| Show W SON NAMES MEN HIGHER UP HP ACCUSES SENATOR AND A CABI 1 NET MEMBER OF STOCK GAMBLING POOL declares congressman told him film that secretary mcadoo and other men ln in high position had prof cited by inside information washington thomas thomaa W lawson baled haled hal ea before the house rules c committee to tell what he knew ew or had bad heard about a stock market leak on pr president ei wilsons Wll Wil sona sons peace note orbe or be punished calmly declared on monday that the congressman who told him a ca cabinet b inetor officer aicer a senator anda and a banker were engaged in a stock gambling pool was none other than represents tive alve henry chairman of the committee then before his hearers had time to recover from the shock lawson sprung one sensation after another by declaring that the cabinet officer referred to was secretary mead mcadoo oo 00 that the banker was H pliny of new anew york and that he know tn ane esen son ator ater only by the initial 0 O to complete the sensation lawson went genf on to charge that paul al warburg of the federal reserve board had bad knowledge of the leak machinery repeated armmor a rumor that count von bernstorff the german ambassador had made two millions in the stock market and ana to mention a list of well known mentho men who bethought he thought should be the committee promptly issued subpoenas for all of them mr lawson said he had been told that malcolm mcadoo thy the secretary secre b brother knew of the leak as did 0 D barney co and stewart 0 G gibboney of new york mrs airs ruth thompson visconti of this city hi be a said had declared to him in the presence of her attorney that secretary received hla his bit and that W W price price one of the white house correspondents spon indents on dents was the go between tor for turn alty arid and others 11 pliny fisk lawson said was the banker he referred to previously as dominating a ca cabinet binet officer and archibald S white he said had given him this information representative henry w was as said by lawson to have told him at the conferences feren ces that 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 conferring with bernard baruch the wall street operator said to have made a cleanup clean up on the falling market which accompanied the peace note lawson declared henry had bad asked him on patriotic grounds not to press his charges when kihen lawson had finished his recital chairman henry took the stand and swore that at no time had h he e mentioned to lawson the names the financier brought out on the witness i stand that he had no information then and had bad none now of his own knowledge and denied generally and completely all of lawsons testimony relating to him |
