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Show BUSINESSMEN H TOVNSON Bh j J. P. Morgan Discusses G en- Ill !t eral Conditions at White I 11 House With President. f m SERIES OF MEETINGS II fij Henry Ford Next in Line to & I Hear Chief's Exposition of IfiSfy Views of Big Business. j1 fjj Washington, July 2. J. P. Morgan 1 iW: a( an enS3Kement at the White jh ! House today to discuss general busi- f! I ness conditions with President Wil- jj i son. It was the firBt of informal con- III J i ferences the president plans to have Mil j i with Industrial and financial leaders, j within a short time, j Next week the president will have f, an informal conference -with Henry ' J Ford, the Detroit manufacturer, who I jf will be entertained at luncheon at the White House. It was said the HV president had invited Mr. Ford. It Officials clOBe to the president said l Mr WilBon would take such an op portunity to outline his views to the I heads of big business in person. Morgan Vi.lt a Surprise. Mr. Morgan's engagement was more ! or less of a surprise to those who have observed the course the presi-dont presi-dont has taken since he entered the I White House in having conferences I ' with captains of industry It has I been pointed out that Mr. Wilson has I I received the big business men of the jli country less frequently than his pre decessors, in fact, had not been ask-f ask-f SvJt.i' ins their advice at a11 n legislation Km affecting business as many other j v presidents have done. When the cur- DvjA,; rency bill was in passage through flf ) congress the president even declined f IB i t0 receve some members of the Mor , By a series of informal confer- I ences with leaders of industry and I finance, of which those with Mr, Mor- 1 1 gan and Mr. Ford will be the first. j it is the idea to show that the1 p rest - I dent is approaching the subject with J an open mind, willing to hear the l views of big business first hand and : j outline his own views in reutrn. J -i New Haven Suit. Ul U Although there are other subjects 1 j'I'I interesting Mr. Morgan at present, in flii which the government has a part, it 1 was said today's talk was to be a per- 1 J" sonal one on business The interstate IKI commerce committee's report on its IBM inTestigatttpi of financial affnlr oi the New Has en railroad is nearly ready for submission to the senate, and the time is drawing near to July rjt 15. the date which President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds have agreed on filing the anti-trust suit for the dissolution of the New Haven merger, unless the Massachu-FPtts Massachu-FPtts legislature takes certain action ; which is necessary to a dissolution and which has been recommended by the attorney general and Chairman Elliott of the New Haven board. I if Whether those subjects were to en- Hpj ter into todays conference was not |