The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-16

tinued. I'VE had agreed on one. He
had said, You word it, / did, and
he said it was fair to both sides end
we shook hands on it. VIXEN IL cad
his statement it appeared slnfan.
'It looked as II in the three hours
and a quarter he had asked me over
and over again to give him names
and that. I had failed"
He wanted Cosgrove and Ridgway to
hear his story, he~said, because they
were men of long experience in hand
ling investigations. and he desired to
now whether they thought he should
drop the entire affair or if he owed
it to the public to go further.
Representative Garrett objected to
Lawson repeating his conversation
with those men, on the ground that
they did not tend to cast any light
ON the case.
Representative Campbell then
changed the form of questioning
slightly apd Lawson continued to re-
peat his conversation with Henry.
II will say in view of all that has
occurred here" Lawson declared.
''that lit is right that you should hear
all I have to say. When there is
direct difference of opinion--strdnger
than veracity-raised it is perfectly
obvious that one or the other of us is
committing Observation-Disclosures rank
perjury. This is no syndicate or na7
tional bank meeting. This, is meet
ing of a high committee of Congress.
In my opinion there is nothing of
greater Importance than for your
committee to arrive at a fair and hon
est decision, and to do that you must
hear what I have to say"
Representatives Garrett, Foster and
others objected to Lawson's argument
and there was a stormy wrangle, dur
ing which Lawson shouted his insist
ance that he should be heard fully
Chairman Henry ruled that hel
would be given an opportunity to tell
all he wanted.
Lawson resumed his narrative of
his meeting with Henry, reiterating
that the chairman told him the leak
was too serious for an investigation
at this time, but that he feared a
general inquiry later into the stock
market Lawson said he Endorsed
that and revealed to Henry that he
had much to do with the money trust
inquiry, though Henry, a member Of
the committee, was unaware of it.
Il told him." Lawson said. that L
dug up much of the information. I'm,
termyer went to Europe while did it.
! personally paid the bills of the ex-
perts, upward of $4,000, and asked for
no glory except to appear as a wit.
ness.
-" Here is a chance told Henry,
to duplicate that. 1t is the greatest
thing that can be done for the Am
erican people"
"Go to Wall street and set UP shop"
was the advice Lawson said he gave
Henry. There, he said, all of the
stock exchange members could be
with their books and clerks
and forced to reveal the inside OF
Referring again to his conference
with Henry, mentioning Secretary
Lansing and Bernard Baruch, Lawson
declared Henry told him the commit
tee had the substance OF all Of one
of Lansings talks at the Biltmore
with the New York broker and the
substance of another.
81 said to Henry, Go through it
from A to T." Lawson testified,
. and before you are one-third done
the lid will be blown off. Congress
will know, the world will know who
the hypocrites are that are making
Millions That was what we talked
about in the three hours and quarter,
[ was with him.
HE asked me one thing before we.
left the meeting: Il ask you to do
this he said. HThrow the newspaper
men off the scent. We cannot gain
anything by letting them know that
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