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y r LAWSON SAYS CONGRESSMAN ORIGINATED LEAK RUMOR SPRINGS BIG SENSATION In th« present leak and the toner I can iiupplr.tlie name and the amount he received and jfire the name of at least one associate at the White House who participated in the haul v .. . 5 "If you are interested, I will make an appointment to meet you at such a place as you may designate,' 1 * The letter requested that Lawson hold the information in the strictest confidence in case he did. not pro* coed further in the matter.; Tjawson then testified he rpade an F' Iki.vtou I'inaiuicr Calls \amcs When rommlttee Makes appointment with Mrs._yif|CohtJ, who <^!m» to his f i > rougressioiml Flsin Its l>etenninatiou to Let the ' *-X e<lge of son’s Keiimrks. Thomas W. Ladsoh, hajed. before the House rules committee to ‘tell what he knew or had heard about a stock riiarket leak on President Wil- son s peace note, or he punished, calmly declared Monday that the mysterious -ConKreBsman who told him a cabinet officer, a senator and a banker were engaged in a Block gambling pool was none other than Representative Henry, chairman of the committee. .* v A great crowd waa packed into the room when Lawson arrived. Police cleared an entrance for him. : . With a set of fourteen questions before him, prepared by Representa tive Lenroot, Chairman Henry began to question I^awson. When he had completed his first question, demand ing the name of the congressman who liCiWHon said told him of a cab inet officer, a member of congress and a banker reported to have been connected with the "leak,” and also their names, Lawson rose and said he desired to make a statement. "I am going to answer your qjues-' lions," he began significantly. - The trowd, which up to that time had visions of Dawson being placed in the tustwly of ah officer on con tempt charges, settled back with an obvious temporary los sof interest. Lawson insisted that lie iirst be permitted to make~n statement set ting forth that it was against his wishes to give the names ip public. Chairman Henry insisted, however, that Lawsotrshould answer the ques tions put to him and said he would apartrarent with an attor ney whose.name he could not recall. After a long conference, he said, Mrs. Visconti told . him thpit Mr. Price "had ft part in the leak affairs F»c<*-r-Jlonry IH-nlc., All Kno^Jr TumnltrAnd 6th * era. No reference wias made either by Lawson or the committee to the amount of money referred tb in Mrs. Visconti’s letter. Asked to whotn he referred as the "alleged senator" and alleged, bank er and an alleged memboV of the'cab inet, "Lawson said he understood Secretary McAdoo was the cabinet member, H. Pliny Fisjc the banker, arid the senator was a man who,he said he heard of only .* s Senator "O." This information, Lawson said, came to-, him from one source and^ was corroborated by another. He was not asked for the sources of th&£ information. ■* The seventh question asking to w’hom'Lawkbti, referred to by Baying a member of congress had given him three names of persons reported to have been involved in the deal, for the third time brought the reply: "Chairman Henry." The next ques tion and the two following were vir tually the same. / , Lawson then was asked if he had any other information in relation to his ..intimations that another "high official’' of the government had In formation, regarding the "leak" and that a relative of a cabinet official also has been mentioned. He replied that the firm of C. I). Barney arid Co., in Wall street, Malcolm Mc Adoo, a brother of Secretary Mc Adoo, and Stuart O. Gibborrey of the firm of McAdoo»and Gibboney, with offices at the Grand Central station and at lf>5 Broadway, were the men to whom lie referred. Spreakirig with emphasis, he added that "the public man who knew of the leak-inachinery was Paul Warburg of the federal re serve hoar a **iefti."‘ : In Chairman he would be excuied temporarily. Pep rosen tat i ve Pou assumed the chairman's seat add Henry; taking the stands began a statement. He first reviewed the introductlpn of the "leak" resolution by Representative Wood, told of seeing .Lawson's charges in the newspapers that (here was a "leak" and gradually Ted up to Lawson's visit to Was^tington to confer with him. J s - ... Henry explained how he had be gun a preliminary inquiry into the charges made by ‘Lawson ‘ and the matters presented in Representative Wood’s resolution. He first called Wood arid he could f not furnish "a single name or date or faef." Then he -reviewed (he telegraphic ^corre spondence with Law.