"I was leaving the New Willard Hotel when Mr. McAgo came in," he said. "I said today to him, he turned and said to those about him: "Until this leak inquiry is over, Mr. Fisk and I will have no further communication." Fisk said his firm retains in Washington's newspaper man whose name he could not recall, to keep it informed regarding governmental activities in which it is interested, he promised to furnish the representative's name later. He denied that this firm had received any communication from its Washington representative, indicating a possibility of a search for other leaks.

Mr. Whipple requested him to look through his files for previous communications from the firm's Washington representative, indicating a possibility of a search for other leaks.

Marketing Bank of New York, July 1, 1892.

Fisk said that it was his judgment that the market prior to the publication of the President's note was in an overbought condition, and ready for a violent drop. All it wanted was an excuse. "I never," he declared, "talked of, or imagined a pool for stock-market speculation with McAdoo or any other government official."  Our business is not stock gambling." In closing his testimony, Fisk said, "The still thought T. Lawson's statement - probably was the result of a "disordered brain," and severely criticized him for dragging the name of Harvey Fisk & Sons into the inquiry. 