The Alaska citizen., 1917-01-22
l LAWSON MAKES SENSATIONAL.
 DISCLOSURES
Associated Press)

t44AApAo 1tA lto OA SfllSttllOllN III lll~ testimony today before the rules com mittee of the house of representa- uyes, which is Investigating the al leged leak Of President Wilson's peace note to Wall street several days prior to the time that the note was dispatched to the belligerent nations of Europe. In doing so he named numerous high officials of the United States government, shout ing from the witness stand as he made the alleged disclosures. "In make good here I will not go to jail as the goat" It is supposed that that statement had reference 10 the threat made by congress, hat if he did not disclose the names of those whom he alleged were in ,erested in the leak, he would be prosecuted for contempt.
 Tn first sensation of the day came when Lawson said that Chairman Henry. of the house rules committee, which is Investigating the alleged leak, was the congressman who told him that a cabinet officer, senator and prominent banker were the members of a gambling pool on Wall street which made big money out of the alleged leak of the Presi- dents note He then said that the cabinet officer was Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, the Presidents son-in-law; that the bank CT was H. Pliny Fisk, of New York, and that he knew the senator who was interested in the pool only by the initial O." He also made charg es relative to Paul Warberg. of the ,ederal reserve board.
 It was through Malcolm McAdoo, brother of the secretary of the trea- 5ury, that Chairman Henry learned of the leak, according to Lawson. He testified that McAdoo had said that his brother, c. D. Barney & Co.,, and Stewart Gibboney, of New York, all knew of the leak. He also teSti- lied that during his private investi- gation of the reports, he had learned through Mrs. Ruth Viscount, of Wash ington, that through the persistence of her attorney, Joseph Tumulty, secretary of President Wilson, re ceived his bit, and that w. Price, a newspaper correspondent, was the gC-between for Tumulty and others.
 Lawson repeated on the stand, the rumor that Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to the United States, made two million dollars on stocks, out of the leak. He said that Chairman Henry told him that Secretary Lansing had been seen con- terring with Bernard Baruch, the New York broker, whom, it was re ported, cleaned up a big bunch Of money on the advance information furnished him on the peace note.
 Lawson also declared that Chair
 man Henry had urged him not to press the investigation for patriotic motives. Henry, concluded Lawson, 5olemnly declared with tears in his eyes that every word he uttered was the truth, "so help me God" He said also that when Henry told him these things he had, without varia- Uion, laid the information he had SC | cured before John Cosgrove, one of the editors of the New York World; Erman Ridgeway, president of the Ridgeway Publishing Co.,; the pub fishers of Everybody's magazine, and Donald Mcdonald, the editor of Boston financial paper.
 Secretary McAdoo, Secretary Tu multy and Price, the three men nam ed by Lawson as having been i'm plicated in the leak, have all issued statements denying the truth of Law sons testimony. McAdoo and Tu- multy have both signified their will ingness to appear before the com mittee. Subpoenas have been issued for the others mentioned by Lawson in his testimony today. and the hear ing will be continued tomorrow.
 Throughout the testimony of Law son today Chairman Henry said noth- ing to indicate that he knows any thing regarding what Lawson is ap- parently disclosing. It is understood, however, that he has indicated his willingness to forsake the chair for the witness stand when the proper time comes.
 Ex-SENATOR DIES.