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Show Ordered to Produce Papers. Washington, May 22. A vigorous effort is to be made by the interstate Commerce commission to compel President Baer of the Reading Coal and Iron company and the Reading railway and officials of other anthracite coal-carrying roads to answer certain questions and produce certain documents doc-uments which they refused at the recent hearing before the commission in New York. , The - particular documents, the originals of which are demanded by the commission, are alleged contract among the coal-carrying roaila limiting the production pro-duction of coal. After considering the refusal re-fusal of the officials to present the contracts con-tracts to the Interstate Commerce commission, com-mission, the members of the commission requested Atty.-Gen. Knox to direct Gen. Burnett, district attorney for the Southern South-ern district of New York, to present the case to the United States Circuit court and ask for an order to compel the officials of-ficials of the coal-carrying roads to appear ap-pear before the commission, answer the questions and produce the documents. |