The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-08
STOCK MARKET LEAK" CLAIMS
THE ATTENTION Of CONGRESS.
PROMINENT MEN WILL
GIVE EVIDENCE TODAY
Lawson Arrives in Washington
to Testify-Mass Of Busi-
ness for Both Houses. :.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-Consress-
ional interest centers chiefly this
week in the hearing to be resumed to.
morrow by the House Rules Commit
tee on the Wood resolution for an In
yestigation into the alleged leak 70
the stock market on President VIII
sons peace note. The hearing already
has assumed the proportions OF g. pre-
llminary inquiry into series OF ru-
mors that have been circulating Tor
weeks.
Tonight Thomas W. Lawson, Of Boz
ton, who has been making charges
ever since the agitation OF tho SUB
iect began, arrived in Washington IN
response to a committee subpoena to
give testimony. Others who are to ap.
pear before the COMMITTEES tomorrow
are Secretary of State Lansing, in
whose department the peace note orig
mated; Joseph P. Tumulty. secretary
of the President; Charles H. Sabin,
president of the Guaranty Trust Com.
nany Of New York: Bernard Barucb,
Otto Kuhn, of Kuhn, Loeb and Com
pany; Judge William NJ. K. Olcott, OF
New York, special counsel for Repre-
sentative Gardner Of Massachusetts.
engaged to show the fluctuations OF
the stock market on the day before the
note officially was made pubic. ana
Washington representatives or the
Wall Street Journal. Financial Amer
ica, and the Central News Association;
Managers of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies local
branches also have been asked to pro.
duce dispatches filed by these news
organizations bearing on the subject
oF tho Daacn note
Attention To Legislation
While this inquiry attracts wide
spread attention, congressional leaders
are not losing sight Of the mass OF leg
islatiye work that remains to be done
and the limited time left In which 10
do it before March four II an extra
session is to be avoided. Railroad leg.
islation earnestly desired by President
Wilson is in embryonic shape, hear
ings on the subject still lbeing held ny
the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce and new bills having been
submitted independently by Represen'
tative Adamsop, chairman OF the
House Interstate and Foreign Com.
merce Committee.
Appropriations have made some pro-
press in the House In the last few
days. but none in the Senate except
in the Appropriations Commttee ano
the coming week viii be devoted by the
Senate almost exclusively to general
measures and executive business.
Tuesday the Senate will dispose .ot
The Sheppard bill to prohibit the man.
ufacture and sale Of liquor In the DIS
trict = Columbia. Prohibition organl>
zatior of the whole country are
watc .ng this measure with active m
teres and opposing an amendment py
Sena ,or Underwood, OF Alabama
which would submit the question 10
referendum Of the voters OF the DIS
trict of Columbia. The vote on the
referendum in the Senate is expected
10 be very close but whatever the re-
suit, the whole matter is yet 10 De
passed upon by the House.
Waiting Senate action also 9 the
revised corrupt practices bill: ana con-
servation legislation, particularly the
mineral lands leasing bill. Wednesday
the Senate will vote on the nomination
of Winthrop NJ. Daniels to succeed
himself on the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Despite vigorous oppo'
.-o-..a IN NauA EfR1Al