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Show HARRIDAN TO GO ON STAND Second Hearing of Pacific Roads Management Will Have to Do With Their Financial ControL t NEW YORK, Feb. 23. E. B. Kellogg Kel-logg and C. A. Severance of St. Paul, special counsel to the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission, in its investigation of the Harriman railroad interests, held a long conference in the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday preparatory to the second sec-ond hearing of the commission, here, relative to these railroads. This hearing hear-ing will be Monday. Neither lawyer would impart any information about the conference. It is reported, however, that the commission com-mission and its counsel consider that the subject of traffic competition has been adequately probed at the other hearings and that the forthcoming in-quiry in-quiry will deal mostly with the financial operations of Harriman and his associates, asso-ciates, bearing on the Union Pacific road.- Harriman himself will be examined exam-ined and it became known yesterday that C. W. Hilliard, comptroller of the Chicago A Alton road, has been subpoenaed sub-poenaed to testify before the commission. commis-sion. This is taken to mean that the alleged al-leged management f the Alton bv'tha Union Pacine.will be gone into. Hilliard Hil-liard ia a former official of the Rock Island road, which it is said, came under un-der the control of the Alton last fall and he became comptroller of the Alton in succession to William Mahl. present comptroller of the Union Pacific. Harriman, Har-riman, Otto H. Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb A Co., Comptroller Mahl and Secretary Millar have consulted frequently this week, it is said, with the object of preparing pre-paring themselves for the . examination j by the commission. . |