Mohave County miner., 1917-01-20

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Spread- ing a dragnet over the financial dis trict of New York the house rules committee today extended the peace note leak investigation to a general inquiry into the stock market. At an executive meeting the committee con- sidered the advisability of employing expert counsel familiar with financial affairs to conduct the examination of witnesses. It is also planned to ask congress tomorrow for an extension of time to report.
 As the first step is enlarging the scope of the hearings the committee subpoenaed J. P. Morgan, H. P. Davison, F. A. Vanderlip, Arthur Lipper, Sol c. Wexler and J. S. Bache, New York financiers.
 Vying in interest with the summon ing of the fnanciers was the disap- pearance of Mrs. Ruth Thomson Visconti, who Thomas W. Lawson says told him Secretary Humility land others" had profted in the stock market by the leak and that William w. Price, one of the White House correspondents, had acted as the Ego between" in the affair and received S5,000 for his work. Sergeant-At- Arms Gordon and several assistants tried in vain to find Mrs. Visconti. MT. Lawson expressed great surprise over her disappearance.
 Lawson, whose sensational testi- mony yesterday, aroused the commit tee to go to the depths of the leak rumors, occupied the witness stand again today reviewing and supple menting his statement.
 At the outset Lawson attacked Representative Henry's denial of his testimony and emphatically declared that he or Henry was guilty of rank perjury. In a characteristic outburst Lawson shouted his reiteration that he had told the truth.
 "When there is a direct difference of opinion--stronger than a question of veracity," said Lawson, "it is per fectly obvious that one or the other of us is committing perjury, deliber- ate, rank, perjury. Unless your chair man said the things that have said he did, am guilty of foul perjury and I am unfit to be here or any where outside the bars of a jail"
 Lawson again brought the names of Secretary Lansing, Count von Bernstorf and Bernard Baruch into his testimony as the men Chairman Henry had told him he had heard Teak" rumors about, and elaborated on his story told yesterday regarding Henry's alleged statements concern ing them.
 In that connection, in answer to in quiries by Representative Garrett as to what Henry told him about "a cabinet member, a member of con- gress, and banker" Lawson said he never had asserted that Henry had told him anything about Secretary McAdoo, the mysterious senator O"
 and H. Pliny Fisk. The cabinet member Henry spoke of, Lawson said, was MT. Lansing and the banker Mir. Baruch. The fact that Baruch is a "speculator and investor" and not banker had led to misunderstanding in the committee regarding Lawson's previous testimony. Information Mir. Lawson said he received in regard to McAdoo, Fisk, and Senator O." came from another source which he did not reveal.
 The Boston inancier insisted on re- citing in detail the disputed confden- tial conference with Chairman Henry. For more than an hour he recounted what he had said to Henry and what he alleged Henry had said to him.
 With regard to his testimony yes terday bringing in the names of Sec retary Lansing and Baruch, Lawson