Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — OFFICIALS ARE VINDICATED [ARTICLE]

OFFICIALS ARE VINDICATED

Leak Committee Reports Lawson’s Charges Not Substantiated. Washington, D C., February 28. —Vindication of all public officials whose names were brought into the investigation of charges that there was- a to Wall street on President peace note was voted unanimously by the house rules committee. The committee finds that Thomas*

W. Lawson’s charges were not substantiated; that It. W. Bolling, brother-in-law of sie President, had nothing to do with a leak, and i hat advance information concerning the note was given to brokers by J. Fred Essary and W. W. Price, ■newspaper reporters, —who connected deductions with facts obtained in conversations with other reporters who had been told in confidence by Secretary Lansing that a note was coming. In connection with newspaper ethics, the report says, a subcommittee has been appointed to confer with the standing committee of the correspondents to determine what changes shall be made in the rules regulating admission to the congressional press galleries.

No recommendations are made, but the practice of selling short on the New York Stock Exchange is said to be criticized, F. A. Coh-, nolly, a local broker, is cehsured for his testimony before the committee, and E. F. Hutton & Co. for failing to produce copies of all messages concerning the note which reached its office. ;