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U. S. Insists 8-Hour Law Is ‘Constitutional and Workable To- Day's Weat@n—FAIR AND COLDER. FINAL be 10. FINAL 1“ Cireulation Boc Books Open to All.’’ ] f= Circulation Books Open to fon Books Open to All.’’| "PRICE ONE CENT. Senne: ¢ o'New Very Work NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917. 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. LAWSON, GRILLED, IN ANGER CONFESSES ’ HE HAS NOT ANY PEACE ‘LEAK’ EVIDENCE _ ——»¢o———— x == -_ CONGRESS HAS POWER TOFIK ELUSIVE “OWVER’ DETSQUADTHERE, "*SS28z33°%.. “TIP WAS FROM CABINET’ KEPT UNDERCOVER REEL CAMERAS T00, gmmm RAILROAD WAGES, U.S. HOLDS. SFFORD RAL BUT OFDODAT AL ro seat beens - ie F NN EIGHT- mt TEST Sul] Star Witness ave in Seclusion Twelve ad Police Rookies Giv e Any Name and a Motion Is Until Time to Face Wait .in Vain for First BY TUMULTY ON Made to Call Him to the Bar oft Peston er teal bh Rae Tanzer, 25-Cents-a-Day Meal. | , Arguments on the Adamson | PEAGE MOVE INOPPORTUNE, SALA Ati ia ATLL OS the House for ontem t. Act Are Begun Before the VIEW CREDITED 10 POPE CROW Db _JAMs COURT. BUYER FAILS TO APPEAR, C p Supreme Court. RE TET Newspaper of Rome Says He Will JUtY Box Filled and Clearing Beginning of Life Extension cee a LANSING ON STAND TELLS RIGHT TO AVERT STRIKE 4 | Up of the Great Mysiery | Societ s Test P ut Off Until | ‘ware / a | So Dec Be, . de AO fe be Eagerly Awattad i a riutevening A Denial That He Knew of HOW NOTE WAS SENT OUT | lowers. is Eas y Awa 5 | ening. : ; . sit . _ Federal Brief Asseris Railways! rose, gan. s—Pope Benedict wii ——. eis dhe Note and an Exoneration First Admitted the Law [declare the present moment moppor- trial which ts destined to bring Tweive hungry probationary police: by the President. By Samuel M. Williams. 4 Was Obeyabl tune for a peace movement, in no.cs Charles H, Wax, the spectacular in-) men, looking self-conscious but de- (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ” " Al to Germany and America, the news. “l¥idual of many aliases and an elab- termined, reported at 1215 to-day at| WASHINGTON, Jan. §.—Following WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Thomas W, Lawson broke down u'terly WASHINGTON, 3 Poe |paper Messagero announced to-day, Fate wardrobe, who disported him- the kitchen and dining room at No. is the statement Secretary Tumulty | in his efforts to bolster up tie charges that there had been a “leak” to 2 Jan, Annul- | ’ | , ca, 0 t m self with wome; “Oliver Osborne,” | 49 Lafay: arranged b: | 1 before his examination by the m ; a ‘ s ment of United States Circuit Judge | seater ee cone coe rennin Papcel cbse Btn Ree HW baadery ee Meats n id WLAN SON. Flatts Rvahai tte on the peace note| Vall Street of President Wilson's peace note when he was called to-day ‘ i A q cy_ | Nil be practically identical in terms me as * >| Hygiene L: io » A . eae ‘ ~, i aes pecs a eiae the Hie and will be despatched by the Vati.| maintains that James W. Osborne! gin a threo wees’ diet teat at 2 vad mn yy [teak beman as the star witness before the Congressional Investigating Conimittee. a mie ts "oe ates fons!) can Wednesday. in them, the Mes-| Was the “Oliver who wooed her, be- A day each, Also were present two “L appear before this committee to Instead of a sensational disclosure there was only a fizzle. Instead au lem of the rallroad'’s suit | sagero de the Pope will narrate gan to-day before Judge Learned!” Pate the ¢ intimation that J : : nay 3 A * ‘was asked in the brief of the Depart-| his own personal efforts toward peace Hand in the United States District | ™2VIN® pleture operators and twe ive ey i ja ee "a Me. of names and definite information to sustain his charges, Lawson merel¥. f ment of Justice filed in the Supreme | and his desire for stopping of the | Court oi photograpi five Mterary| ighbaamere te le . spluttered, squirmed and evaded” 9°) Py - a eel Gna | great war, but sum up his conclugions » Ut wea that of #ragkiim D. Safford, Hmiies, twenty reporters and ten or Baruch in regard to the ‘#0 t alec x iG kn ek f service” wet ana] tat the timo Is mot yet ripe for! clerk in the Kehsington Hotel at ithe “Cane Squad,” aa ordinary re peace note sent to the European bel- He tried to stir -up wordy controversies .