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WASHINGTON, January liam.
bassadors Won Bernstein, representa- tive
Of the Kaiser in this city, has been
dragged into the dramatic disclosures
which Thomas /. w. Lawson, Boston
banker and broker and sensation max.
or, yesterday made to the house com
mittee' on rules in the investigation
that body is conducting into the al
legged ''leak, - whereby diplomatic SO.
crets weke allowed to become tools for
moneysmaking on Wall Street.
Probe of the alleged aleak'' went to
Wall Street itself yesterday. Lawson
took the stand and reported in sub
stance his sensational assertions which
involved an unnamed senator and Sec.
rotary Of the Treasury McAdoo, as well
m Chairman Henry of rne house rules
COMMITTEES, the committee session again
furnishinee startling allegations con.
corning advance Information of conf
Dental diplomatic matters reaching
stock spectators.
On examination by 1.-The committee,
Lawson told ~Sgain Of his alleged con.
versation with, Chairman Henry. The
committee has now extended its field
Of inquiry TO Wall Street. and among
the promipepte hnanciers who have been
Summoned tb'tebtify are the following:
Bankers Are oaIlsd
J. P. Morgan, head of J. P. Morgan
& Company H. P. Davidson, one Of
the Morgan partners; Frank A. Van
derlip, president Of the National City
Bank Of New York; Sol Werler Of New
Orleans, and Arthur Upper, well-known
bankers also. The PurPese AZ summon-
ing these men has not been disclosed
by the committee. NJ Ei
Today Lawson amplifed his sensa.
tionAl allegations, 81 yesterday where.
in. he was understood to say that
Chairman Henry himself was the mys.
terious congressman who was his in
formant, on several of the matters TO
which, he testited. Lawson declared
today that information has also come
to him from another source. Z.
No Mention OF McAdoo "a
He said today, too, that Henry did
not mention McAdoo. Henry, he de.
clared, had repeated the rumor that
Count 4, Al. Won BernstuTff, the Ger
man ambassador, had made two mil.
lions in the stock market, and that
Secretary. of State Lansing and Ber-
nard Baruch,, the New York broker,
had conferred in New York. I
Mrs Ruth Tominsoai Viscantis OF
Washington, who figured in the testi
mony yesterday when Lawson quoted
a letter frem her TO back up some OF
his statemepts, u Aow the object of 9
search NJ "a ~ 44S n 1..l ia4,
She, A. Is said, offered Lawson the
information IN n, letter, later telling
him that Tumnlty and W. w, Price, q
Washington correspondent, had profted
d. by the leak. She has suddenly dis
appeared and the sergeant. alarms /.
making 'fruitless efforts to hnd her &C
that she may be subpoenaed.
Lawson Gives Details r.. '..... ~.
Lawson today went into great de
tail as 10 the substance of his CONVEX
sation with Chairman Henry, with
journalists in New York.. of whom he
asked advice with bankers and others
His main statement was confined to his
talks with Henry. ..... IT
Secretary Tumulty, McAdoo, Price
Paul Warburg, the banker who has also
been named during the Lawson test
mony, and others are awaiting to testi
fly under oath. Y. ~ Il.
Bernard Baruch Is heavy Wal
Street operator, a member Of the Coun,
Gil on National Defense, an intimate
friend Of Secretary McAdoo and one
Of the heaviest contributors to the cam
paign fund Of President Wilson. The
report, referred to ia the room of til.
rules committee as one of the rumori
requiring investigation, is that BarucE
was in possession of the facts of I'll,
PresideptS peace note thirty minutes
before any information concerning Il
became public, during which thirty
minutes he sold $4,000 shares of steel
common short ON rising market
cleaning up a fortune when the Presi
dents action became known and the
market broke with a rush.
The public account of the campaign
fund fled W. the Democratic National
COMMITTEES with the clerk of the house
shows that Mr.. Bafuch was apSontfibu,
tor to the Democratic campaign to The
extent of $4,000 ~ $4,000 September
20, $4,000 October 9and $40, 900 No
yember -. ssA = .' p,