The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-02
HAWLEY'S PROFITS |. WERE ENORMOUS Woman Said to be Partner In
 SuIIy Pools EXAMINATION IN PROGRESS Effort Made to Determine Definitely Who Were sullys Partners-Haw-
 ley Willing to Answer
 All Questions.
EXAMINATION IN PROGRESS

New York, April 1.-The examination in which Edwin Hawley the president cf the Iowa Central railroad and the Min aeapolis and St. Louis railroad, and Frank Ray, head of several large tobacco com panies. the alleged partners of Andrew sully in his cotton operations, are to be questioned, began today before United States Commissioner Alexander. To ascer- tain fully whether or not Hawley and Ray were practically sullys partners is the object of the examination, and Com missioner Alexander was appointed by Judge Holt to act as a special examiner in the case.
 Receivers Henry Taft and David II. Miller procured the order from Judge Holt of the United States district court requir- Ing Hawley and Ray not only to appear today before the special examiner, but to take to the examination room all their books and papers that. would disclose ex- actly what were their relations to MT. Sully. Former Secretary of War Elihu Root was retained to question MT. Hawley and MT. Ray.
 At the opening of the examination Com missioner Alexander ruled that the ex- animation would not partake of a 'liti- gated proceeding" Mr. Hawley was then called and his examination was begun by MT. Root Just at this time MT. Sully en- tered the room and took seat near the lawyers table.
 Is Railroad Officer.
 MT. Hawley gave his occupation as that of railroad officer, and on further ques- tioning stated that he is now president of the Iowa Central and Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads, and partner in the stock exchange firm of Hawley & Davis. He testified his business relations with Sully & Co. began in December last and ended on March 1S
 MT. Hawley's testimony did not pro- ceed very far before his counsel, MT. Davies, took exception to MT. Roots line of examination MT. Davies declared, however, that his client had nothing to conceal and would answer all questions touching on his relations with Sully & Co., or with Mr Sully personally. Mir. Hawley said he kept no special record of his cotton operations, relying chief ly on the statements he received from Sully & Co. following a purchase or sale
 At the request of MT. Root. Hawley g lawyers produced a batch of these state ments. They showed that on December 3, 1905 10000 bales of cotton were bought and sold for account of E. II. Hawley and D. J. Sully jointly. On December 23, loo bales were bought and sold for same account.
 On a Smaller Scale.
 There were also similar transactions on q smaller scale for December "A ano 27 and then came number of state ments of various heavy transactions ir cotton for Hawley's account. MT. Root read from a statement showing that ir one particular transaction Messrs. flaw ley and Sully had divided profit of $90,440.
 MT. Root read from other statements bearing February dates. In these trans actions, purchases or sales ran from a few hundred bales of cotton up to al most 10000 bales. Mir. Root next read from a long slip of paper a statement of cotton transactions bearing the names oi Messrs. Hawley and Sully and. Ray. He wanted to know whether or not if this pa- psr represented the joint transactions of