Show WAS WISE IN POLITICS BUT CHILD IN BUSINESS Saratoga N Y June Tune 23 Although Charles F Brooker of Ansonia Conn Conti Conna I II a I member m of the Republican national committee wa was a director r of th Trust company of the Republic and a mem member her ber of ito Its executive committee during the period in 1902 1 in which It U was en engaged engaged in financing the United State States Ship Building company compan he ht has lias no I knowledge e of the loans made to various arlous persons per ons in which ship shipbuilding shipbuilding shipbuilding building securities acted as a collateral He testified to this effect today in the suit of Charles Charle H Kavnaugh against the of the trust company to w compel an accounting and restoration of at moneys alleged to have hae been hen lost in inthe inthe inthe the ship building company transaction tion Although he vas present ur at a meeting of at the executive committee tEe on ott July 22 after various loans had I teen Iten ten made to John W Young Youn Lew LewIt In Nixon and others Interested in la promoting the tIle ship building company he hl iId U 1 not know that loose loans ha hal l been made Mr lr Brooker said that at the October meet inert meeting ing he learned first fint that sums running into the millions had bad been advanced a an to the ship building concern and that the truet trust company had guaranteed toa made matte by other oUter institutions In to Nixon and Dresser eer amounting to l jf which were used in promoting the lh ship build bull building bullIn buildIng ing In project |