The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-18
N ADOO AND HENRY NAMED BY LAWSON
Brought Before House Rules Com mittee, Boston Financier Impli- cates Many Prominent Men in
 Ieak"-Denials Came Fast.

TO Washington, Jan. i6.-Thomas w. i; Lawson, brought before the House na Rules Committee to tell what he l. knew or had heard about a stock
 market leak on President Wilson's ~ peace note or to be punished, calm ,,r ly said yesterday that the mysteri- sous congressman who told him a lis cabinet officer, senator and al nd banker were engaged in a stock y gambling pool was Representative el Henry, chairman of the committee. ,ld Before his hearers had time to re- V cover from the shock, Lawson sad
 that the cabinet officer is Secretary F. MeAdoo; that the banker is H. Pli-. Ol ney Fisk of New York and that he s- knows the senator only by the Ini- y tiaI 70"
 l Lawson charged that Paul Nj. nd Warburg of the Federal Reserve
 board knew of the leak machinery, ne repeated a rumor that Count von cd BernstOrff, the German ambassador, at had made S2,O00,000 in the stock ic market and mentioned list of we'll en known men whom he thought
 should be questioned. The com
 mittee issued subpoenaes for all of IL them.
 Gives Some More Names. au Mir. Lawson said he had been told on that Malcolm McAdoo, the secre- m tary's brother knew of the leak, as n g. o.t
 G. Gibboney of New York. A Mrs. isl Ruth Thompson Visconti, of this is' city, he said, had told him, in the 2 presence of her attorney, that Sec
 aretary Tumulty received his bit nda and That W. W. Price, one of the y White House correspondents. was ndthe go-between for Humility and
 others
 z- Il. Pliney Fisk, Lawson said was 1wthe banker to whom he had referred ls IS Nominating a cabinet officer and all Asshihald S White, lie said, had ne siven him this information.
 Lawson said that Representative
 AHenry told him at the conference, " hat preceded the opening of the It. eak investigation, of reports con- es lecting the cabinet officer banker
 md Senator and also had told him of - eports that Secretary Lansing had ee 'een seen comforting with Bernard nd 3aruch, the Wall NStreet operator. ,r- aid to have made a clean-up on the ,t- ailing market which accompanied uit he peace note.
 No Direct Information.
 
 Lawson said Henry had asked him he,n Patriotic grounds not to press ay lis charges. At no time, Lawson IT. estifled, did he ever say he had di- Y ect information.
 When Lawson had finished. Chair
 = nan Henry took the stand and swore
 hat at no time had he mentioned to sawsOn the names the financier 't yrought out; that he had no infor- m nation then and had none now le H his own knowledge; and denied s. lll Lawson's testimony relating to in linn.
 ln When he had concluded, Lawson of rose and solemnly said that every
 word he had uttered on the stand II was the truth, so help me God, q Nithout variation
 ~ Then Lawson said that immedi- rt ately after leaving Henry at their
 former conference he laid his m ,y formaton before John O'Hara Cos d grave. Sunday editor of the New ig York World; Erman J. Ridgeway, | | president of Everybody's Magazine, q and Donald Mcdonald, publisher of | ld ! Boston financial paper os Ends Contempt Issue. ,a U Ioday's proceedings ended the Y preparations for holding Lawson in z contennpt of the house for his de- II hanee of the committee at the pre- V Sious meeting.