Show NOT BIG TO HUT i Ten Million Not Worth Remembering Remember-ing by Sir Jlorgan New York March 2GT Plcrpont Morgan was a witness today before Special Examiner Mabey In tho suit of Peter Power against the Northern Pacific Railroad company to test the legality of the turning over of control of that company to the Northern Securities Se-curities company Mr Morgan was questioned by George Alfred Lamb of counsel for Power A number of photographers pho-tographers who were present with a view to securing portraits of Mr Morgan Mor-gan were forced to leave the room at the request of the witness Mr Morgan said It was thobusiness of the firm ot J P Morgan t Cov to take up anything In a financial line that was creditable and which might suggest Itself as profitable The firm had rWach to do with tho reorganization of the Northern Paclllc In 1S9C The amount Involved In that reorganization was something like 78000000 Mr Morgan later testified that ho hid mado a largo sale of Northern Pacific Pa-cific stock to JJ Hill How much was It asked Mr T n h I cannot remember Somebody has testified hero that It was 110000000 worth 1 Well that may be This seems rather a large transaction transac-tion Can you not tell us something about the negotiations J 7 asked Mr Lamb A ten million purchase of stock does not seem a very big transaction to me I have forgotten the details said Mr Morgan Hill and I worked together I Ill work with him nny time If It had I been different Ill tell you an Instance of what I could have done Say that I had bought the Union Pacific interests In the Great Northern what would 11111 have done then |