Show railroad committees investigation morgan closely Quiz P THE OLD MAN TELLS HIS SIDE he says sutro is fighting ahm because he could not bulldoze him washington feb 18 the hearing on abo refunding ot the pacific railroads debt by the senate committee on pacific roads continued today senator morgan continued his enquiries concerning the destruction of the papers of tho finance and contract the company examination resulting in knarp passages between morgan and huntington morgan intimated he believed the papers were burned for the purpose of destroying the proof of the individual liability of stockholders huntington insisted they had been destroyed in cleaning out the room because the business for which the corn pany had been organized was closed he said he suggested to mark hopkins that tha books bo destroyed but did not remember that there had been any reference in his conversation with hopkins to a clause in the california constitution regarding the personal liability of stockholders such a matter would he eaid have been referred to the legal department part ment 0 the road senator morgan did any lawyer ad viso you to destroy these papers huntington I 1 think not it was a mere casual matter we did not regard it serious morgan it becomes serious liere I 1 like very much to haie the books here now Hungt ington I 1 should like very much or you to have them but in view of the tact that they are not in existence istance ex I 1 dont see how in the world you are going to get them reference being made to alio california memorial eaid it emanated from the sutro meeting but he declared he was not halt as earnest as was sutro when lie sutro told him that he would fight him if he did not build a road out to his butros Su place he had a saloon and gambling ife said cheso people who were fighting him in california were about as uncanny a crowd as a farmer ever found in his hen roost the examination was turned into an inquiry as to the payment of the contract and finance company in tho construction st of the central pacific and of the organization and operation of the wistern development co and P improvement co composed largely of central pacific men engaged in building other roads in california at one time during this branch of alie enquiry morgan sought to confine replies to definite lines frye interfered to say tho witness should bo allowed to answer in his own way 1 I want him to answer replied morgan that is what I 1 am trying to get him to do but I 1 am going to conduct this examination exactly to my taste until the committee stopa me tho questioning in this connection developed that the central pacific organizers gani had built three other roads in california connected with the central pacific and bought about twelve which failed said the roads built st about per mile the construction company had been paid with bonds which were issued by the central pacific co prefer to walt paris feb 18 MB premier has informed the members of the lett that the government does not desire to again raise the question of confidence in the chamber of deputies thursday preferring to wait tor further action ot tho senate |