Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-18
LAWSON NAMES
H|GH-UPS IN LEAK"
CONGRESS AGAIN HAS HEARING
AS TO WHO GAVE OUT
PEACE, NEWS.
NC AD00 AND TUMULTY IN
Lawson Declares Chairman Henry Of
Rules Committee Told Him Ru-
mors About Leak-Everybody
Calls Everybody Liar.

Washington. W. Lawson
sprang a sensation in the 'leak' in
quiry Monday when he testified that
Chairman Henry of the rules COM
.mittee conducting the inquiry was the
congressman who told him that a
cabinet officer, a member Of congress
and a banker were said to have
profited in the stock market by ad-
vance information on President Will
sons peace note.
Lawson said that the banker who
told him he knew another banker
who dominated a cabinet officer in
Washington was Archibald S. White
of White & Co., Boston. The commit
tee Immediately issued subpoena
for White.
Lawson said he could not give the
names of any members of congress
who were engaged in buying and
selling stocks.
He also, testified that Ruth Tomlin-
son Visconti of Washington had told
him that w. w. Price, correspondent
of the Washington Star at the White
House, had a part in the leak affair
between Secretary Tumulty and 9TH
erS.
Secretary McAdoo, Lawson said, was
the cabinet member to whom he re-
ferred in his previous testimony as
being connected, according to rumor,
with a leak" on President Wilson's
peace note.
Another banker to whom Lawson
referred as having been involved in
the leak was H. Pliny Fiske of
Harvey Fiske & Sons, New York
The senator, Lawson said, was
known to him only as CO."
Offers Letter From Woman.
Lawson had been asked if he was
prepared to offer proof of his state
ment that there were beneficiaries
of the "leak" among lwmakers and
others. He produced a letter which
he asked to submit in private. The
committee insisted that he read it.
1t was from Mrs. Visconti.
Asked by Representative Henry,
whom he meant when he said he
would give the name of a go-between
who received large sum for "his
Bit" Lawson said he referred to the
name given him by Mrs. Visconti as
Secretary Tumulty."
Lawson also declared that the firm
of c. D. Barney & Co., of Wall street,
Malcolm McAdoo, brother of Secre-
tary McAdoo, and Stewart G. Giboney
of New York knew of the leak, and
that public man who knew the
leak machinery was Paul M. War
burg of the federal reserve board.
Lawson indirectly brought the name
of Secretary Lansing and of Ambas-
sador Bernstorff < into the hearing,
but Mot in connection with the leak.
When Henry charged him with
dragging in the name of Lansing,
Ladson Indignantly replied:
Il have held the names of Lansing
and the German ambassador out of
this
Lawson also said Henry told him
of rumors that Barney Baruch was
connected with the leak"
Call Each Other Liars.
Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes
quite rehabilitated, behond the new
Ananias club. When Chairman Henry
of the rules committee and Thomas
w. Lawson elected each other to
membership at the leak hearing the
new roll of members was established.
1t is to grow amazingly during the re-
mainder of the rules committees in
vestigation, for most Of the witnesses
to take the stand will be there to
call some one else liar. Alibis and
denials are in the making.