~on leading up to Their conference January 2/ rr'Tl told Mr;-. Lawsort,^' Henry said, "that this wap a vefy itriportant and serious matter arid that insofar as I was personally concerned I would impose no restrictions of confidence but that if he had any facts that he thought lip should give in confidence I would respect his confidence. I asked him Over and over* again to name ^riy man who might > have knowledge of the subjectr. He did not name a single person, and I {fid not nariie one. "Here to-day, 1 declare that* dur ? ing ourv three hours conversation 1 did^not mention the name of any cabinet'officer he, has meationed .here to-day.’’ * Henry made his statement even broader, declaring he did not mention the nqme of any of the per sons Lawson had. declared he named. "I have ho fear,"*he added, ‘!flj_my The text of the recent Allied riti- matsm to G ercpeer,|| ,^;xzfiY matum To Greece, presented to the •Cftto department for its information Thursday by Charge Vourousfl of the. , Greek legation, reveals thaY the I coriipleted Thursdby by executive of reputation in the House or in the country, and what this gentleman says here to-day dpes not even dis turb me/’ ’ * Henry then referred to a c°ra" municatiori T^awson >had & sent- him early in-January requesting an in quiry into the stock exchange and that he be put in«charge 6f it. Law- son said in the letter that he would like to have charge "like Sam Unter- meyer did in tlie Pujo* investigation." Tf he could not produce valuable evi dence, Lawson’s letter continued, he .would be willing to be "ignominious- ly fired." . * * "After that/* Henry explained dra matically, "he comes and 'tells this bouse and the country -that fca Despite the declsiun of the chair- , ‘ \ ■ e ! 1 -V ■ ,,} - - , .*u< nee faiWson said ITiat Tohn R. pethom -^ ThQft-i‘ 'shouTecf man, l^awson insisted on niaking a statement and jdehried for an oppor tunity first to present his informa tion in secret. "May I not have just a word," he aaked in pleading tones. 1 will be short and to the point. It seems to me that you owe it to me to allow h me to state things which I think are absolutely necessary. ) am going to answer your question, if forced to, but I want to make one more appeal before I answer. "J stated before that my reasons for refusing to give the information 1 had were that publication of names might lead to the destruction of evi dence and also that a member of congress had convinced pie that the matter was serious to the nation and the administration. "But I did give one name to Speaker Clark, that of Charles H. Sabin, president of the Guaranty Trust company of New York. Mr. Sabin came before you and was al lowed to go away without giving any information or showing his books. Mr. Sabin has left the country and bis evidence is gone. "I am willing to > give all the names but I appeal to the committee to take all my answers jn carifldftnce. Then If the committee determines that I shall make them public *, I vepeat them in public. I don’t ymnt to quibble and 1 don’t want to re fuse.’’ Here the committeemen held a brief whispered conversation and Chairman Henry announced that the witness should answer the questions* publicly. Lawson looked at the committee sternly, squared himself in his chair and said in a voice scarcely audible: "Chairman Henry of your committee is the congressman who gave me the names." The room hummed, witlr excite ment. Members <>f the committee, although -they had hoard rumors that Lawson might connect Henry’s name with his charges, shifted in their chairs. Lawson, silent and grave, looked Mrqight ahead at the chair man. Mr. Henry, without a sign of pertubation. waited a moment for the buz/.ing to subside and then de liberately proceeded to read the next <1 no lion formulated by the commit tee. It was the hrst. language. Journal, arid the editor of the Bos ton .’Transcript might be good tfrit- nessqs. He lipid in his hand at tl)e time a' clipping from Thje Journal which he said referred * to "White Housevlqaks." The Transcript, he said, had a "flat footed’’ story re- (rutty 'about one firm making eight million dollars in the' market on December 2.0 and he thought- that should be investigated. - At that point Chairman Henry took up a list of cabinet officers and asked Lawsop if he had "connected" each‘of .them with the leak. . Com ing to the name of Secretary Lan sing, liiwsph said he had not made a suggestion of him in the affair in connection with the names the conj- gressman had given his as being parties to the "leak.’’ "Do you refer to Secretary Lan sing in any connection?’’ Mr. Henry asked.- . - "Yes.” Lawson replied. Heni^y then accused J .aw son of dragging the name of L.ansing into the hearing and Lawson flared up furiously. "I have held the names of Lan sing and the German ambassador out of this,’’ he said. "I have kept quiet when 1 have been charged with with- hoiding information which I have not, and I have been libeled in the press of the country as a result. One of your own members has said on the floor that it was a matter of dis pute as to whether*I should be in jhil of a lunatic asylum. I will not have tills thrown on me." ' Lawson then related in detail how he had come to Washington at the request of Chairman Henry and how Henry had told him that he wanted liis help to run down the leak charges. 'Lawson said he urged that they talk freely and in confidence. Congress wanted something tangible, he quoted Henry as saying, and add ed that the chairman asked him for any information that he.had about any individuals involved. U vi told him that the only thin~Y«r ~k*Hve Oairett asked, "you have no jinToly an elaboration of put in slightly diffc'rent ivfiTting to the fact that it made no diftV’-rme whether the information < ame to him as "rumor or -i/l!e mm ( | hrm.eht a r“- itor.Ciou from Lawson tbi.it Repro- Kontative Henry, had given him the' information .at their lonforoiiro in Henry's olfieo at the e'apitol on Jan uary 2. * The third question railed atten tion to Lawson’s statement that lie had been told by a broker that a New York hanker, a cabinet officer and ,a senator had a joint stork brokerage, account and directed that he tell the romniitfee-1he name of the irian who had given, him that information. "Tin* man who told me that- was Archibald S. White, Boston, of the firm of White and Co." V, Representative Harrison V m#ved and the committee approved that White be subpoenaed. Replying to the next questiori as to whom he had referred in his statement that members of congress had engaged iri buying and selling stocks Law'son said he could not give their names, as he did not know them. - It was in answering the next ques tions as to other persons who had given him evidence innaubstantiation of his various statements that I^aw- son brought in the names of Secre tary Tumulty and "William W. Price," White House correspondent of the Washington Star. _ He read^ letter from a Washington woman, Mrs. Ruth Thomason Visconti,, say ing In part:’ r dear Mr. Lawson: If the ‘My v came of the man who was the gor be done was to get first hand infor- mation arid to get it from other peo ple."'said Lawson. "I* said th 4 at 1 wofild not give him hearsay infor mation. ... I did not want to. besmirch any one unjustly, but I-do- clarcd tliat*I could give him a for mula for getting all the information through a real investigation. "I asked hitm what the .committee had heard. He s^iid the committee already heard that Secretary Lan sing had gone to the Biltmore hotel in New -York four, times to meet Ber nard Baruch. The chairman also ^iid that he believed Secretary l>an- .^ing absolutely -innocent of giving any confidential information ahd he asked me what I thought about it. "1 said. T will stake my head on it that Secretary Lansing did not do anything wrong.’ 1 also said that 1 thought Secretary Lansing might have boon giving information that was perfectly fair for any- man'to give. . "Chairman Henry also ^ told me that there had come to the commit tee a report that theGerman ambas sador had profited over 'two million dollars but he said he did not think tfiere was any truth in it/’. I^awson also 'dehlaretf that Henry pleaded With him at the end of their f^cond conference to cease urging an investigation of the "leak", charges. It would be a serious thing tO“the country, Lawson quoted Henry as saying to' have an inquiry* at this time. It might.be possible, howeyer, Lawson said Henry pointed out, to inaugurate a wide f Inqu+ry into the .stock .market sTfuatlon in the course of thirty days or so. As such an in quiry was to Lawson’s liking and as he had repeatedly stated that-the "leak," now under .fire, held noTp.