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Show SECRET REPORT IS TO BE KEPT SECRET NEW YORK. Jan. 13. When the rase of Marcus Braun, special commissioner to Austro-Hungary to. Investigate Immigration Im-migration conditions, ' against . Lajos Steiner of this city, whose arrest Mr. Braun had secured on a charge of criminal crim-inal libel on December 6, came up In Police court yesterday. It wag-.devoted chiefly to attempts on the part of the attorneys for the defense to force Braun to reveal the nature of his work abroad as representative of the Immigration Immi-gration bureau and of the secret report he has made- to President Roosevelt concerning his investigations In Austro-Hungary. Austro-Hungary. These questions Braun absolutely ab-solutely refused to answer. He exhibited a telegram In the courtroom court-room from Secretary Metcalf, In which the latter assured him fhat under no circumstances would the contents of the secret report be made public, even at the demand of Congress, which had called upon Secretary Wetcalfs department depart-ment for the report. |