Break of the war. Wall Street was closed up, and very few offices were available.
"Did you ask it as a favor?"
"I didn't ask it as a favor. I thought we had a right, however, to use any proper influence we could use."
WILL PLED OUT OF PRICE
CHANDLER FOR OFFICES
Two other concerns, he contended, sought to lease offices to the bank. Mr. Fink could not recall the prior charged, but said he would procure the information for the committee.
Mr. Whipple placed before the committee the accounts of the market dealings of the Fisk firm during the "leak" period, and asked if they contained the names of any public official.
"The witness replied in the negative.
"Was it said that since the leak in the Quincy started, Mr. M. Adoo once declined to converse with him over the telephone, and again, in a Washington hotel, said publicly that until the investigation was ended they would have a communication with each other.
"A week ago last Tuesday, after having been excused temporarily from the investigation before the committee in Washington, he said he telephoned Mr. McAdoo's office that he would like to see Mr. McAdoo.
"Mr. McAdoo," Fisk testified, said.  Through a clerk, that he was busy and would call me Letter McAdoo wrote that it would be only wise and proper for us to have no communication until the legal inquiry was over. As recorded by Representative Campbell when he last talked with Mr. McAdoo, this said it was last week, the last Friday. 