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Show COMMITTEE WILL SUMMON MORGANS MAN Steel Investigators Transfer Trans-fer the Hearing to New YorK City. TO HEAR PERKINS ON . TENNESSEE IRON DEAL Former President Roosevelt Roose-velt Also May Be Called to Testify. NEW TORS. July 27. Oeorg. W. Farklna, former partner of J. F. Morgan Mor-gan ft Co, chairman of th finance committee of the International Harvester Har-vester company and a member of th board of director of th United Bteta Steel corporation. Is to b summoned beforo the steal trust commltte of Inquiry In-quiry of th house of representative now In (oaston her. This was determined deter-mined on at an ncecutlve meeting of th committee, which ha transferred it field of activity from Washington. Just how soon Mr. Parkin will be called ha not been determined. Tomorrow the committee expect to renew it probing into the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and. Iron company com-pany by th United 8tate Steel corporation cor-poration during th financial panie of 1901. Mr. Perkina will be asked what he know about events leading up to that transaction and there are many other banker, broker and steel corporation cor-poration men in New Tork who were interested ia threatening event of that time who are to be summoned. May Call Teddy. Former .President Roosevelt, to whom Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United State Steel corporation, cor-poration, and Henry C. Frick appealed when the deal to take over the Tennessee Ten-nessee company and its vast resources ' was planned, may be a witness. .Representative A. C. Stanley of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, chairman of the committee, would not commit himself as to ths calling of Mr. Roosevelt. Whpnasked if the former ehrrT" execuTSv "would sppear before the committee, th chairmen chair-men raised his eyes toward the ceiling sod saidt 'I have not ret thorooghly digested that-subject. ' The Tennessee Coal and Iron company transactions, however, are to be thoroughly investigated." Score of witnesses have been subpoenaed subpoe-naed to testify her, and today Rk-hard Trimble, secretary of the ateel corporation, corpora-tion, was called to divulge much Information Informa-tion which the committee had been promised prom-ised from time to time during It protracted pro-tracted Investigation at Washington. This Includes official and statistical documents bearing on prloea and minutes of th steel corporation board meeting. To Prob Tsnnssses Absorption. The Inquiry here Is to be directed almost al-most Immediately Into th absorption of tha Tennessee Coal and Iron company by th United Htates Steel corporation. John W. Gates told th first story of th transaction. trans-action. Judge Klbert H. Gary, executive head of the ateel corporation, related his version of the deal and corroborative testimony tes-timony of one or the other of these eminent emi-nent steel men Is desired by the committee. commit-tee. J . C. Hanna of Cleveland and Orant B. Schley of New York, who were members of tha Tenneasee Coal and Iron syndicate before tha absorption, will be among th witnesses. When the committee convened on motion mo-tion of Representative Littleton It was determined to go Into executive evasion. Plans for the hearings here had not been completed and paper and documents for the examination of wltneaaea had not arrived ar-rived from Washington. Chairman Stanley announced that after this plan had been agreed unanimously that no witnesses would be examined today, to-day, the hearing" to begin tomorrow. Richard I J ns hurry, counsel for the United Hta tea fiteel corpotion. who haa followed the Inquiry from the beginning, was Imrrved I ately not I fled of the post -ponement. Mr. Trimble, secretary of the corporation, who had been subpoenaed for today, probably will be the first witness tomorrow. |