Lansing, Of the state de-
psr,ment. took the stand 10 aster, he
had no knowledge Of advance intorma'
tion circulated regarding the note.
Secretary Lansing related the physi'
cal history Of the note. how II was pre-.
pared, through whose hands Il passed.
and OF his participation In its prepara'
tlon. He also told Of . statement he
had given In confidence TO newspaper.
men on the morning before the note
was made public, In which he told
them 10 expect note at o'clock .hat
afternoon, He did not 30 into details
with the correspondents, he said, but
did cay Il vas not proposal for peace
nor an offer Of mediation.
Bernard Baruch, OF New York. de.
MED that no had any advance iniorma.
tIon regarding President Wilson's re-
cent peace note.
Baruch was named by the myster.
ious "A. Curtis" In q letter 10 Repre-.
sentative Wood, OF indiana, as having
pren,ed largely by "leak" information
on the note by selling short" on
United States Steel.
n. W. Boiling. q brother.in.law Of
President Wilson and member OF
p. A. Connolly q Co.. brokers, Wash.
ington, denied he knew anything OF
executive message until Il appeared In
the papers.
Senate votss 10 Make Capital ory.
Designed to abolish saloons In the
nationsi capital after November !.
1917. tho Sheppard bill was passed by
the senate and now goes to the house,
where, It's friends assert, Il 10 assured
OF passage. The vote In the senate
was So 10 90.
Willis the measure prohibits the
sale OF liquor In the District OF Co.
lumbia, II permits importation for per.
sonal use.
For the bill there were 20 democrat
and 81 republican votes, with % dem.
ocrats and 10 republicans against II.
All the progressivss voted for passage.