The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-01-16
AND NAMES McADOO, HENRY,
WARBURG, TUMULTY AND Won
BERNSTORFF AS INVOLVED
IN PEACE NOTE LEAK
Sensation Follows Sensation as BOs.
ton Financier, Forced to Talk,
Makes Startling Charges,
Thickening Alleged Plot TO
Manipulate Stock
Market Quota.
tiOns.

Washington, January 15-Thomas
w. Lawson, hailed before the House
Rules Committee to tell what he knew
or had heard about a stock market
leak on President Wilson's peace note,
or be punished, calmly declared today
that the mysterious Congressman who
told him a Cabinet officer, Senator
and banker were engaged in stock
gambling pool was none other than
Representative Henry, chairman of
the committee. Then, before his hear
ers had time to recover from the
shock, Lawson sprung one sensation
after the other by declaring that the
Cabinet officer referred to was Secre-
tary McAdoo; that the banker was II
Pliny Fisk, of New York, and that he
knew the Senator only by the initial
o."
To complete the explosion, Lawson
went on to charge that Paul NJ. War
burg, of the Federal Reserve Board,
had knowledge of the leak machinery;
repeated a rumor that Count Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador
had made $2,OOO,OOO in the stock mar
ket and to mention list of we'll
known men whom he thought should
be questioned. The committee
promptly issued subpoenas for all OF
them.
Tumulty Is Brought In
Mr.. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo, the secretarys
brother, knew of the leak, as did c. D,
Barney & Company and Stewart G..
Gibboney, of New York A Mrs. Ruth
Thomason Visconti, Of this city, he
said, had declared to him In the pres
ence Of her attorney, that Secretary
Tumulty "received his bit," and that
Nv. W. Price, one of the White House
correspondents, was the "go-between
for Tumulty and others" Fl. Pliny
Fisk, Lawson said, was the banker he
referred to previously as dominating
a Cabinet officer, and Archibald S
White, he said had given him this in
formation.
Representative Henry was said by
Lawson to have told him, at the con-
ferences that preceded the opening Of
the leak investigation, or reports con-
Meeting the Cabinet officer, banker and
Senator, and also had told him of re-
ports that Secretary Lansing had been
seen comforting with Bernard Baruch,
the Wall Street operator, said to have
made cleanup on the falling market
which accompanied the peace note
Henry Appeals to Patriotism
Lawson declared, Henry had asked
him on patriotic grounds not to press
his charge. At no time, the Boston
Gnancier testified, did he ever say he
had directed information.
When Lawson had finished his re.
/ cital, Chairman Henry took the stant
and swore that at no time had he
mentioned to Lawson the names tht
iinancier brought out on the witness
stand; that he had no information
then and had none now of his owl
knowledge, and denied generally ant
completely all of Lawson's testimon.
relating to him.
When he had concluded, Lawson
rose and solemnly declared that ever,
word he hal uttered on the stand wa
the truth, SO help me God withou
variation"
To back It UP. Lawson said that i'm
; mediately after leaving Henry at thei
first conference he laid his informa
tion before John O'Hara Cosgrav,
! Sunday editor Of the New York World
, Frman ], Ridgway, president Of r,
erybody's Magazine, and Donald Nj
Donald, publisher of Boston finar
cial paper