Show GET GOAL COAL rn A i STOCKS o WITHOUT MONEY Pennsylvania Railroad Officials Testify Concerning Their M Methods HUFF V WAS AS CHIEF PROMOTER Congressman Prom From Vale nc 1 in Adept A at nt Stock Floating I Pi- Pi Ignored n Railroad Philadelphia May 23 The The 3 The state state- mont nent that tho the Pennsylvania Railroad company Intends to Imo the Ito manner In lit which some fomo of oC Its 11 chief assistants and executive e secured ed eti po possession of or their large holding of oC coal company stocks and that President Ca Cassatt t me may come back from Crom Europe to help In such an In Investigation In- In was tho ho chief of oC man mail many incidents In- In of great Importance t to the general genell public that thal followed the I re resumption re- re by y tho the interstate commerce commission toda today of or the lie Inquiry Into the charges of oC In fa favor Ca- Ca aol a- a vor ol VOl of oC c certain coal companies b by the coal coni carrying railroads Three wit witnesses wl- wl wi- wi nesses were ere examined today all al of or them being men n who vho are arc among tho the lJ best known In iii tho lie railway world They were svere John Jollit P P. Gr Green n first frt vice Ice president president dent of ot tho the Pennsylvania Samuel Rca Rea third vice president and Willlam Wi- Wi Will Will- lam Iam A A. A Paten Patton Patten a assistant to President Cassatt and arid himself president of the lie Philadelphia Norfolk railroad MI Mr Rea itea who Is IR a hea heavy owner net of coal company tock stock under the sharp SharI questioning of uC Attorney Glasgow anti and members of tho lie committee admitted admitted admit admit- admi- admi ted he did not think It quite the Ito proper prop PrOP- roper rop- rop er or thing for railroad to be bo actively engaged In tho the promotion of mining companies Green GIn Defends S Captain Green Grcen however points to the tho fact that hint an act of the lie Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania legislature authorizes railroad officials to own and anc speculate in coal company stock stoe and he generally defended defended de- de tP P fended the system which he d i t ben boen In existence ever l' tho ad adion ul- ul ad ministration ion of ur j JI dg rt Chief Chlor Inter Interest l C centre l In In the tite 1 ol b h QI who 1 n r fo I VI ciO r l s viii ocl ost hl n 19 tJ Y n.- n. C or locI OO h 1 ghi t. t o opt t tot h 11 i ts l 4 Jh 1114 him 1 r I rog I 1 fl h J m r 0 lon vi l 1 o I I 1 o hod e n t to h 1 hr h U ph J 1 w to lo j buy bUi coal f l lud s Incorporate well li T ce tf distribute tho the stock to k tho r J rt Ills Ils lW vUi- vUi a distinct t revelation lc ln In th the of or tock stock HII pursued by the tilt Pennsylvania anlu financiers t t Stood to I I In Iii explanation over how howe cl of or he the fact act that he apparently got Sot something for ot or nothing he ito declared to the lie don slon that he ite stood financially re rc- rc for tot the he oblations of o the lie the companies In which he lie was Interested with wih others othor and had stood Wil to lo loe c if IC tho they were not successfully Captain Green who Co followed I o Patt Pat Pat- at- at t ten sought to sought excuse the lie stock owne own own- I e b by on the tue ground that such things have ha been encouraged IJ by I the Pennsylvania management anti and anyhow it H was not not against the he law Ho He did not want van the the public to J get t Improper tho the Impression that lint it I was aA Illegal or 01 Rea Hel Was fl us T Tearful Mr Mi 1 flea Rea explained his connection wih with sIli th tho o of a number of favored companies companies which netted him him stock tot for which he ho paid nothing In lii II actual cash cah lie Ic 10 charged t the news news- papers papel's with making sentiment against tho lie com company pan and anil almost 1 tearfully de tIe- that ho lie did dil not have havo to have el stock t ck given him Like other othel witnesses Mr Ir Rea Hen blou brought ht in lii the name of oC Colonel Goo Gee F F. Huff congressman from mm Westmoreland West Sost t- t moreland county as the chief promoter promo promo- 1 er ci t of oC companies In iii tho ito Interest of ot the Pennsylvania Colonel Huff Hur who has been asked to appear at tho thu hearings has excused himself on the ground that his con congressional duties dutes compel his presence In Washington I Tho The Pennsylvania directors met to today today to- to day anti and appointed a n committee of seven to investigate the condition as a expo exposed ld by tho the commission lon |