- terest for him, he said he readily agreed. . At this point Lawson reiterated his statement that he never - told Henry, nor had he ,told any one, that he had direct infonnalion regarding "Mr. Lawson, I could say more. I could take another course, butd have made my statement and submit it to the house and to the country/’' Lawson started to reply but Hejiry asserted that be did not wish to haVe any colloquy with him. The chair man then placed himself before the committee and .urged them to ques tion him “searchingfly.". . * "Make it as scathing as possible." be added. "Nothing you may ask can embarrass me." "Did I understand you. to say/ asked -Representative Garrett, "that you never meiitloned any of these names to Mr.'Lawson?" "I did not/’ Henry replied. '"Nor did he. I should add here that when I-awson was on the* stand two or three times I had said to him that ’the bridles are off’ insofar as our conference was concerned and he stated nothing" to the committee." Asked by Representative Pou .if he had any artua^kpowtedge wf any one being connected wfth the so-called "leak." Henry replied that he never had such knowledge. "The first time/* he said, "I -Over heard of the name of a public official in connec- tian with this matter was at the Allies Notify Greet* of PoaeibU Ac- , lions t7pon ‘“Military Necessity" PLAN DEWEY’S FUNE1 To B* Impresstva National Affection. Plans to make AdmiraL Dewey’s furieal service Saturday one of the most impressive demonstrations of natiinal affection and honor ever ac corded in American history, were TWO OTHER SHIPS HAVE CAPTURED BY > m Allies notified the Athens gOvern- meiR in the communication "that military necessity may lead \ them shortly to/ disembark troops at’ Itea for^paSsage “by railroad to Saloniki." This portion of the ultimatum, riot mentioned iri press dispatches com ing to jthis country through the Al lied censorships, 4b regarded in Washington as highly significant, possibly forecasting a much greater concentration of Allied troops .in Northern Greece for a drive against the ./-Berlfn-Constantinople * railway line./. It confirms the expectations heHl in/several quarters that the Balkans soon are to become the the ater of a mote active campaign by theSAllies. . Another demand'•made by the ul timatum ^nd ji’ot mentioned in- the fij-st announcement cabled to this country, wouR^ require the. .Greek government^ to x guarantee that no civilians hereafter ^hall carry—arms. \. Officials of the Greek legation sm- nounced-rithat. a petition signed by more than three hundred x corpora tions and.labor unions of \G[re^pe ap- teryene to raise the Allied blockade of Greece ports had been presented to, American Minister Droppers, at Athens. /Th* legation officials said they had reason tp believe that the Allied censorship, had . prevented press djspatches regarding; the peti tion from reaching the United States flcials and Congress. * . Committees of the Senate and House.arranged details of the pub lic service to be held in the rotunda of the capital at eleven o’clock arid, the navy departirient,.-which will have 1 charge of trie cortege,/following the body dowit Peringylvania ayejiue and/5cross ttye Potomac- to Arlington cemetery^ arranged to-bring as many unitiv 6f trie naval, marine and minr tary forces as. possible to act as an ’escort, of honor. DSrittg the. day Congress adopted 'resoidtions providing/for/recess of the Senate.hnd House d-uring the ser* vices, and invited the president, (he catfinqt, justices of the supreme court, the diplomatic corps and high BRIM GIVE BUT Japanese Steamer Reaches Sowtft America With Crews of Destroyed . Vessels —News Not Surprimag Failure of Ships to Reach Desti nation Led to Suspicions. Fight British and two French vessels have been sunk iri the At lantic’and two UritiNh steamships captured by a German raider. arhiy and navy officers to attend the trie cap- SAYS ALLIES IN ACCORD vited hre expected to attend vifed are expected to attendthe cap itol services and “to*'have places in- the cortege. :/» committee consisting of sena- tors Tillman, Swanson, Bryan, Clapp, Page. Lodge,- D1 Bingham, KefnrOaL linger, Overman, ,Saul6bury and Smoot, was appointed to - officially represent the Senate at the burial at Arlington. Similarly a committee of twenty-five will be choseri and many /patriotic societies and other organi zations also are expected to send rep resentatives. Word came that Ver mont, the dead hero’s native state, will be represented by Gov. Graham, Ad)t.