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Show MORGAN BOOKS TO BE EXAMINED I Interstate Commerce Commission Commis-sion Also Orders Inspection of Financier's Papers. FOUR WITNESSES ILL Hearings Fostponed Until June Special Examiners to Prepare Expert Report. Washington. l C. May 26. Fur ther testimony before the Interstate! commerce commission on financial al fairs of the New Haven railroad com-pan) com-pan) was postponed today until Wed nesday. June t, to permn especial examiners ex-aminers tn Inspect the books of I P. j Morgan & Co. and personal papers of the late .1. Plerpont Morgan Four Important witnesses whose testimony is desired, still are too sick to appear. Samuel C Morehouse, George MacCuIloch Miller Dp Yere Warner and Morton F. Plant today sent physicians certificates to the commission to show that they were too ill to be examined on the witness stand The delay coming closely on yes i terday s conference between President Presi-dent Wilson and Utoiney General Mc-Reynolds Mc-Reynolds and persistent reports that the investigation would probably be halted, caused a, great deal of specula tion. but there was nothing offb ial to bear out the view that the conference confer-ence of yesterday was responsible for today's development Wants to Deny Testimony. Lewis Bass Ledyard made a statement state-ment saying he wanted to deny much of the testimony of Mr Mellcn and protesting against the hearing being closed without his testimony being taken. He read a letter of May 23 to Commissionerer McChord, in which he said: "The testimony of Mr Mellcn Is at variance with my recollection In a number of particulars, and I think a r partial and inaccurate Impres-j slon of the affairs of the company would be given, unless other witness I having knowledge of the matters under inquiry, are afforded an opportunity op-portunity to testify. Mr Ledyard was handed a reply to his letter, written by Mr McChord, under today's date, saying iu part: McChord's Letter. It i? quite true you were served with a subpoena some weeks ago and the intention was .it that time to place you on the stand. Since then, however, developments have been such that the commission lias deemed it advisable to withdraw the subpeena heretofore served on you, and you may take this letter as cancellation can-cellation of the subpoena Should you ocsire to appear voluntarily, waiving all immunity by the testimony testi-mony you may give, you may so advise ad-vise the commission and the question ques-tion of your being a witness will then be determined." Mr Ledyard, after reading the letter, let-ter, announced he "would accept the suggestion that he bo a voluntary witness He asked that he be noti-1 fied when he could testify. Examiner David Brown told of ef I forts he had made yesterday to see William Rockefeller in New York He! was informed both at Mr Rockefeller's Rockefel-ler's office and home that he had been away several weeks 1 r |
