The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-23
LAWSON EXPLODES
BOMB At THE INQUIRY
CHAIRMAN HENRY, SECRETARY
McADoo, TUMULTY, BERN
STOFF NAMED IN NOTE LEAK
INVESTIGATION.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Thomas
w. Lawson, before the house rules
committee to tell what he knew or
had heard about 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, a senator
and banker. were engaged in a stock
gambling pool, was none other than
Representative Henry of Texas.
chairman of the committee.
Then, before his hearers had time
to recover from their shock, Lawson
sprang one sensation after the other
by declaring that the cabinet officer
referred to was Secretary McAdoo:
That the banker was H. Pliny Fiske of
New York, and that he knew the
senator only by the initial "O."
10 complete the explosion Lawson
went on to charge that Paul M. War
burg OF the federal reserve board had
knowledge of the leak machinery: re-
peated a rumor that Count Won Bern
storff, the German ambassador, had
made two millions in the stock mar
ket, and mentioned list of we'll
known men whom he thought should
be questioned. The committee
promptly issued subpoenas for all of
them.
Mr.. Lawson said he had been told
that Malcolm McAdoo, the secreta-
rvs brother, knew of the leak, as
did G. D. Barney & Co. and Stewart
q. Gibboney of New York. A Mrs.
Ruth Thomson Visconti of this city.
he said, had declared to him in the
presence of her attorney that Score
tary Tumulty received his bit" and
W. W. Price, one of the white house
correspondents, was the "go-between
for Tumulty and Others"
II. Pliny Fiske, Lawson said, was
the banker he referred to previously
as dominating a cabinet officer and
Archibald S. White, he said, had
given him this information.
Representative Henry was said bv
Lawson to have told him at the con-
ferences which preceded the opening
of the leak investigation of reports
connecting the cabinet officer, banker
and senator and also had told him of
reports that Secretary Lansing had
been seen comforting with Bernard
Baruch, the Wall street operator who
is said to have made a clean up on
the falling market which accompan-
led the peace note.
Lawson said Henry had asked him
on patriotic grounds not to press his
charges. At no time, the Boston
tinancier testified, did he ever say
he had direct information.
Denied by Henry.
When Lawson had finished his re-
c1tal, Chairman Henry took the stand
and swore that at no time had he
mentioned to Lawson the names the
financier brought out on the witness
stand, that he had no information
then and had none now of his own
knowledge and denied generally and
completely all of Lawsons testimony
relating to him.
When he had concluded Lawson
rose and solemnly declared that ev-
cry word he had uttered on the stand
was the truth, so help me God, with
out variation"
To back it up, Lawson said that
Immediately after leaving Henry at
their first conference he laid his in
formation before John O'Hara Cos
grave, Sunday editor of the New
York World; Erman ]. Ridgway,
president of Everybody's Magazine.
and Donald Mcdonald, publisher of
a Boston financial paper.
Call these men," he demanded,
land they will bear me out in what I
say"
"I'll make good here, and l won't
go to Jail as the goat"
Secretaries McAdoo and Tumulty
and Mr.. Price at once issued state
ments denying Lawson's references
to them.