Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-29 | Page 3 | Lawson Called to Washington

LAWSON CALLED TO WASHINGTON Chairman of House Rules Committee Wires Boston Financier to Prove Statements. Washington, Dc. 29. The controversy contro-versy which has followed Congressman Congress-man Wood's resolutl6n for investigation investiga-tion of whether any member of President Pres-ident Wilson's official family profited in the stock market because of "inside "in-side information" on the president's peace notes, got Into semi-official form today when Chairman Henry of the house rules committee telegraphed telegraph-ed Thomas W. Lawson of Boston to come to Washington and substantiate his published statements that he knew of the so-called leak and his prediction that there would be another. an-other. "Put up; or shut up," said Chairman Chair-man rlenry's telegram. "Cease slandering slan-dering and libelling congress and public pub-lic officials, or make good your charges." Mr. Henry announced that he would re-introduce his bill next Tuesday to regulate the New York stock exchange. ex-change. "If Mr. Lawson states the truth about Wall street and an alleged leak," he said, "it conclusively shows that the bill introduced by me in the sixty-third congress to regulate the New York stock exchange should be speedily passed and should even be made more drastic. "This short session should find a way to protect the American people against such crimes as the one just perpetrated by Wall street, if Mr. Lawson is anywhere near the truth."