{o “cover lack of defiatte’ ‘ ek id 2 ae definite tops. | Plainfleld, N. J., who is charged with | aT hh by the Secretary . wlso 20-@ wage law, (he Federal brie t| ian . ‘iniee veriary th Bivinelabern ten anes |? ortera describe the highbrow persons ligerents last month by the Se testimony and for a time succeeded in creating an uproar. | | | Imation was con: | 4 ; contended, “the law is constitutional, Osborne registered at his hotel as | ¥!t! See aeiied isan Lashed os See amie be pe 40 to thie| Eventually; under cross-examination by Chairman Henry, Lawson ‘se within the power of Congress to | rote Osborne” In October, 1914, and | 22! délan to deserihe events not o: tained in @ statement mad 3 t enact and workabl |that Rae Tanger was with him, ‘Phe | World-wide Importance, | committee by Representative Wood | Was pinned down to a flat confession that he had no first hand or even Inférentially, the brief argued that |appedrance of Wax upon the scene! ut there was no luncheon, Miss — of Indiana, a man whom € do not! second hand knowledge of any “leaks."” compulsory arbit ation legislation | with his statement that he is the man | Marian F. Walker, who was to have| ai , ent 0 owled ¢¢ | 4 ‘ att such as is under considetation, als who tvok Rae Tanzey to the hore done the marketing and to have re-|Okt Building That Once naw To tie bet emp neta Lawson sought to cover up his lack of facts with denunciations of ‘) is constitutional in behalf of public Jada a new interest to the case. ported at 9 o'clock at the “labora | da Big Dry Goods Busi- |‘ ™*v* "ever ; the sysiem and calls for a genuine iavestigation to expose Wall Street interests to prevent tie-ups of trans- The jury box was filled at the| tory.” did not appear or send a sub ainjy he made no effort to find out . portation facilitie morning session, It wasidecided that |Atitute. The last any one connecte ess Is Destroyed. }'me truch from me bofore dragging, With its “Damnable condition of affairs, and gigantic robbery of the ‘ Practicability of obeying th jew a Oliver" us well ax the other wit-{ With the movement saw of ber wa cenieiansi | ao uasna: Rin. cata heave American people.” «e@ the brief asgerted, has been adinittes esses should be kept out of court | Saturday evening. Ridley's old store at the soucaweat |”? at "1 St athe, a eee, err - egain and again by railroad official ntl called to testify. Rae Tanzer| (Bulletin t enIeWorlditedin. |. c ae Rercitana andiGrohardiditentadn? have had no correspondence, ; Finally when he was pinned down by categorical questions Lawson particularly in hearings before Con saw the call in the office of| Miss Ula Met . Social director | 5 Sd 4 ‘| written or telegraphic, with Mr. Ba-) said he had “no knowledge of a legal court kind. Eressional committees list Aucus wis P.M. Mon. |# M4ndmark of the days when Grand] ve With Germar and well-under-| — Relatior » the from the established wtood ten-hour standard day proposed eight-hour standard w that was necessary or Intended,” the F ody rep) regard- The first witness « or anybody representing him rex! i : anler, one of} and sere |ruch or anybody ating DIM, BAYS CABINET OFFICER GAVE® 4 and in conferences with President | State Cantina Asks silt aap court was crowded| day, Jan. $-Mias Walker just tele- | L @ fashionable shopping | carding this matter. I have had| LEAK TIP. formally that Lawson be cited before, | Bah cekamed tha mere change! Alleged Description of U, S. ia Zhe OPCHINg. OF NS AEVOrAGHN Mens] PEOnRG to seo Why ponRdy had | thoroumhtacs 1 the English lane) oe eiephone talks with Mr, Baruch! A cilinax was reached In the abe the bar of the House for contempt, , All as | sion, | telepioned her to come downtown | guage was spoken on the Kast Std noon sexsion when Lawson sald a] it was agreed that action on the ed was U, §,{ and begin marketing. She will be member of Congress had mentioned | contempt motion be suspended tem- ing tix matter, T have never talked to him th him or anybody representing, OF who had b one else, publicly or pr was destroyed by a fire which started shortly before noon 1 ety, Which. ia_|, Liundreds of persons employed in| 1} : ee Commissione Houghton, before! here this evening.) | opr name of a Cabinet oMecer | porarily while further questions were n mixed up in the leak! put to Lawson WASHINGTON, Jan. &—-The re- Whom the alleged perjury occurre He brought to the stand a record of| d ugene Lyman Fiske, medical tor of the so rt » arse: e rency ve * speculation At the openin, of the rlef stated, cittng that 85 per cent, of /Port by the Overseas News Agency | f* Origiial SPocesAiigs ageinat the da to