Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
ION MAKES HIS CHARGES.
20, Tumulty, Henry and Others
II Enter Flat Dcnials.


Wh9NgIfos. w. Lawson referred in
hissSfseYious testimony before the
"leaRA investigators as being con-
nec@W he said, with leak" on
PreA3dent Wilson's recent peace mes
sageA Lawson testified to-day when
the MRnse rules committee resumed
the Niestigation.
HHWSOn had been asked If he was
preNAted to offer proof Of his state
menXAhat there were beneficaries OF
theASlsak" among lawmakers and
othSB& He then took from his
poGksEa letter which he asked to sub
mitsM private. The committee in
sistddlthat he read it. The letter was
froM,Mrs. Visconti.
mEletter, which Lawson read fol-
fa6Dcar Mr.. Lawson: If the
narl1s5pf the man who was the go-be-
tWsssfsin the present leak and the
amount Of money be Of assistance to
youssI!can supply the name and the
amQlt he received and give the
nafn8bf at least one associate at the
WhttessHouse who participated in the
ThSletter went on to offer to make
all AHpointment, which Mr.. Lawson
madsNtth Mrs. Visconti, who, in the
preserve Of her attorney, gave him
thaSnHnle of Mr.. Price and Secretary
| SAsMd bM Representative Henry
| whpshAI Imeant when he said he could
giYestbP name of a go-between who
reEe3ge} q large sum for "his Bit"
LaSfsol{ said he referred to the name
gtvEnf by Mrs. Viscontb as "Sec-
retaEN Cnmulty.
LaWlon testified that Chairman
Hehryf0f the rules committee, was
hesR9resentatifc who told him that
a. nabHet officer, member of Con-
gtsss Md banker were said to have
prQhtd IN the stock market by ad-
vanGednformation on President Will
solfs Sfecent peace note.
4tIaH Hsnh said that the banker who
tolaa hm he knew another banker
IWhG Eliminated cabient officer in
A AEehibald s. White,
ftnfltee; Immediately issued subpoe-
ma for White.
Tumulty Brought In.
Lawson also testified that Mrs.
Ruth Thomson Visconti, of Washing
ton, had told him that w. w. Price,
correspondent Of the Washing gton
Star at the White House, had a part
in the leak affair between Secretary
Tumulty and others.
| Lawson said he could not give the
names Of any members of Congress
who were engaged in buying and sell
ing stocks.
Another banker in the trinity to
whom Lawson referred as having also
been involved in the leak" was II.
Pliny Fiske, OF Harvey, Fiske &
Sons, New York. The Senator Law
son said, was known to him only as
"O."
Lawson also declared that the firm
Of G. d. Barney e Co., of Wall street,
and Malcolm McAdoo, brother Of Sec
retary McAdoo, and Stewart G. Glib
honey. OF New York, knew of the
leak. and that ''public man who
Warburg, of the Federal Reserve
Board.
Lawson indirectly brought the
names of Secretary Lansing and AM
bassador Bernstorff into the hearing,
but not in connection with the leak.
When Henry charged him with
dragging in the name of Lansing,
Lawson replied:
81 have held the names of Lansing
and the German ambassador out of
this"
Lawson said Henry had told him
of rumors that Barney Baruch was
connected with the leak"
| Asked for other persons who might
substantiate leak" charges, Lawson
said he would suggest calling j. r.
Rathon, managing editor Of the Prov
idence Journal, in connection with an
article on "leaks" which appeared in
his paper, and also the editor OF the
Boston Transcript. which paper, he
said, had 'nat-footed" statement
that a certain brokerage firm had
dealt in 100000 shares of steel on
December 20, which netted a profit
Of $8,00O,OO0.
Asked as to the name Of the attor-
ney who visited him with Mrs Wis
CONT, Lawson said he was member
| Of local firm called Drown &
| Brown, or "Butler & Butler"
Says Henry Told Him.
Lawson said Henry had told him
information had come to the commit
tee that the German ambassador had
profited over two million dollars, but
that he did not think 1t was true.
Describing his visit to Chairman
Henry, Lawson said that Henry had
told him of rumors that had come to
the com mittee that Secretary Lansing
had gone to the Biltmore Hotel in
New Yprk to meet Barney Baruch
four tines, but that he (Henry)
thou ught his visits were perfectly le-
gitimate. 81 told Henry" said Law
son, that would stake my head on
1t that Secretary Lansing was not
telling anything he ought not to-"
Lawson declared that Henry had