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Show .OPERATORS DEFEND PATTEN. I Say Ha Did Not Corner Wheat, But I Performed Beneficent Action. I Wnshlngton. Whim Jumea A. Put- 1 ten operated In May wheat In luoo he el did nul conduol a corn. C) In w heat, t V several prominent grain nperutoi! ' M told the house committee '"on ngrlcul- 1 lure on Monday, I Instead of cornering wheat and I holding out for enormoua -profits, Mr, I Fallen performed a "beneficent ac- J tlon," according to John C. F. Mer j rill, president nf lha Council of Uruln Kxchangca. who acted aa epokasmnii for the Chicago board of trade nnd other wheal and corn exchanges. |