prove that young mea lead. | ‘"°, Luliding hustled to safety by vez wala < lth Ehdea dee ila coAtier A ool ic Samim rine o@loery” Nalgene te Piast EL the naa the employees affected are now em-) that Ambassador Gerard at a public! gerendant ling wousually active lives meme aa ve"! et wish to deny generally and ape-| was asked stand. He made a categorical denial ployed on a ten-hour basis, nour | “ome back to Germany had sald) Assistant U.S. Attorney Herschen-| from neighborhood stores for a quar- | on wt ote iFM) cifically that & gave advance Infor'| + refuee to anawer.” oA basing ane War incasca eee Admitting that a rigid seh ven. {that “never since the beginning of stein, opening for the Government,|ter @ day, was there. He had copies | ore Durned eu mation to Mr. Baruch or to anybody! “Who was the menmber of Con-|the peace note, and in this he was day for train operation pletely practicable, the F neys said the Adamso ‘ enforced at least xo far as is possible, | 80 cordial as now “pwo co-ordinate branches of the| quired Into by the State Department Government have evidenced the opin- | to-day through a cable to the Am- The fire was the occasion of three hh summoned Chief Ky | work the firemen confined tfe blaze to the cor ner building, It was the first ble daylight fire the e the war have the relations between! recited the allegation of the prosecu-|of the speech he meant to deliver jermany been | UO that Safford was taken to the} were Dr, Mary 8. Rose, the officially in. |Home of the attorneys for Miss ‘Tan-| dietitian, ver and kept suppl money both br else in regard to the peace note, 1) grems? | sustained by an authorized statement did not know of the existence of this 1 refuse to answer, because It was! from President Wilson, He denied | note or (hat this Government contem-| given to me in confidence and I wes| having breakfaated, lunched or dined plated the deapach of such @ note} not in any way concerned in the] with Bernard Baruch or given him or until after printed copier of the note! transaction, 1 refuse to give the| any one else any hint about the peace leral attor aw should be the United States xy nd Miss Mary MeCormick, d with iquor and) the statistician, both of the ‘Teachers ore and after the giv-|College. So were Mesdames Jennings, | st side haw ene ¢ of his testimony, , "Connor, | (i been Kiven to r@ronentatives of of the high official concerned, | no; he tae te conatitutionnl,” |bassador personally, ing of his testimony, | Murray and O'Connor, widows of po-|joyed for a had been given to r@ron [name of the high offcial concerned, | note, se Nhat the |e bic ly this! Officials, in making this announce.| VOntinuing, Mr. Herschenstein said: |Meemen, who were to act as| wien tlle” the press by the State Department.| peoaune of the werlousness of the sit-| secretary of State Lansing was the the belef continued. bls NAc a laced anid thee: wiahed to. koow es. | TRS GOvarnment will produce t » | aitrennes ihe (eenaeans | was not consuited in the prepara-| uation and the dunger {t would In-|next witness, He told how the an. pourt will not strike nite hai sh MIRAI CCARANA NAO cuald real Oliver Osborne who went to the ne twelve dictary heroes were th Slane tories | Hon of the note by the President or] volve to the American people.” | nouncement about the peace note was mere prophecies of its effect." | ac Na ad sa : 1 he builk stories | 1 rig tute. By ip Ttmaent oF | valve Hien Reenter! | ent i eure virlngement of the liberty| The action of the department was) Plainfield Hotel and signed the register | missed to thelr ordinary eating places high, was subdivided tito stores on| 22 Sh¥body else, The conferences) “When an@ whore did this cunver- | made public, and sald that there were Mleged tntring nded, does not | interpreted as evidence of the tin-| tere, although the defendant has| and {t was announced that Mra [tre icrmand fleet cand lofta ne en | and communteations relating to the | sation occur?” | three persons other than newspaper : was contended, does not ‘ ; he ground floor and lofty and face | Qed ane pate ah ite woman [tat My shpat he : i nee pte iach validity, nor “the aa-| portance attached to the possible ef-| SWorn it Was James W. Osborne, And] Fiske, the doctor's wife, would dol tories above, Numerous tallor shopa| UPattin of the note and its despatch | “T refuse to anmwer, because if you| men present when he gave the pre- e Governm nt will also prove t ndant gave this testimony f t were confidential between the Presi- | nave that you have the whole in-/iHminary announcement He did not 4 |dent and 1Re Secretary of State. 