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Show JOSEPH F. SMITH TO IPPEKIIESS Head of Mormon Church Will Be Summoned to Washrngton lyy House Committee. SUGAR TRUST TO BE PROBED Some Exceedingly Embarrassing Questions to Be Answered Under Oath. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, .Tune 9. Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, will be summoned by the house committee commit-tee Investigating the American Sugar Refining company to tell what, he knows of th dealings of the so-called sugar truat with. The. o.cet. sugar interests controlled con-trolled by tlio cliurch. Subpoenas will be Issued for leading beet sugar men in tlm west. Chairman Ilaidwlck of tho committee said the committee com-mittee will begin public hearings Monday with the testimony of the eastern sugar men, and that President Smith and other western men will not bo heard until the oastern men have tinlshed. While the committee will keep secret the names of those It lias subpoenaed until after the papers havu been served, It can be staled authoritatively that within with-in a. few days some of I he highest, ofil-clals ofil-clals of the American Sugar Refining company and other sugar llrms will be directed to come to Washington and an-swor an-swor under oath some exceedingly embarrassing em-barrassing questions. Among them will be Horace llavemey-er, llavemey-er, Washington B. Thomas. Arthur Don-ner, Don-ner, George JI. Frazler. Henry E. Neisc, Monry C. Mott, Samuel C. Hooker, Samuel Sam-uel Carr. Edwin S. Mnrston, Edwin F. Atkins. Charles H. Allen, Joseph E. I'rce-man. I'rce-man. William W. Fr.17.lcr. William W. Harrison, John D. Spreckels. John D. Sprockets, Jr.. James II. Post. Frederick Mollenhaucr aud J. Henry Dick. Because the federal government is now prosecuting the American Sugar Refining company and a dozen or more companies that arc connected with It In the United Suites circuit court for the southern district dis-trict of New York tho Hard wick committee, commit-tee, as a matter of courtesy to Attorney General WIckershant, is endeavoring to ascertain' whether the work of the committee com-mittee will have any effect on the government's gov-ernment's case. It is no secret, however, that a majority of I ho committee in fact, all of the Democrats arc convinced that no sugar trust official can legally claim Immunity from civil or criminal prosecution prosecu-tion under tlio Sherman anti-trust law by reason of anything ho may say beforo the committee, |