The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-09
Climax Has Been Reached on
Question in United States
Supreme Court.
ARGUMENTS HAVE STARTED
The Famous Question is
Based On Case of Missouri,
Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad
Company.

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a denial
that he gave anyone advance infor-
nation regarding the Presidents
peace note, or that he had discussed
the peace or any other note with
anyone engaged in stock market
dealings, was made by the Presi-
dents secretary Joseph p. Tumulty,
in statement at the leak" hear
ing today. He declared that he did
not know the note existed or was
contemplated until after it was
given to the press. His statement
was endorsed by the President
Secretary Tumulty declared that
h" never had taken any meals with
Bernard Baruch. The "a. Lurtis"
letter to Representative Wool said
lie had been told that Secretary Tu-
multy lunched with Baruch in New
York just before the note was sent.
Secretary Tumulty said that n,
one in the executive offices knew Of
the conference between the Presi-
dent and Secretary Lansing. He said
he had attempted unsuccessfully to
ascertain how a leak could have oc-
Cured.
Secretary Tumulty said the Presi-
dent prepared and wrote the peace
note himself. He did not know
whether any stenographer or clerk
in the executive offices knew of the
note.
hn nP ,t,
the note might make It possible for
it to get out" he said
Secretary Tumulty said his first
knowledge that "a note" had been
given out came from the Associated
Press correspondent at the White
House on the afternoon of Decem-
ber 20. He said that any opinion he
might have about how leak occur
red would be speculative and would
involve regulations" He added that
he did not think leak" could have
occurred through any executive Of
flee employee.
Secretary Tumulty then read a
letter from l.. T. Russell, editor of
the Newark Morning Ledger. re-
ferring to the mysterious "A. Cur
tis." Editor Russell wrote that un-
der varying suspicious circum-
stances since ] have been In Newark
have received telephone calls from
New York from a man calling him
self Mr. Curtis and alleging him
self to be banker or broker. Each
time he undertook to give me tips
of various sources of what was hap
pening in the financial and industrial
world, but on one occasion he called
me by telephone to tell me he had
good reason to believe that Dorothy
Arnold was at an Orange IN. J)
hotel"
. Secretary Tumulty said he was
acquainted with Bernard Baruch and
ners and banouets, the last time at
the Gridiron dinner, December 9.
Secretary Lansing was the next
witness
Secretary Lansing told the commit
tee that A. f. Snowden, Of New
York, f. Caylor. navy civil engi-
neer and DR.. II. r. Mclean. Of the
navy were present without his knowl-
edge when he told newspaper men of
the note. Thev were waiting to see
him. He said he told the newspaper
men the note was not peace pro-
posal or offer of mediation.
Thomas w. Lawson declared he in
tended testifying regarding dam
nable condition which has existed
for two years and which has caused
hundreds Of thousands OF persons to
he driven to enormous losses" Ht
threw the hearing into an uproar
when he became enraged at an in
corruption bv Representative Chiper-
field He declared he proposed to say
all he had to say. regardless OF con
sequences. He declared there had
been manv leaks which affected the
stock market. He asserted the Amer
lean people had been robbed of thirty
to forty billions within two years. He
said those responsible for the leak
had been trying to make him the
goat.