1) formation.” think these men would tell of what knew nothing of them whatever nor) Representative Chipperfield moved! had happened did any other person employed in the, a oo eertion that Congress enacted this/ fects of such an utterance, especiuily \ | this de tives and upon|"pon publle opinion in the allied law trom Improper motives al arta} @ pe Jo'clock this afternoon with the fol . countries, where published clent information jcountries, CRRIAMMARTE CER tavetoient ‘ er of /have shown an tmpression that the maa Houghton, examined | jowing menu 4 Arguing for the supreme power o! by Mr Rand, testified ay to the action | % Qongress over interstate commerce, | President's note was in some way) before him and the testimony of James | Jeonnected with the Central Powers'|W. Osborne that he had ne tho orief sald Rae Tanger before and had n ‘ the {dea of [Peace proposal. Kvery effort has been ‘In the Adamson law Janywhere w And one by onelto pe seat | yey been | made to dispel that bellef. | ‘old ae [to be prem the Board of Arbiiration® he papers and docu £ by direct rather than| It I felt that if the Overseas News! ments vO preceding trials} The dining room is an unused! jacob Glass, ladies’ su ted by direct « a | ding trials i sien 4 v4 board. Wage regulation |report were allowed ty go unchal-| were placed In evidence |store. ‘The great show windows have| as rou, ‘ hae a vital connection with interstate leo od thet feeling would be very} _———e- - been screened from the street with| ¢ sherg, wholes commerce. Congress's power is ample |™ enough to authorize direct control | partment was p! nh incre As a result the de | WHEAT AT $2 A BUSHEL |white sheeting and wreen baize] rhe blaze had mpt in making: puo- | ' rereens divide the floor into. three! ( o the rent and | coi tments—din.ng room, kitchen a . relation of persons en- |lic !ts inquiry to the Ambassador and LONG PREDICTED PRICE | inpar over the whgp relation of persone | probably will give out his reply when | jand a lounging room at} this afternoon's marketing and the! first meal would be dinner at 530] factories — ove nd oh quarters on the upper floors and Danie! Jones, a furniture dealer, oc- | cupled one store on four floors on| Lamb stew with vegetables; stewed line Oret Htreet side as w store. | Uxecutive Office | Japricots; gingerbread and coffee Jhous» for furniture. ‘The sround | NEVER BREAKFABTED, LUNCH PRESIDENT WROT THE NOTE Commissioner Woods hax promised |quee stores were oveupled by flea} 2 OR DINED WITH BARUCH . ently the only insinuations ovate ON HIS OWN TYPEWRITER ery and | with or met Mr, Baruch at the Bilt | move Hotel at or about the time of) After Mr. Tumulty read his | the preparation of the President's Goldman, ert ad _Berainaky pai ate-|making #tatements in such clreum- in Jones's ment (to be found in another column) | stances.” : sugsestion that the Buropean belitg THIS “MR. CURTIS’ WitPd R060 | oreete geet thais nan ms. [have Chairman Henry said he had no ques- ose & Co, stoves, iS A VERY BUSY MAN. multy added he did not oh. | Campbell questioned the President's | think the “leak” could have occurred ! ban- | secretary. jon the note through any employee of Ainners, when many | 415 yol, know who alded in the | the Executive offive, He then rea@ @ other personn were present. 1 have letter from 1. T. Russell, editor of | never discussed any 4 er} preparation of thin note? the Newark Morning Ledger, refer- when f was in prosp ring to the mysterious “A. Curtie® | who wrote Representative Wood, au- thor of the investigation resolution, “What prompts me to write,” sald way upward to the top ‘P| never breakfasted, lunched, dined ox| tions to ask and Representative! yey apy taken any meals with Mr. b I have met him only at severa | quets and large Irnituye warehouse on gaged in interstate commerce, ‘There | PF’ the |recelved was divided only The twelve pro hon rtainly falls within that power : ‘ mae right to take all steps necessary to| !t {8 indicated also that tue report!) \ Ked for Immediate Deliy a , s quoted di convey a tr ley to report to Mina Mo( Sparen put down a strike or prevent an im- a8 quoted cid wet er oy Lies HS < Foreed to That Figure in r . 