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mote peace prospects" This message
 contained no details.
 Certain members of the committee,
 however. privately expressed conyic- tion that the person who originally
 supplied the information on which Connely's missing message was based, either had read the presidents note
 or obtained an excellent resume of it.
 some one read the note,' Rep- resentative Campbell, of Kansas.
 ranking republican member of the committee, emphaticaliy declared aft
 CT the close of the hearing. Chairman
 Henry and sherman L. Whipple,
 counsel for the committed declined
 to express any views on the situation.
 No effort will be spared, MT. Whip
 pie announced to throw the fullest
 light on the origin and transmission
 of the Connolly information. both if
 the message from Washington. E. F.
 Hutton & Go. and the subsequent
 message sent by them to their cor
 respondents. The latter message, ac- cording to Hutton, was prepared by George E. Ellis, Jr, a member of the finn who is now ill in Georgia. he said. Hutton also requested the com
 mittee not to call Ellis if it can be avoided.
 Chairman Henry, determined to
 have Ellis testify. said he probably would be examined next week in Washington. Telegraph operators and l others who had to do with the trans | mission of the message also are to be interrogated. Other members of 1 the Connolly firm also probably will be called Mir. Boiling already has testified at a Washington hearing that | he had nothing to do with q leak" of any kind.
 MT. Bollings connection with the 1 Connelly firm was the subject of much interrogation by MT Whipple | during his examination of Mr Hutton, l when the broker first took the stand Hutton told of Connolly calling on him five or six months ago, informing l him that the firm of F. COnnellr &, 1 Go. was to be organized, with Boiling as one of the partners, and asking il l the Hutton firm would become it's | New York correspondent.
 Hutton said the fact that Boiling 1 was to be q member of the firm had made no impression upon him. He | denied that Connolly had said any l thing of an expectation of getting 1 high class customers" through Boil | ;nG's relationship to the president. | The Connolly account. he said. how ever. had heen very attractive Whipple then had Hutton produce
 messages which had gone over the firms private wires during the peace period" in the stock market and which 1 he had been commanded to bring un- l der subpoena. The first to be read was the Clement, Curtis & Co tele- gram, marked "confdential.7 time 12:4S o'clock eastern time. which was I about an hour and 2 quarter after 1 Secretary Lansing had told the news | paper men in Washington that 8
 note was coming from the president.
 ''I hear that state department will
 issue statement today regarding eco- homie conditions European war as ] affecting neutrals." the Clement mes
 sage said. Intended to promote peace prospects. What do you think of this 1 and how are you on stockS?'
 The next was Hutton's reply to this timed 1.14 D. m., which read:
 Our Washington wire gave us similar message to yours. Others have the same information. We put
 it out as it was more or less generally 1 known. Your message was marked confidential and we treated it so.'
 Some time between the receipt of i the Chicago message and Hutton s
 reply to it. the now missing message l from Connellv was received. Hutton l testified. This was the message or which Ellis based his message at i 54 | o'clock, which follows:
 I We are confidentially informed a l highly important message to all bellig- 1 erents and neutrals has been issued
 from Washington. Interpreted not as pressure on belligerents in behalf l of peace. but as one apparently tC put American demands on record to be considered if there is peace and warning neutral rights must not be | further encroached upon. Full text to be given out tonight and will h.
 looked on as a move of great moment Hutton also produced other con-
 mUnications his firm had sent it's
 correspondents in which reference