The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-01-17
LEAK PROBE
Droadcns Into u General Market In.
qnIry--Morgan and Other Powers
Of Wall Street VIII BE Called
Before Congress-Laws0n
Temporarily DIS.
missed.

drag net over the financial district
OF New York, the House Rules Com
mittee today extended the peace note
leak investigation to a general in
quiry into the stock market. At an
executive session the committee con-
sidered the advisability of employing
expert counsel familiar with financial
affairs to conduct the examination Of
witnesses. 1t was also planned to ask
Congress tomorrow for an extension
OF time to report.
AS the first step in enlarging the
scape Of the hearings, the committee
subpoenaed ]. p. Morgan, II. p. Davi-
son, f. A. Vanderbilt, Arthur Upper,
Sol c. Weller and J. ]. s. Bache, New
York financiers.
Vying in interest with the summon
ing of the flnanciers was the disap-
pearance Of Mrs. Ruth Thomason Wis.,
cont, who said Thomas w. Lawson
told him Secretary Tumulty land 9TH
ers" had profited In the stock market
by the leak and that William w. Price,
one of the White House correspond
ents had acted as the "go-between" in
the affair and received $4,000 for his
work. Sergeant-at-Arms Gordon and
several assistants tried in vain to find
Mrs. Viscont. Mr. Lawson expressed
great surprise at her disappearance.
Woman Reappears
Mrs Visconti surprised the search
ers tonight by reappearing at the
apartment house, in which she lived
and which had been under surveillance
since last night. A deputy sergeant-at
arms promptly served subpoena di-
recting her to appear before the COM
mittee tomorrow morning. She prom
Used to be there, and the officer left
her in the apartment.
Lawson, whose sensational testi-
mony yesterday aroused the committee
to 60 to the depth of the leak rumors,
occupied the witness stand today, re-
viewing and supplementing his state
ments.
At the outset Lawson attacked Rep
resentative Henry's denial of his tes-
timony and emphatically declared that
he or Henry was guilty of rank per-
jury. In characteristic outburst,
Lawson shouted his reiteration that
he had told the truth.
when there is a direct difference
of opinion-stronger than a question
OF veracity-" said Lawson, ut is per-
fectly obvious that one or the other
of us in committing perjury-delber-
ate, rank perjury. Unless your chair
man said the things that have said
he did, am guilty of foul perjury and
| am unfit to be here, or anywhere
else outside the bars of a Jail"
ElabOrates on Story
Lawson again brought the names of
Secretary Lansing. Count Won Bern
storlf and Bernard Baruch into his
testimony as the men Chairman Henry
told him he had heard leak" rumors
about, and elaborated on his story
told yesterday regarding Henry's al
legged statements concerning them.
In that connection in answer to in
quiries by Representative Garrett as
to what Henry told him about "a cab
met member, member of Congress
and a banker" Lawson said he never
had asserted that Henry had told him
anything about Secretary McAdoo, the
mysterious Senator o" and H. Pliny
Fisk. The cabinet member Henry
spoke of, Lawson said, was Mr.. Lans-
ing and the banker, Mr.. Baruch. The
fact that Baruch is a speculator and
investor and not banker had led to
a misunderstanding in the committee
regarding Lawson's previous testi-
mony. Information, Mr.. Lawson said,
which he received in regard to Nc
Adoo, Fisk and Senator o" came from
another sourse which he did not re-
veal.