The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-16
Issues Singing Denial Declas-
ing He Had Never Been Con-
nected With Stock Purchase
LAWSON SAYS HENRY Is
INfORMATION'S SOURCE
Tells He Wa. Told That Tu-
multy Leaked the Note
Through Evening Star Re-
porter-Prompt Denial Mads

washington, Jan. 15.-PflfHG
one sensation on top OF another
in quick succession, Thomas w.
Lawson before the House Rules
Committee today opened Tire
flood gates and disclosed tho l0sag.
sought names OF the high govern
mcnt officials for which tho com
mittee has been vatnly seeking
for in the leak" probe for weeks,
The first shock came when
Lawson, In response 10 q Pre-.
pared question by Chairman Hen-
ry. declared that the man vino
gave him much OF the tnforma-
tion regarding the alleged 'I0nk~
was none other than Henry him.
self.
LAWSON SAYS McADOO WAS
PEACE LEAK BENEFICIARY
The shock of this discsosemeut
had barely passed when Lawson
declared that he had been tOld
by Henry that william Gibbs Mo
Adoo, Secretary Of the Treasury
and sOn-in law OF President WI
son, was the Cabinet oflcer men-
toned in the earlier charges.
Paul WarbsiEy. member Of the
Federal Reserve Board, was next
named by Lawson, and the names
OF bankers, editors and others H
The setting of the disclosures waa
doubfy dramatic. as a warrant charg-
ing contempt had been sworn out Ii
advance for LAwson's arrest should
he fail to answer specifically any Of
the questions put to him. With this
hanging over his head to force him
to speak plainly and to the point,
Thomas W. Lawson barred every fact
and every shred of hearsay evidences
~ frc irf H.
Washington to Wall Street that has
como to his attenti III.
SAYS WOMAN TOLD HIM
TUMULTY GAVE OUT NEWS
Quoting a Washington woman A.
cession of sensations by stating that
she had told him that Joseph p. Tu-
multy. secretary to. the President,
working through W. w. Price, re-
porter on local paper as ''go-b0-
tween" conveyed advance secret in-
formation regarding the administers
TONS moves to Wall Street For this
Price received $4,000. and Tumultx
much more than that" 81
Mr. Lawson safd that the reports
that had reached him were to thu
effect that Secretary McAdoo. Pliny
Fiske. a New York banker. ana =
United States Senator whose name be-
gan with the letter ''O' had a Joint
stock speculative account.
Rushing headlong with his dis
closures. Mr.. lawson oaid he had
been told that the firm Of c. d. Bar
ney & Co, OF New York. had d<af-s
ings with Mr. McAdoo through Mall
colin McAdoo. brother of the cabinet
member. and Stuart G.. Gibboney, Of
Brooklyn, Secretary McAdoo's close
friend and business associate. through
which the barney firm was put In
possession OF advance information
which gave it great advantages.
DECLARES HENRY WAS
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
He declared that Chairman Henry
was his informant with regard to the
rumors current in Washington i,nme-s
diately after the wild Hurry in Wall
Street. which followed the publica-s
ton of the Presidents peace note, to
the effect tina, high officials OF the
government had profited in the plum
dering of the public.
Lawson took violent issue with
Chairman Henry's denial OF this
charge. He told the Rules Cotnmit-
tee that now that the investigation
had started. ii would not be forty
off, and the real inside of the per-
fidv of officials and others would b0
public property.
The hearing was by long odds the
most sensational ever staged in cons
gresslonal investigation. IT tram
seconded in public interest even the
brilliant testimony OF the late J. Pier.
pont Morgan before the money trust
probers four years ago. II drew o.
crowd which damned the big caucus
room OF the House office building ~
1t has never been crowded hefore. IL,
resulted in the issuance of Mood az
subpoenas directing the attendance
forthwith of nearly dozen prD1nte
nent witnesses, in addition TO those
already under subpoena and hadl
Washington by the ear for hours after
the chairman's gave. had raped 49,
journment. sssS
Following the concluding Of LMNS
sons sensational testimony Secretar9k
to the President Tumulty issued tA4E
following brief denial:
TCMUITY
MAKES PROMPT DEMKA1N
after the cbmpiete and de11~1
statement which ] made TO the 9MN
Committee last week. Il should ~
be necessary for me to sAy thak
IL not a scintilla Of truth In theee 4
nimsy charge Mr.. i.