Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-09
IT'S A GOOD BET
THFYWON' TF|NDOUT
COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS TRY
ING TO LOCATE WHO GAVE
OUT ADVANCE NEWS.
BIG PROFITS MADE IN STOCKS
President Wilson's Peace Note to the
Warning Countries Was Known
on Wall Street Many Hours
Before 1t Was Dispatched.

Congressional investi-
cation of allegations of a leak of
advance information to Wall street
on President Wilson's peace note has
taken a broader range and the in
vestigators expect to lay a more def
mite foundation for their work this
week, when a score of men mention
ed in connection with the inquiry ap-
pear before the house rules commit
tee.
Call Newspaper Men.
Secretary Lansing. whose depart
ment has been drawn indirectly into
the investigation by suggestions it
might have been the source of a
leak" regarding dispatch of the note,
and Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
the president, whose name was men
toned by Representative Wood, in
stigator of the inquiry, has notified
the rules committee they wished to
appear and make statements on the
subject. Subpoenas were issued for
seven newspaper men representing
in Washington the Wall Street Jour
nal, Financial America, Central News
of America and the New York Eve
ming Sun and they were ordered to
bring their records with them.
Also under subpoena to appear are
Thomas w. Lawson, the Boston finan-
cier; Bernard Baruch of New York,
Chas H. Sabin, president of the
Guaranty Trust company, and man
ayers of the two telegraph compa-
MES, who will be asked about mes
sages passing over their wires on the
day the peace note was given in con-
fidence to newspaper correspondents
The Question.
The question that concerns the ma
ton, as Representative Chiperfield
said before the house investigating
committee, lis whether there was a
leak and whether government Off
Gals improperly profited by it."
All this side-sparring, all this ora
abuse, and attempt to beat up dust
by assailing Tom Lawson and other
notoriety seekers, is apart from the
mark and san have no other efefct
on public opinion than to deepen sus
picion.
That there was a news leak OF
President Wilson's peace note; thai
Wall street was tipped off before the
fact went to the general public, is
strongly indicated by the course o.
stock exchange trading and the pub
LEGATION of advance information il
certain New York newspapers. As
Congressman Gardner points out t
the committee, the fact is significan
that 10 hours before the president
peace note was released for publica
ton and four hours before it haC
been placed in the hands of the news
associations, this dispatch was sen
out over the ticker of a Wall stree
agency:
"The renewed selling of the marke
is due to reports received by brokers
private wires from Washington to thu
effect that the administration will
in the near future, address to thu
belligerents some suggestions or pro
posals in regard to peace"
"There is your proof of a leak" de
clares Mr.. Gardner.
1t is apparent that there was a leal
somewhere, and it is highly desir
able that the guilty person or persons
shall be exposed and properly pun
ished-by summary discharge if il
the government service, by exposur,
and public condemnation if in privat
life.