New Britain herald., 1917-01-16
MORGAN ID APPEAR
 AT LEAK HEARING
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! (Continued from First Page) his meeting with Henry, reiterating 1 that the chairman told him the leak was too serious for an investigation at l this time, but that he favored gen. eral inquiry later into the stock mar ket. Lawson said he indorsed that and revealed to Henry that he has much to do with the money trust in- quiry, though Henry, a member of the committee, was unaware of 1t. 1T told him." Lawson said, "that dug up much of the information Untermeyer went to Europe while I did it. I personally paid the bills of 1 the experts, upwards of $4O,000 and l asked for nothing greater except to appear as witness.
 '" Here is a chance,' I told Henry to duplicate that It is the greatest thing that can be done for the Ameri- l can people,"
 "Go to Wall street and set up shop" was the advice Lawson said he gave Henry" There all of the stock exchange members could be summoned with their books and l clerks and forced to reveal the inside l of transactions"
 Referring again to his conference 1 with Henry mentioning Secretary l Lansing and Bernard Baruch, Law | son declared Henry told him the com- l mittee had the substance of all of l Lansings talks at the Biltmore hotel with the New York broker and the substance of part of another. 1 1T said to Henry, go through 1t | from A to E." Lawson testified, "' and before you are one-third done the lid will be blown off. Congress l will know, the world will know, who l the hypocrites are that are making l millions That was what we talked about in the three hours and quar- 1 ter I was with him.
 Wanted Press Kept or Trail.
 He asked me one thing before we l left the meeting: I ask you to do this,'' he said, throw the newspaper 1 men off the scent. We cannot gain anything by letting them know that we are coming back here at 3 o'clock"
 ''So I met MT. Henry again at 3 l o'clock, Lawson continued. He said to me: Lawson, I'm sorry that l we can't do what you say. I agree with you that it is a great thing and a good thing, and all I regret is that l I am going out of office on the fourth ! of March.
 1T said that there was time enough yet to do something. Then he said that since we had parted in the l morning he had thought it all over and that he had come to the con- clusion that the matter was too seri- ous to be made public now then added: What do you say if we get at it again in thirty days? I said, 1 Not at all. I would be side-tracked by that time and we will never have this opportunity again.
 Tells of Interview.
 State the way in which the names came to be mentioned first, in your interview with MT. Henry" said Rep. Campbell, republican. "I entered the room and the chairman said nice things to me. He brought up a chair and said: Take a comfortable one.' 1 I asked him to have one of my cigars and he asked me to have one of his cigarettes.
 Then he said: Lawson, we've been through these things and now let us be fair with each other.' I said to him that I thought the committee would dispute his right to hold a star chamber session of this matter and that I probably should have to talk to the committee.
 He said: No, it's my duty to do this. There are hundreds of things that come before this committee many of them worthless charges and it is my duty to sift them and to see whether they should be given to the committed
 Very we'll I said, but under stand that we are to think out loud
 We shook hands on 1t and Henry said
 That's it exactly. Whats proper tc
 give to the public or the committee I'll give and what is not we'll hold in confidence.' 1 said that was agreed '
 Now I said don't ask me to give
 names of men who have told me
 things in confidence and we had quite
 a long talk about that and finally he
 said: All right. but some time I am
 going to have these names and there
 won't be any investigation
 Relieved Lansing Honest 'Then MT. Henry said: ITO show
 you where we stand, I'll tell you some
 of the things we've got. We have i,
 that MT Baruch who made large
 contributions to the democratic cam.
 pa1gn fund had four conversation. with Secretary Lansing
 That's going some' I replied Four of 'eem' Yes he answered