-~Oen. TWotson? the entire del egation in Congress and a committee of the state legislature. Announcjement to vthis effect wars made Wednesday by the British ad miralty, confirming reports which had been in cit^nlaliop for some time that a German rafder had more penetrated the screen of Allied wgfships, and escaped to the epca seas. ** Prctnirr Briand Comments bn Con- WILL MAKE NO REPLY So far asjs.fthowa by the British announcement, the raider is. sttll at large^V Apparently she has hecu riperating off South America. The following announcement was given out at London ofifcially Wed nesday: > "For some tithe past it had been assumed that the following British and French merchant ship*' whici had long been 'overdue had ‘been sunk by a German raider: British’, Dramatist, Radnorshire, Miiiek, Netherbyhall, Mount Temple, King George, Georgie, Voltairs; French, Nantes and Asnieres. Definite In- m ference Held at Rome. - While ‘returning to Paris from the Rome cdhference of the Entente Allies, Premier Briand made the fol lowing statement ’art Turin to a cof- n spondent of the Paris Petit Jour nal: All the chiefs of the Allied gov- decided er amt State Depairtinent Plans No Answer •,V“~ • — . ■ ..* ' 1 ' ‘ / to Allies. » ^There probabTy will be no separate reply to Great Britain’s supplemen tary note to President Wilson re garding peace, delivered to the state dttyartment Thursday. Officials conference. I may say. however, that during the discussion we, found that an absolute agreement existed'among the Allies; W'e decided to accentuate still further the co-ordination of our efforts.. After the conference at •Rome I have more than ever a deep conviction of oifr'ultimate victory." The'PgUt Parisien-'says the Rome conference considered thre.e (jues- tions: . Concerning Greece, in regard to which % Italy hitherto had made ^certain reservations: concerning the operations on the Macedonian front, and concerning greater activities in the war. "As regards Greece," the news paper saysi-’ijtaly accepted the poinC of view of her allies after having ob tained the explanations she desired. The’agreement as to ^the operations in Macedonia also is' complete and GreaL Britain, Russia, France- and Italy will apply one policy toward Greece and .toward making the nec essary 'effort at Saloniki.’’ z- - Hort. atitf cmrstruc’Tr as an endorse m^nt of .the president’s suggestion of a world league for peace, but no .formal statement *bn the subject is considered necessary at this time* arid it has not been decfded/what shall bfe the next move on the part. of the The reference in trie British note to the necessity for some form of iii- ternational sanction behind trtaty agreements. an$! international. law’ drew from German sources in Wash ington Thursday an authoritative statement that Germany under no consideration' would enter a league to preserve peace if she . should emerge from the war much more greatly damaged than her enemies. » ♦ » * ' formation has ndw been from Pernambuco confirming sumption.. . V "Gn the evening of. Mom Japanese steamer Hudson rived off Pernambuco, havin'] board the masters and two huni arid thirty-aieven men of the*crews #f some of the lost vessels, which were sunk on Various dates between De cember T2 and January 12. • iii In mhliiiina ihei'utfamer^rtti'Tlfey dore wajg. captured ami a pH re-crew put o» board, and the steamer Yar=: rbW’daie was captured ami sent away Vwith pbout four hundred^men, the crew s 4>f others, of the sunkeri ves sels, who were to be launched. Ne further news 'has yet been received of their whereabouts." GREECE'THANKS WILSON Hellenic Kingdom Pays Trtbute to President as "Wise statesman." FALKENHAYN IN GREECE GeneraP’Made Trip to Kavilla in a • Submarine. The Greek government in a note handed to the state department ex pressed the most lively interest and support of President Wilson’s peace note, called attention to that conn- Most of. these boats when last ra- ■ ported were in the south Atlantis, . indicating that the German raidar has been at work Off''the Soath American coast. * . . The German vessel was descrihad as a ship . of- about' four thousand tons, well armed and with torpada ‘tubes. She had one 'black funnel and two masts. . The Voltaire and Geprgic, - long overdue, had been virtually given up for lost. The Voltaire left Liverpael November 28 for New York and was not* heard from again. The Vol taire was a vessel of eighty-six hun dred and eighteen tons gross. . 8ka was four hundred eighty-five . feet long, fiftjr-eight feet beam and bjiilt af Glasgow in 1907."’ She* was owned by ^the Liverpool,' BraziL and River * Plate Steam Navigation company.. The White Star freighter Georgie sailed from Philadelphia December 2 for Liverpool with a general carge. The White Star agentsnurfr^ wrare 1 *tne ago that, her destruction ninet - 41** * !• White House on January 3- I thinks ——.