Show t f CASSATT HOLDS t I. I f NO 1 COAL GOAL STOCK l' l L i i President of Pennsylvania iS S. Railroad Answers Questions Ques Ques- f of Committee NOT t. t NEEDED AS WITNESS Publication of I Ills His I Is Statement Probably ably 1 ill Make lul e It Unnecessary iOu For 01 Mr 11 to r Testify Philadelphia June 10 The Tue The answer t- t ot or Pr President Alexander J. J Cassatt of or rj railroad to the tho ques- ques asked of Or all and L ij the tho railroads railroad's investigation com com- a.- a. in the circular letters issued last Friday Frida was wa made public tonight Although thousands of ot officials and employee of ot the great lent Pennsylvania system have received copies of tho the circular circular cir cir- I cular President Cassatt Ca att Is the first to S. S send In his detailed report to the quest ques- ques t ions Of r the railroad I. i C C. Stuart Patterson chairman of or the Pennsylvania Ia I Inv Investigating I rig committee commit commit- rf tee made public his answers vers with th the 4 approval of oC the president In a brief brIe 41 statement Mr rr hr Cassatt denies holdIng holding hold boUt ing lug any att stock tock of oC all any coal oal company whose whoso mines minos 9 are arc located on on or ot whose r. r coal Is shipped over the tho Pennsylvania f railroad I He lie denies also the rumors started w h by the Insistence of oC the Iho Interstate 1 commerce commissions commission's probe that he heIs Is interested In the of oC Cassatt 11 i Co or 01 holds hohls stock In the K Keystone stono Coal Coke company compan ri White Coal Mining company an and the Henrietta Coal com company pan President r J Cassatt says that hat his only coa coa holdIngs holdings hold hold- j ings In his career career namely namely shares i of the Millwood Coal Coke con company bought hought b by him as far fm back as 1872 2 1 r were disposed of ot last December f t Never Xen I leeched Heech Bonus ye- ye Ills reply to the direct question as asto d In Indirectly In- In to whether he has directly or 01 r rf directly e received from an any corporation corpora corpora- tion lion aM association or 01 individual doln doing work for or furnishing furnishing- material to the thet t I Pennsylvania anla railroad any commission commis commis- I iOn sion gift or bonus honus of an any n nature Is characteristic of the chief executive of the lonn Pennsylvania system His reply to this interrogation Is d v Never during the period named or 01 at nt any other time lime I While denying ing absolutely that ho Ito ra holds an any auty coal Interests President C. C Ca Cast alt alt tInes dots admit holding stock to the value of about halt half a million In the ther r I 1 Union Switch Signal company the thc J United States Slates Metallic Packing company com corn finny pany the Pennsylvania Steel and the Cambria company t f 1 Ber Stock t With ith regard to the s goal Coal com company pan which concern has hns conspicuously In the hearings p 9 t r the Interstate c on Pl President l nt mys aj's ht purt purChased pur- pur t chased Fn lit 1885 shares of BerwInd Ber- Ber 2 wind stock at a time when the organization organization organ organ- was undergoing reorganization Ho He adds odds however that he ho never held this sto stock k either during dU his former connection with the Pennsylvania railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road which terminated with his re resignation resignation lg- lg nation o of the tho vice presidency In the fall fail of ISS or since he became S lent dent of oC the company compan In IS 1899 He lIe dl dig dig- posed of or this holding In hut IS 1891 In explaining his acquirement of or the Berwind tl stock Mr Ir Cassatt sa says s 's Will vili Not Go Co on ott Stand You will observe that it was purchased pui pur- chased four years after I 1 ceased to lo be beI bean bean I an officer of tho the company and was r sold eight years before e I was elected to the tho presidency I l I never novel had any interest In iii the partnership of or Der- Der Dero o wind White Co It lt Is a 3 foregone conclusion now now I that hat President Cal will not take tale the witness I ne stand before the interstate commerce commission It Is be he- he that he has hns successfully evaded such uch a n. move by lW the transmission of I hl his answer to the tho public The Tho very vely points upon which President Cassatt would have havo ben been subjected to cross- cross examination have ha been covered in iii his Government officials In l. l Philadelphia tonight ht admit that by b ep mal making public his answerS answer President t a has successfully frustrated an any attempt that may be he made malo by 13 lh the V interstate commerce commission lon to 2 put him him on the witness s stand |