4 a: H an Pa 8 nani pending one,” of Corman-Americg wear a ‘ what they uk, and how| No. 42 at Orchard ahd Hester Streets 4 rato brief was filed by F have. cos in described ¢ Chicago Pit they have smoked each day, fe sapere c mC wiralned through the recent sub nore ‘ Hagerman of Kansas City, HICAGO, Jan, 8.—For the ft aasistant to the Attorney Hagerman contended the nuched to-day a E predicted goal, | ave been affected away from the) Rinna Carla, the principal, ordered —— « had previously admitted but now deny NEW SUPREME JUSTICE, | two dottars w bushel Inboratory the Orchurd Street doors locked and| (.” wooden partitions, and soon burst n meals and] cprough the root. not to eat betw ary exactly] The 2,600 p wniy be ce or o ak was uwbout to be dismissed for the note, « ect “The President prepared and or afterward, with Mr. Barueh or any If," enid Mr. ® Tumulty. “He is an expert ty ot rine activities wrote the note him: Ko wos heard, Mra ne, war cprices on whe here | other person engaged tn the purchase of securities of any kind tn ih f each day will be pub | the stock market writer in addition te hie ether |, isuee Ha 8 peace the, the law {s capable of operation. Judge — No. 2 red wifer wheat for imine he Menus oF each day ne pub-| the pupils In Heate "While this i# a complete denial of — achievemente. name of ‘Curtis! is brought in 4 Sears of Baffato Ap) diss delivery sold at that price, an {ished with a d yunting for SERENA MAUD CRAL THEBYTaEITE MT uiaintinte ein ie 6 as Hook, he said, sustained its prac- hucéied dudac lauaa, ne p Ree ‘i is tare EEN ae ae ne only insinuations pole have bee "Did any stenographer or clerk In) having written the Wood letter using teabillty by ordering the raliroade " | dade advance of about de singe Saturday y a m got | a the « and the | made, 1 wikh to go further and aay ape 3 : on : iJ year tie ALBANY, Jan. &--Charlon B ' Pressing nand for shipment to] ‘The twelve p uv pollosmian'| ashasl’ wan ach baaiknad by mocean res NAVE haven anteand in the Executive offices know of the ex- |Your name and I recall that om @ ga. bero special #60 Ww to insu, Of Buffalo has been appointed Justice | \ yi sly . Istence of the note? number of occasions, under varioye = — 4 rope and for domestic milling needs | selected by Commissioner Woods and| frantic mothers with, #hawle ov t sales or purchase: elt no y ; employees under the law to insure of the Supreme Court in the Bighti ' -lgpesia t 1 \tt da clamoring ‘for their chi-| MAFKet salee or purchases myself mor) ay 4, oo ynow. suspicious curcumstances, since I” U their prompt payment if it in aus- | Judicial Distriet to succeed Cuthbert w | Were Ronerally accepted aw the rea. | Inepector Cahalane Henry Stop. | their heada cli im FOr FS through brokers’ friends or agents ‘i 4 : . : i pind \ ‘ , . sone for the rise, fer, James Hanton, Feltx McKenna, | 47@® i ane Drakidante nab Have you any information as to, have been in Newark I have received perane DY wie Bunrane Court POUDA SOD Macias OB AMDTIATS | | > | gutta Ridley building hae been on tire! "1 discussed the President's note’. 2° 1., Isak occurred? Mr. Camp. | telephone onlle from New Wee ae —_— Judge of the Court of Appeals Simultanoous with the ascent of| Matthew Shoa, Joseph Peckington, | syveral times since the Ridieys moved | with no one, first, because my oath, | | P98 New THE WORLD THaV ye u ‘The nomination will be sent to the! Wheat, other grain went soaring, | Stwurd A. Robertson, Charles J.| out, About twelve years ago !t waa) op service requires that 1 make no Dl! asked |& man calling himself ‘Mr, Curtis tee er pace ate Wednenday night. Seare Is Pros. | TM® Com market Jumped to above! young, Charles J. Gilroy, James Ho-|the acene of a five-alarm night fire| Of Rervice requires that | make no U1 Te. ate crumulty replied. and allering himeeif to be a banker tage, “ie tia alt Ber. ident of the Buffalo Bar Association Ry fue! and Detloy touched #1. | on ohn 2, Pournion Memnaré ¥,/ 000. 1he yigts fae & biases ta the! Fee ecey trent apecifically, be. “APY opinton L might have would be|or broker, In each case he under! | isos, wee cit Aa ait) - —_—-— | oa Reilly, Righard ona and Joba! nei Mace eih ceopativtaiotnic te basins speculative and would involve repu- | took to give me tips of various eerte | tg, r : -DA ninge will 7 , nil up the i f \ | : Fo gh no Berkman’ ¢000 hart, an eed MMluitinee kav, For Racing Entri 5. | H. A. Smith, history of the old structure. Wontinued on Second Page.) tations, 1 am very careful about of what was happening not omly im ‘ 4 ‘ \ ‘ ; . " = abil