— r „ _ when Secretary Tumulty 'old me he* Presence in Greece of Gen. von had heard his name was being men- try’s bitter.sufferings in the war and declai ed itself ready’Yor any i.etion ’TBe conceded. Her gross tonnage .was Honed in rumors. : "You are just winding up a twenty years service /in congress, are you not?” asked RepresentstUje Pou. , “Yes,-’’ replied Henry, "and I wish to Hate that I am retiring voluntari ly and that I could have been re- elected to the House from my dis trict without-the expenditure of single cent. ; , "I am not even going to ask you Whether throughout your congres sional career there, ever'has*beeri* a. black mark,’’ RepreseiUqtiVe Pou continued. ‘ • "If there ever has, I have never fcHirid-it out." Henry replied. "As a matter of fact," Represen- informatlon bearing on this sub ject?’’ "Not a bit on earth.*" ' "Did you even montino the name of . Secretary Lansing*, or Bernard Baruch'to Mr. Lawson?" Represen tative Lenroot asked. "T did ndt/ r ‘ As Henry left the witness stand Lqwson leaped to his feet with his fAce. flushed and eyes blazing, and fairly..shouted: “Kvety word J have uttered here,to-day was the ruth., so help me God. without variation!" "Immediately after leaving Chair man Henry,’’ Lawson conTinued, "T weht to Newi York end laid all the information I had before John O’Hara Cosgrave,. Sunday editor of the New York World. T also .sum moned Erman J. Ridgway of Every^ body’s Magazine.-and bold him how I had been to see Chairman Henry. . and how because of the se riousness.of the situation I had 'beerf F&lkenhayn, former German chief of staff and of late in command of part of the forces engaged in * the cam paign against Roumania, is. reported in French oficial quarters at Salon ika/according to a Re utef dispatch* from that point.- Gen. von Falkenhayn is said to have embarked on a gubmarine at the Greek port of Kavilla, now in the hands of the Germans and to have landed at a point on the Greek coast, whence he made his way to Larissa. The abfcenfce of hTs name from offi cial Berlin war reports has been loot ed for some days, r • ' Previous, messages from Saloniki said it was Gen. Bal'on von FaLken- hukeri, a member of the German mil itary commission^ which went to Greece in 1915/. who made the trip in the submarine. ensuring permanent peace and the rights, sovereignty.and independence Greek note says, "terms with. the of all states. * . ^ "The royaY government,"' the most ;lively interest of the- steps which the president of .the ‘ United States of America has just under taken among the belligerents for the cessation of a. long and cruel war, which is ravishing humanity." : The note then expresses Greece’s appreciation- of the. step taken by President Wilson to whom 1L pays tribute as a "wise statesman." CAROLINIAN PROMOTED Sam McGowan Becomes Rear Ad miral of tlie- Navy. ’ ers. There is no bigger man in this country than Paul Warburg. I gave Henry then asked Law’son if he had not stated that hfe received the best part of -his • iWformatXori from, him. . • • v ——— "Nothing of the kind," Lawson re torted hotly, "I merely got.from you. a commonplace, common sense state ment and I cannot understand why. at tills late date any inafr: should deny it, particularly wiien it does not amount to anything. -I am loaded with information. ’I’ll make good here and not go to jail as the goat." "You have said you \vould make good, will you make/good about Warburg?" asked Henry. "I have given v-ypu the^ names," was Lay son’s terse reply. r ~ "Oh/you cqity. bind me down here nnhrps- yQU' send W 4 to jail," Lawson requested to abandon piy efforts for an investigation. The next morning I*, met Donald McDonald of.'Boston whom T had-not sfen in fifteen years and 1 told him the &ory too/’. "Call these men.’’ thundered Law son, "and* they will bear me out in what I say." Lawson spoke particularly of ha r - inc: told the three men that Henry had spoken to. him about Secretary Lansing’s alleged breakfast meefings with Bernard. Baruch in New York. "Think of it," he quoted Henry as saying/ “he had breakfasted four times with Henry Baruch at the Bllt- mofe hotel in New York but I know there was nothjrig wrong.. Dori’t you think so j Lawson ? ” Lawson reiterated that;, he told Henry he did not believe'there was anything wrong In these meetings. "This If tlie~ most* astounding thing I have seen in forty-six years," Lawson concluded. "I do not have, the Investigation and It will not be forty-eight hours- before I will be vindicated to the world. I have given yon names that shake