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Show WILL PROSE THE RATEJUESTION Senate Committee to Begin Inquiry. Officials of Leading Roads Requested to Give Testimony. Only Three Signify Willingness to Attend Hearing Will Go Into Subject Thoroughly. WASHINGTON. April 16-Folhm ing Is a list of the railroad men who liavo been requwted to apre.ir before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Com-merce, which will begin Itf Inquiry Into railroad regulation next Monday: W K. Yunderbllt of the New York Central. Cen-tral. George Gould of the Gould system sys-tem K. H Ha prima n of the I nlon Pacific, Pa-cific, J. J. Hill of the Great Northern. A J Cassait of the Pennsylvania. E. D. Kenna, vice-president of the Atchison, Atchi-son, Topcka & Santa Fe; Walker D. Hinc-8. general counsel of the Louisville Louis-ville & Nashville. H tilth L. Bond, general gen-eral counsel of the Baltimore & Ohio. Wlnsl0V Pierce, general counsel of the the Chicago A Northwestern; President Ulpley -.f th.- At.-hlMin. Tnpka Sant;t Fe 1 i.l. 1.1 Tuttle of the Boston Bos-ton A Ufa Inn Vl.o.Pr.-.cl.lni.i ivii. .v the Deleware & Hudson President I'l'U. s.l:jV. ,.f , I,.. 1 i, l.i v.., -r , I.ark.i- wanna & Western, President Spencer of tlx- Southern Pcifi, . President Fih Of the Illinois ( 'entral. Only Three Respond. Of these only Messrs Cassatt, Fish and Tuttle have signified .i willingness to attend and they say they will not be able to be presetit at the beginning or the committee's sitting A number of other witnesses have been summoned, however, and it Is expected that the committee will be able to proceed soon after coming together Among the non-railroad men to be heard are Senators Sen-ators Bpooner, Knox and Morgan; Prof. w . Ripley of Harvard and vi, tor Uorawetz, the eminent corporation attorney at-torney of New York Questions to Be Considered The committee has been summoned to meet at 3 p m. Mondnv. nnd Chairman Chair-man Kikins ol the committee had announced an-nounced his purpose 10 rh vt ihor-oughly ihor-oughly Into the subject. Tne resolution resolu-tion under which the hearing will he held directs the committee "To consider con-sider the question of additional lepisi.i- llon to regulate Interstate commerce nnd to authorize the interstate Commerce Com-merce commission to fix r.-itc- of trr-iRlits and fares and to acquire further fur-ther Information as to interstate commerce, com-merce, Including violations or evasions of the anti-rebate law and th.-and th.-and methods by which Buch evasions are accomplished and Including refrigerator refrig-erator and other private car systems industrial rallwaj tracks, switching charges and the like. I)n.i also i consider con-sider what eKidHiion should be enacted en-acted In relation to the abllltv of railroad rail-road companies engaged In Interstate traffic, or operating lines in anj territory terri-tory Of the I'nlled States for injuries received by their employees when In I he discharge of dutv." |