Arizona republican., 1917-01-16

the firm of C. D. Barney and Com pany, in Wall Street; Malcolm McAdoo, brother of Secretary McAdoo, and Stuart G. Gibboney of the firm of McAdoo and Gibboney, with offices at the Grand Central station and at 165 Broadway, were the men to whom he referred. Speaking with emphasis he added that the public man who knew of the leak machinery was Paul War burg of the federal reserve board"
 Chairman Henry took up a list of cabinet officers and asked Lawson if he had connected" each of them with the leak. Coming to the name of Secretary Lansing. Lawson said he had not made a suggestion of him in the affair in connection with the names the congressman had given him as being parties to the leak"
 Do you refer to Secretary Lansing in any connecticut" MT. Henry asked.
 Yes" Lawson replied.
 Henry then accused Lawson of dragging the name of Lansing into the hearing and Lawson flared up furiously.
 T have held the name of Lansing and the German ambassador out of this he said. T have kept quiet when l have been charged with with holding information which l have not, and l have been libeled in the press of the country as a result. One of your own members has said on the floor that it was a matter of dispute as to whether 1 should be in jail or lunatlc asylum. l will not have this thrown on me"
 Lawson then related in detail how nc had come to Washington at the re- of fflf T called on him at his offices; how Hen ry had told him that he wanted his Aelp to run down the leak charges.
 'I told him that the only thing to be done was to get first hand infor- nation and to get 1t from other people, said Lawson T said that I would not give him hearsay informa- uoni that my principal reason was that l did not want to besmirch any one unjustly but 1 declared that I could give him formula for getting all the information through a real investiga- tion.
 T asked him what the committee had heard. He said the committee al- ready had heard that Secretary Lam sing had gone 10 the Biltmore hotel in New York four times to meet Bernard Baruch The chairman also said that he believed Secretary Lansing abso- lutely innocent of giving any confiden- tial information and he asked me what l thought about it.
 Il said I will stake my head on it that Secretary Lansing did not do anything wrong I also said that I thought Secretary Lansing might have given information that was perfectly lair for any man to give.
 Chairman Henry also told me that there had come to the committee g re- port that the German amba ssador had profited S2,000, ,000 but he said he did not think there was any truth in it."
 Lawson further declared that Henry pleaded with him at the end of their second conference tC cease urging an investigation of the leak" charges. It would be a serious thing to the coun- try, Lawson quoted Henry as saying. to have an inquiry at this time. It might | be possible, Lawson said Henry | pointed out. to inaugurate a wide iu luiry into the stock market sitis.. ion h the course of thirty days or so.
 At that point Lawson reiterated his statement that he never told Henry nor mad he told anyone, that he had direct information regarding a leak. In the midst of Lawson's remarks Chairman Henry rose from his seat in l the center of the committee table and started around toward the witness ! chair telling Lawson that he would be | excused temporarily
 l Representative Pou assumed the ! chairman's seat. and Henry. taking the stand. began a statement He first re- viewed the introduction of ,he leak resolution of Representative Wood or 1 ladidna. told Of seeing Iawson's ] charges n "a ,,o,--. was Teak" and gradually led up to l-awson's visit to Washington to con fer with him.
 Henry, leading up 10 their conference i January 2. said:
 T told Mr. Lawson shat this vas st very lmportan. and serious matter and that Tn so far as 1 was personally con- | cerned l would impose no restriction of ! confidence. but that if he had any facts | that he thought he should give in con- tldence l would respect his confidence asked him over and over again to name any man who might have 1 knowledge of the leak
 lie did not name q single person and did not name one. Here today I de- clare that during our three hours' con - versation I did not mention the name 1 or any cabinet officer he has mentioned | here today"
 Later Henry made his statement even broader. declaring he did not men 1 tlon the name of any of the persons ] Lawson had declared he named.
 say to you now" he declared with l Pr-at emphasis. leaning over iowa I'd s l it committee, that never ,oertioned 1 me name of banker. senator, nor 4 l government official to him I have no rear oi my reputation in the house or ] in the country and what this gentle man says here today doesn't even dis 1 tIlrb me"
 1 Henry then referred to a communi- ! cs.tio,i Lawson had sent him early in january asking that an inquiry into the stock exchange be inauguratnd and
 tiat ne be put in charge of it. Lawson said Tn the letter that he would like fo nave cnarge like sam Unternyer did
 ID the Pujo Investigation" If he could
 not produce valuable evidence. Law
 son letter continued, he would be
 "liling to be 1gnominiously fired"
 After that, Henry exclaimed dram atlcany, ne comes and tells this house ana the country that he got his in- l formation from me"
 Then turning upon Lawson. Henry shouted:
 MT Lawson, I could say more. Sohio take another course, but I
 have made my statement and submit
 to the house and to the country" l Lawson started to reply but wa s 1 checked by Henry, who asserted that | nc did not wish to enter into any colloquy with him. The chairman l then placed himself before the com ! rCA