The Sentinel=record., 1917-02-15
BROKER AFTER BROKER
 WAS PUT ON THE STAND
Efforts of the Committee to Learn How the Hutton Company Got Their Forecast of the Presidents Note Were 5affIed by the Absence of Members of the Firm

New York, Feb. 14.-There is no way for the congress ional committee Investigating tho leak" on President Wilson's note to the belligerents to iearn the names of officials who may nave dealt in the stock market under other persons names unless the "dum- mes themselves come forward and give the information. the committee was told at it's hearing today. The main purpose of the inquiry here, the { committee has announced, is to get at officials, if there are any, who have been proflting by advance information as to impending acts of the govern ment
 Broker after broker was put on the stand today and asked whether there were any persons in official fife at Washington among their customers and each one said there was none. Late in the session Representative Phillip F. Campbell asked l.. V. Sterl- ing of Logan and Bryan whether the lists of customers would reveal spec ulating officials.
 You might have the name of every cl;tomiT of every broke in the United States and not discover such officials, if they were dealing through a third po-s4y, whose name alone appears as the GUS tomeg~ Mir Storing said.
 The nanh Joseph P. Tumulty. Presider WfSSu1N secretary. again was brought 4nto the inquiry when James B. Began, nd Ssrpr4ssss ns,ls was asked the dirc3 amestion whstSe CT or not during a Wit of Mr. TumnI. ty here December 1f and IS he gave MT. Began any hint as to a prospec- tive peace note.
 Positively not. l wish he had" re- piled MT. Regan, who added that he had no discuss3cn with MT. Humility regarding affairs at Washington. MT. Regan denied the rumor that he sold short heavily in United States Steel during the leak" period.
 The efforts of the committee to sft to the bottom the manner in which E. r. Hutton and Company. brokers get their forecast of the pres ident's note were baffled through the absence of Mir. Hutton and Fl. ]. Bar rett. members of the firm. George A. Ellis, another member, said they were in the south. He testified that he was unable to find the telegrams sent from F. A. Connolly and Com pany, the firms Washington's cores pcndeuts, on which the Hutton was based.
 It was pointed out by Sherman l.. Whipple, counsel for the committCe>>- that the testimony of AIr. Hutton and Mir. Connolly as to that telegrams was at variance and that the conclusion was irresistible that Mr. Hutton knew that Mir Connolly was making a miss statement.'
 The motion was made by a member of tbe committee that MT, Hutton and Barrett be compelled to appear before st but after executive consideration of this proposal MT. Whippse announc- ed such a step would not be taken. FIe added that Mir. Hutton and MT. Barrett were the only persons who could straighten the matter put and that the responsibility rested with them as to whether their house could afford 10 leave tue subject as 1t ts
 Unless they appeared, he said, the committee was free to make what de- duction5 it could from all the circuiil- stances and to report to congress.
 Mir. Ellis said he would attempt to
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