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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1917
Page
7
Law son testified about bankers warning stock exchange men against pyramiding in industrials and urged more rail way stock purchases. Lawson faced questions on Untermyer and Om Owen, with others denying his charges. He defended delaying Price’s name and argued a major wrong lay behind the matter. Hearing adjourned for lunch.
Thomas W. Lawson testified amplified claims about a stock gambling pool linked to a cabinet member a senator and a banker. He named Henry as the rules committee chair and hinted at involvement by McAdon Fisk and a senator, while insisting a fair hearing is needed and denying syndicate ties. He discussed funding the Money Trust inquiry and paying experts.
A transcript reveals Henry and Lawson discussing deep state questions as reporters push for names and a full investigation. They reference Baruch, Secretary Lansing, Count von Bernstorff, and a potential $2.6 million in dealings while weighing what to reveal publicly versus in committee.
Lawson testifies he never named Henry or McAdoo with the rumors and says his confidences were in confidence. He recalls discussing leaks with Archibald White and Billy Fisk, and notes Press and committee actions over contempt threats. Bernstorff’s name is volunteered by Treary in Lawson’s accounts.
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Lawson testified about information on stock market fluctuations and a conspiracy tied to a peace note. He disputed that a cabinet member was cleared by a letter and confirmed a claim that William W. Price received cash through Tumulty as alleged by Ruth Thomason Visconti.
Lawon testified that Mrs Visconti offered information from a White House official about the alleged leak and that he produced a letter under oath after being asked. He said the letter concerned payments to W Price and Secretary Tumulty, with Tumulty receiving a larger sum. He described Visconti as insistent yet insisted there was no motive to mislead, and recounted Tumulty cursing him over a refused phone briefing.
The German ambassador Count Johann von Bernstorff rejected Lawson’s claim he earned two million from a stock leak related to the President's note. Pat M. Warburg and others testified or denied involvement. Morgan of J P Morgan & Co. said he would testify if subpoenaed, with other named figures denying or silent on Lawson's leak allegations.
Omaha date: Mrs Ruth Thomason Visconti is sought as a witness in a leak investigation. Her brother Guy Emmett Thomason says she worked for Burns agency in New York and later as a Washington stenographer, with recent minor detective work noted in a letter.
Doctor J J Caldwell states the distressing disease does not shorten life though not curable for sufferers under forty. Attacks recur periodically, then lessen and vanish. Palliative steps include diet, two anti kamnia tablets at first symptom, and one tablet every two hours. anti kamnia tablets are sold by all druggists as A K Tablets to relieve pain and distress.
Ruth Thomason Visconti, once employed by the Burns Detective Agency, was allegedly planted in Burns's New York office by West Virginia politicians seeking to uncover agency involvement in a senatorial election fraud probe. William J. Burns said she joined in December 1922 as a stenographer, was discharged by February 13, 1913, and denied recent employment with the agency. Meanwhile, Washington residents will attend a Little Women screening at Polis Theater, with an invitation from the National Library for the Blind.
Maj Carroll F Armistead is acting quartermaster while teaching at University of Arkansas Fayetteville Ark. Capt Shiepler W Fitzgerald will go to Jamaica Plain Mass for aeronautics duty. Several officers receive leaves transfers and resignations including Lieut Edgar Dilcher and First Lieut Leslie Meador. Major Ol a W Bel reassigned as professor at University of Chicago. Lang orders cover many unit moves and inspect duties in Eastern department and Southern department.
A garbled list details Asts and Surgs assigned to naval hospitals and medical schools including Washington DC and Puget Sound detachments. It notes ships and yards at Norfolk Boston Mare Island Culebra and other ports with personnel transfers and arrivals such as vessels named Aylwin Bale Baltimore Conyneleal Cyclops Jupiter Kanawha and more, plus several training and support locations.
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