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Show AUTHENTICITY OF AGREEMENT IS QUESTIONED Counsel for Steel Trust Denies De-nies Knowledge of Ironclad Iron-clad Agreement. APPORTIONED ALL STEEL SHIPMENTS Basis of Steel Pool That Preceded Organization of the Trust . WASHINGTON. July 24. When the house steal trust eommittee resumed Its session today Chairman Stanley pot In tha records a copy of tha Ironclad agreement by which tha Steal Plata Association As-sociation of tha United States waa entered en-tered Into November 9,' 1900. Tha agrsament has been in possession of Chairman Stanley for soma time and a number of wltneeees have been questioned ques-tioned regarding it. Eleven great steel companies entered into tha agreement and apportioned among thsmsalvaa all shipments of steal plates. The steel company that dared violate the agreement laid itself liable to heavy penalties, and it ia aaid that finea of 1000 frequently were imposed oa members mem-bers of the combination when complaints com-plaints were filed with the executive committee. Each firm waa required to make monthly swots statements relating to ahipmanta, rolling production, etc, and any member who had sold more than his apportioned amount was required re-quired to pay a penalty on each pound of such exceea, the money thus collected being apportioned among the members who did not ahip ap to their allotted ahare. Alleged Apportionment Figurea. The agreement showed the following apportionment of shipments allowable by ths various companies party to tbs agreement: Carnegie Steel company, 49. IS per cent; Jones eV Laughliu, limited, 4.79; Illinois Steel company, II; Crucible Steel company of America, 4.80; Otis Steel company, t.SOj Tidewater Steel company, ; Lakens Iron- and Steal company, 7.50; Worth Bros, company, 7; Central Iroa and Steel company, 8; Americas Steel .and Wire company, 5.50; Glaagow Iroa eompaav, to the extent ex-tent of aales and up to "40,000 tons, should they be able to accomplish them, prior to December 81, 1901. Debts of members of ths association were required to be paid by ebeck drawa to the order of T." Mellon A Sons, Pittsburg to tha credit of the asaoeiatioa. The agreement included exemptiOB tonnage provision, aad at the end of each year the commissioner of the association balanced tha pool between be-tween tha members; but sny member unable, to produce his full allotment at the end of the yesr forfeited such unprodueed tonnage, which wa. divided pro rata among other members of tbs pool. Another provision of the agreement required re-quired that "all platee chipped Into the atatee bordering on the Pacific coast and to be actually used la the territory Into which It Is shipped, and also platea actually ac-tually exported for use outelde the limits of the Lnlted States, be reported to a commissioner, together with Mils of lading, or other evidence of. exportation, for actual uee abroad, eatlsfartory to him (said evidence to be confidential aad not to be circulated among membere). Such tonnage was to be deducted from the member e report and the agreed pool lax charged. The agreement also bound tha membere to make ealee between parties to the agreement at pool piioee. To insure rendering of statements and faithful adherence of each party to the terms of the agreement, a guarantee fund of tlixi.eoo was provided by payment of II (KM) on earh per cent of allotment. Eugene c. Bonnlwell of Wayne, Pa., a lawyer and Democratic candidate for congress con-gress Isst autumn, told the ournmlttee today of having seen the sgreement and bow he Induced P. B. Kaufman of l.'oatea-vllle. l.'oatea-vllle. Pa., a publisher who printed a copy of the agreement for the Lukens flteel company In lsoo, to procure a copy of It for the steel committee. Richard Llndabury. counsel for the United Htates Hteel corporation, protested pro-tested against the Introduction of the copy of the Steel Plate association agreement. Agreement Not Signed. Thia la not elgned." eald Undahurv. "There le no evidence that It waa slsned. and the date already given le a year In advance of the formation of the Cnlted Htates Steel corporation." "This has an Important bearing." declared de-clared Chairman Stanley, "hecauae membere mem-bere of the pool were bound to remain membere for two yeare. and. further, because be-cause I have been edvlaed that practically practical-ly the same memoranda were In the steel and wire agreement which resulted In recent re-cent Indlctmenta." Republican member demandM to know If the chairman had attempted to get the original agreement. He sold he had. Counsel l.iodalHiry eald that the aecre-tary aecre-tary of the l nlted Htatee Steel corporation corpora-tion wae subpoenaed Saturday to produce the original copy of the aareement. "We nave not got such an agreement In any of our files and cannot produce It end have nothing to do with It." eald Mr. Llndabury. "We deny ell knowledge of It and feel that we ought not to be connected with It In thle record, particularly particu-larly as this Is sn unsuthentlcsted copy and there le nothing here to Indicate Us authenticity." The copy of the agreement waa placed tn tbe report. |