New Britain herald., 1917-01-08

W Morse and others were associated. T do not" said MT. Tumulty. The committee at that point decided to supoena Alfred H. Curtis. 'You are we'll acquainted with Der nard Baruch?' resumed MT. Chiper- field
 "Yes sir''
 When did you last see him "At the Gridiron dinner in Wash ington, Dec. 9" with him there? him and exchanged greetings with | him."
 Did you have any conversation with him?''
 "None at all" Full Investigation Invited. MT. Chiperfield then said there were 1 things not mentioned in MT. Tumultys s letter about which he wished to ques- l tion him.
 "Go as far as you like" said MT 1 Tumulty.
 Do you know J. B. Reagan, pro- prietor of the Knickerbocker hotel in l New York ''
 1T do not"
 Asked if he ever had any business l transactions with w. B. Hibbs & ] company, Washington brokers, or had ever frequented their place of busi- ness, MT Tumulty said he had been l there once.
 Before MT. Gerard returned to Germany recently" said Tumulty The wanted to buy some bonds and wanted 1 to know a man whom I could recom- 1 mend. I introduced MT. Gerard to l MT. Hibbs. ...- When was that, in reference to when the peace note was sent?" "Some time before ' In answer to further questioning by 1 Representative Chiperfield MT. Tu- 1 multy said that he did not know the date of the peace note nor when it was transmitted to Secretary Lansing ] and then was excused. l Secretary Lansing on Stand. l Secretary Lansing was called next. l Possibly I had better start" said l Secretary Lansing, "by stating that assume that confidential communica-
 tions between the president and my
 self are not part of the inquiry. I
 can give you physical history of | the note. The draft of the note was
 received by me from the White House
 st 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. T called MT. Polk, counsellor for ] the department, and MT. Woolsey, law
 adviser attached to my office, and dis 1 cussed the three forms in which the note had to be prepared and sent forth. I then handed it to MT. Wool~
 sey, enjoining him to the strictest
 secrecy, so that he might take 1t to the three confidential stenographers. There it was to be prepared and de- livered to MT. Salmon, chief of the in- dex bureau.
 "The index clerk,' continued the
 secretary" was to encipher the note,
 and said that it would take so long
 to cipher the three notes that he
 would have to have an assistant. I
 directed that he engage his most con- idential man for the work. He did so, was given the copies and the two men locked themselves in the room.
 They were given the copies at s
 o'clock, and at 2:3O Tuesday morning
 December 19) the notes were enci-
 phered, delivered to the telegraph
 room and sent.
 l oH IueSuAy dlCefHoOu QlSCuSSeO
 with the president the time when the
 note should be made public. The
 reason for secrecy was the courtesy
 due to the nations who were to re-
 ceive the note that it might not be
 published here before they received
 it. We decided it would tak ke at least
 two days for it to reach Austria and
 Rumania and we decided it should be
 made public on Thursday morning
 Tuesday evening, about 6 o'clock, a
 copy of the note was handed to MT
 James, chief of the information bu-