Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-17
DRAGNET SPREAD
OVER NEW YORK'S
FINANCIAL AREA
Morgan, Dawson and Other
Money Kings Summoned
to Give Testimony.
"LEAK" INVESTIGATION
Is ENLARGED IN SCOPE
Extended to Include General In
quiry Into Stock Mar
ket Methods.
WOMAN INFORMER REAPPEARs
Lawson. Again Star Witness, Re-
views and Supplements Sem
sational Statements.
"lEAK" INVESTIGATION
Is ENLARGED IN SCOPE
WOMAN INFoRMER REAppEAR.
Lawson. Again Star Witness, Re-
views and Supplements Sem
satiOnal Statements.
tRy Associated Pressl

Ing a dragnet over the financial district
OF New York. the House Rules Com
mittee to-day extended the peace-not.
leak investigation to a general in
quiry into the stock market At an
executive meeting the committee CON
sdercd tho advisabilty OF employing
expert counsel familiar with financial
affairs to conduct the examination OF.
witnesses. 1t also planned to ask Con-
sress tomorrow for an extension OF
time to report.
A. the first step in cnlarging this
scope OF the hearings. the committee
subpoenaed J. r. Morgan, III. p. Davi
son, T.. y. vanderlip. Arthur Lippcr
Sol G. Wexlcr and ]. S. Bache. New
York financiers.
WOMAN INFORMER
HAD DISAPPEARED
Fying In interest with the summon
ing Of tho financicrs was the disap-
pcarancc of Mrs. Ruth rhomason Viz
cont, who Thomas W. Lawson saw.
told him Secretary TumuIty and
othcrs mad pronted in the stock
market by the leak. and that william
w. Price. one OF the White House
correspondents. had acted as the go
$4,000 for his work. Scrgcant-at- Arms
Gordon and several assistants tried in
vain to find Mrs. Visconti MIR. Law
son expressed great surprise at her
disappearance
Mrs. Visconti surprised the seorchers
Tonight by rcappcaring at the apur.-
nent-housc in which she lives. and
which had been under surveillance
since last night y deputy sergeant
alarms promptly served subpoena.
directing her to appear before the
committee Tomorrow morning. She
promised to be there. and the officer
left her in the apartment
Lawson, whose sensational testimony
yesterday aroused the committees to ..o
to the depths Of the leak rumors. oc-
cupied the witness stand again to-day,
reviewing and supplcmentinE his state-
mcnts. At the outset Lawson attacked
Representative Henry's denial OF his
testimony and emphatically declared
mat he or Henry was guilty of rank
perjury. In n characteristic outburst.
Lawson shouted his reiteration that ha
had told the truth.
When there is a direct difference Of
opinion. stronger than question OF
veracity." said Lawson, 1T is per-
fectly obvious that one or the other
of us is committing pcrjury-delib-
crate, rank perjury. Unless your
chairman said the things that I have
said he did. am guilty OF foul per-
jury, and ] am unfit to be here. or
anywhere outside the bars of Jail"
Lawson again brought the names OF
Secretary Lansing. Count Won Bern
storh and Bernard Earuch into his
testimony as the men Chairman Henry
had told him he had heard leak"
rumors about. and elaborated on his
story 'o'd yesterday regarding Ienry's
alleged statements concerning them
HENRY SAID NOTHING
ABOUT SECRETARY McADoo
In that connection. in answer TO in.
quiries by Representative Garrett ap
10 what Henry told him about "a Cab
met member. member of Congress
and banker" Lawson said he never
had asserted that Henry had told him
anything about Secretary McAdoo. the
MYSTERIOUS senator 90" and III. Pliny
Fisk. The Cabinet member Henry
spoke Of. Lawson said. was Mr. Lam
sing, and the banker AIR. Baruch The
fact that Earuch is a "sprculator and
investor and not a banker. had led
t" misunderstanding in the commit
tee regarding Lawsou's previous tcsti-
m"ny. Information. MIR. Lawson said
which he received in regard To McAdoo,
FISK and Senator o. came from
another source, which he did not ro-
veal
The Boston iinancier insisted on re-
citing 10 tho committee in great de-
tail the disputed confidential confer
cncc with Chairman Henry. With re-
gard 10 his testimony Yesterday. bring
inS in the names of Secretary Lansing
and Earuch, Lawson said that he had
forgotten to add that Henry had told
him the committee had recciyr.. infor-
nation concerning tho substance OF all
of one OF Secretary Lausing's alleged
conversations with Baruch in New
York and part OF another
Lawson was questioned closely con-
rcrninS the letter he received from
Mrs Nisconti. the missing witness. and
his conference with her at a local hotel
When Representative Pou asked him
II he had not previously acquitted Sec
rotary Tumulty OF any connection with g
the leak. Lawson said he never had Nr.
Tumulty in mind respecting II until lie
met Mrs. Nisconti. Even then. Law
son said, he told the woman her efforts
seemed 10 him 10 be actuatod by AN
lltcrior motive. She assisted he said. =
in the presence OF her attorney. that q
She had no such motive. but wanted
10 disclose information she thought S
Congress and the public should have
As proof OF her purely pntriotie q
motives. Lawson said. tho woman ~
turned to her attorney and declared @