The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-01-18
LAWSON OPENS
FLOOD Gates
Sensational Story Of Reports
and RunOFs Of Leaks"
HENRY GAVE INFORMATION

Othefs f'9h ~ GoscfnNent FU"HS
and Financial world--charman Of
inquiry Committee. mehtoo, tn.
muity and Price Enter Denia,s
Washington. Ian le Thomas ",
Lawson. hailed teiure Che house rules
committee To ten Whist BIO lguew or
aad heard about y stock mlrEet leak
on President Wilson's peace note. or
10 punished. ca.mly declares that the
mysterious con man Who toIt
Aim a cabinet oiHetr. o senator and
a haukcr we're onsased in stock
gam Ing pool was mono aifor than
entaiiEe Henry, chairman OF
the comm ttee.
Then. before bis hearers had time
10 recover from The shock Lawson
sprung one sensation after the other
b. dcelanng iInt the cabinet oiheer
referred 20 Was Secretary McAdoo,
that tic ban er was II. p fiske or
New York. and that Ne knew the
senator cHly hythe initial o."
To complete the explosion Lawson
went en- to charge that PAM N War
burg Of the federal reserve board had
knowledge or the leak machinery:
repeated rnmor that Count Won
Bcrnstorn the German ambassador.
had made 50 600 900 in the stock
market. and mentioned n list OF
well known men who, he thought
should lie questioned. The commit
tee promptly issued subpoenas for
all of them
Lawson said he had been told that
Malcolm NeAdoa, Tire secretary 8
brother, knew OF the leak, as did G.
ID. Barney & Co. and Stewart q.
Gibhoney Of New York. Mrs Ruth
#. Visconti Of this city, he said, had
declared TO him in the presence OF
her attorney that Secretary Tumulty
had received his bit" and that w.
w. Price one Of the White House
correspondents, was the go-betWeen
for Tumulty and others. "
Fiske, Lawson said. was the bank
or TO whom he referred previously as
dominating cabinet officer, and
Archibald s. White. he said, had
given him this information.
Henry was said by Lawson to have
told him. at the conference that pre-
ceded the opening of the leak In
~estiration, OF reports connecting the
cabinet officer, banker and senator,
and also 10 have told him Of reports
that Secretary Lansing had been
seen comforting with Bernard Baruch,
the Wall street operator, said TO have
made cleanup on the falling mar
ket which accompanied the peace
note.
Lawson declared Henry had asked
him on patriotic grounds not to press
his charges. At no time, the Boston
financler testified. did he ever say he
had direct information.
When Lawson had finished his re-
cital, Henry took the stand and swore
that at no time had he mentioned to
lawson the names the tlnancier
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 every
word he had uttered on the stand
was the truth, so help me, God,
without variation.
To back II IN, Lawson said that
after leaving Henry al their first con
ference he laid his information Re
fore John O Cosgroye. Sunday edi-
tor OF the New York World; + j.
Ridgway. president Of Everybody's
Macazine, and Donald Mcdonald,
publisher 81 a Bosom financial payer.
Cali these men, he demanded,
.and they will hear me out in what /
gay
McAdoo. Tumulty ana Price at once
Iesued statements DENYING Lawson s
references 10 them The committee
promptly ordered subpoonas for
Rideway. Cosgroye, Warburg. FlsEe.
Price. white. Malcolm McAdoo. GLIB
honey. Barney & Co. Mrs Nisconti
and John r. Rathbou. editor OF the
Providence. Journal who published
some articles about leaks Tu-
snulty and McAdoo will appear without
subpoenas.
With that the committee adjourned
until today to resume it's hearing on
the most dramatic charges of scandal
the capital has seen in many years
The sensational proceedings dis
posed 81 tho elaborate preparations
for holding Lawson In contempt Of the
house for his defiance Of tho commit
tee at the previous hearing
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