Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1917 — LAWYER TO AID LEAK QUIZ [ARTICLE]

LAWYER TO AID LEAK QUIZ

Boston Attorney Named as Committee Counsel After a Long Wrangle— Woman First Witness. Washington. Jan. 19.—Sherman L. Whipple- of Boston a Democrat and a noted trial lawyer, was invited by the rules commit tee of the house to act as counsel in the peace note leak investigation, which, it now appears, will extend deeply into Wall street stock speculation, Further. public hearings in the inquiry were postponed until Monday morning in order to give counsel ahd the committee time to complete arrangements and prepare, for the future proceedings. The plan is to call as the first witness Mrs; Ruth Kiomason liisconti. the woman who Thomas W. Lawson says told him Secretary Tumulty and W. W. Price, a Washington newspaper man, were beneficiaries of the alleged leak.