The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-01-19
MORGAN SOUGHT
IN LEAK" QUIZ
SuInmOnSeS Are Issued for Lead.
ing FinanCiers.

ing FinanCiers.
WOMAN ACCUSER is MISSING
Eternal Feminine Angle in Probe Re-
mains UnexpIored-Mrs. Viscont is
Eagerly Sought-Bernstorff Can't
Believe He Made $4,000, o0o-DipIo-
matte Circles Stirred Over Widening
Scope.
Mrs. Visconti was found by sub
poena server just before midnight and
was handed a summons.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-During his
testimony at the afternoon session
Lawson recounted a conversation with
Mrs Visconti, in which he attributed
to her the statement that Secretary
Tumulty Cursed me OUT when she in
timated she intended to tell what she
knew.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Thomas w.
Lawson will be an inmate of an asy-
lum within two years." according TO
Paul NJ. Warburg whom Thomas w.
Lawson mentioned at the house leak"
probe. 81 am profoundly convinced Of
this mans insanity" Warburg said
just before he was to take the stand.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The eternal
feminine and the lords of high finance
are now the central figures in the sen
sational leak investigation which has
swept the heights of Washington of
fetal life, and of financial America. A
search for 'the woman" Mrs. Ruth
ThOmassOn Visconti, who has myster
iously disappeared, and demand for
the testimony of J. P. Morgan and
other powers of the financial world
were the days big developments in the
leak probe. The scope of the inves
tigatiOn has widened to a point where
it becomes apparent that the depths
of Wall street financial operations and
the innermost precincts of the govern
ment service, high and low, are to be
prObed. The inquiry has assumed pro-
portions that promise a great and
more sensational investigation than
has been conducted by congress since
the famous money trust inquiry.
Search for Mrs. Visconti.
A flying squadron of house SER
geants at arms has combed Washing
ton and nearby cities for the mysteri-
Gus Ruth Thomasson Visconti, who,
according to Thomas w. Lawson out
lined to him the details of the White
House to Wall street leak" She is
the woman who named Secretary to
the President Tumulty and w. w.
Price, a newspaper man, as the pipe
lines which carried the leak. A twen-
ty-fOur hour search by sergeants at
arms resulted in report to the COM
mittee that she could not be- found,
resumed with greater vigor. Mrs. Wis
cont is known in Washington to have
made some private investigations on
her own account touching high Off
Gals, and the committee is anxious to
find her. Lawson told the committee
that he did not believe Mrs. Visconti
was the sort of woman to disappear if
she was wanted. But at her apartment
house home it was stated that no one
knew where she was although it was
thought she had left Washington. The
possibilities in Mrs. Visconti's disap-
pearance and her testimony have
aroused official Washington to a high
pitch of excitement
Big Financiers Summoned.
The demand for the testimony of
the big men of financial America came
as bolt out of the blue Representa-
tive Harrison of Mississippi, without
warning, moved that the committee
summon J. P. Morgan and Henry P.
Dawson of the firm of J. P Morgan
& company, Frank A. Vanderlip, pres
ident of the National City bank; j. S.
n. Bache and Arthur Upper of New
York, and Col Wexler of New Orleans.
These men represent the length and
breadth of the financial world, and
Representative Harrison said he de-
sired to get whatever information they
might have. He gave no indications
of what he wanted to ask them about,
and there was no mention of their
names in the days proceedings
Bernstorff Just Can't Believe 1t.
Diplomatic Washington has begun
to take the leak situation seriously.
During a day of sharp cross examina-
ton of Thomas w. Lawson, German
Ambassador Won Bernstortf's name
was again brought to the front. Law
son said that Chairman Henry told
him that he had heard Won Bernstorff
had made $2,0O0,0O0 in the peace raid
on the stock market. Lawson said ne
told Henry that he did rot believe the
report. Ambassador Won Belnstorff
made the following statement:
Mr.. Lawson says he does not be-
ieve I made the two million of which
he speaks on the stock market / don't
believe it either"