the raft- shouted defiantly "This committee thinks that It has full ppwer to make this investi gation." Henry continued. "Are you ready to. prbceed to make good on your charges?" "I recognize the authority of this committee/* Law’son said. "I gave you a'letter a little whiie iigo that I would rather have given one n^illion dollars than to disclose, but you made me do it. >1 would rather have one of my fingers cut off." "Oh, let’s adjourn and'«11 take a rest,’’- Representative Pou inter- rtfpted afd this brought the turbu lent proceedings of the day to an end. As the crowd began to disperse, the committee still in open session, decided to issue subpoenas and ad journed. ' Consulata Borglairtad. /; / . The ^American consulate at Algiers was entered by burglars Tuesday night, according to the Paris Matin. The safe was broken open and all papers In, it srsre stolen. Five new rear admirals of the navy authorized by. Congress at the last session; were nominated Thurs day by President Wilson. Four of the nominees are dep rtmental b\\- reau chiefs whose positions carry the rank of rear admiral during the term of office, arid.(he .fifth* is Dri Cary T. Grayson, the* * president's naval aide and physician amY now a passed assistant surgeon with rank of lieutenant commander. The Hon.*Samuel McGowan, whose appointment/as rear admiral in the United States navy was announced in the above dispatch from Washing ton. is a member of a distinguished South Carolina family. He is a na tive tif Laurens, where he was born September T, 1870, his parents hav ing been Homer L. and .Iri!ian Ann (Farrow) McGowan. . ♦ ten thousand and seventy^seven. Ska was five hundr.ed^and fifty-seven Hat long, sixty feet of beam • and waa built In 1895. - The Dramatist, fifty-four hundred and twenty-one tons gross and teur hundred and ten feet long, was bnilt in Glasgow in 1913. She. sailed fram Seattle November 9 and San Fran cisco November* 18, arriving at Calen December 3 and St, Lucia December 10, the last report/of her me ve in ents. The recent movements of the Rad norshire have not been recorded./f was a Royal Mail stam paektr forty-three hundred and two \i gross. She was three hundred eighty-five feet long and was bnilt in Sifridefland In 1913. The Netherbyhall,. forty-four hun dred and sixty-one tons gross, was three hundred and eighty-one, feet Jong'and was built in 1905 at New castle. She belonged to the Hall line of London. When last reported she was on her way from India to Curia. The King George /sailed from Philadelphia on December 24 and Wilmington November 29 for Man chester/being booked for a return* trip to Philadelphia. Her gross tan nage was thirty-two hundred and eighty-two. , . L —*-//-- i PLAN WESTERN EFFORT Miles to Start Something in „ Bel- giuriCund France. WEST INDIES NOW. IN U. S. Danish Island** Passed ruder Aim*ri- - can Flag Wednesday. The Danish West Indies. passed Wednesday under the sovereignty of the United States. Negotiations con tinued over half a century came to a conclusion with the exchange of rat ification pf the treaty of cession by Secretary . Tensing and Danish Min ister BruifT Formal transfer witl) the raising of the American flag wiTl takTplSce as soon as the twenty-five million 1 dollars purchase price is paid ovox within the next ninety days. The treaty provides that mean while the Danish governor shall con- mittee. one Dane and. one American, shall be appointed,to arrange, for further details. * The form of government is fn the hands of congress with some doul as to whether the islands will have a civil government or be administer- There is a possibility that another big offensive by the Entente Alliss in Belgium and France is in contem plation. A two days conference has been held in London between. Pr.e*- mier Lloyd-George and his war coun cil and the British and French com mander-in-chief. While nothing has been made public concerning" the eon- ference from official sources except thajt it is described as "important^/ an unofficial dispatch asserts-that it differed from the conference recent ly held in Rome in that military in stead ' of diplomatic questions took precedence. 1 —■■■ ■■■■ ♦ » + Wf MPPPSW n BRYAN COMMENDS WILSON Ex-Secretary Praises President’s At* titude in Peace Move. Former Secretary Bryan callt__^ the tVhfte House Tuesday and een^‘ g rat u la ted President Wilson on his peace note. * "The president has dons just fight,’" said Mr.. Bryan. "Anything the right, ubt calcul calculated to bring the belligerents should have tbs sup- psrt S svtry