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Show STEEL HEABIKO BBSTTMED. NEW TORK. Aug. 1 Republican members of the houee ateel truet Investigating Inves-tigating committee were In the majority today when bearings into the affaire of the united Btatee Steei corporation were resumed- Representative 6taa!ey. chairman chair-man of the committee, waa the only Dem-' or ret In attendance, other Democratic membere having been detained In Washington Wash-ington becaues of the caucua on the wool bill and other legl.le.tlon. Charles Page Perrlne, one of the consulting con-sulting enaineere who made a report on the oree of the Alabama, Tennessee and Oeorgla region for the Tcnnoaoec Ooei. Iron and Railway company, the Sleee-Hheffield Sleee-Hheffield Steel and Iron company, the Republic Re-public Iron and Steel oorapany, and later the Tenneeeee Coal end Iron- company syndicate, waa the nret witness. The report re-port on the ore holdings of the region known aa the Birmingham district waa made tn 184 Summed up. the estimate reached waa that the dtetrict contained from 400 to toe million tons of Iron ore and from one to two billion tone of ooei. |