The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
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A. The one conferences Fifst VIes-Pfsats
don't urern. secomi Vicss President pt14he
who's department Ia the operating Oasl
In whlch Il tho main faint ~ graft, Fourth
vlca-preuidrnt Thaver, Who hes - faf
been chief a~tologis' for the road. and Third
v s-Presislent Hea. whose name nenFsd
In yesterdays testimony. WIRE all Ia earuest
converse Vish ths men ~ law
Before ,his big counsel u chiefs a. inter-
walls filtered many Of those lesser oficlnIe
who had appeared before the commission
and had confessed 10 receiving stock and
gifts William A. Patton. chief assistants
20 President Cassltt IN Philadelphia, who
has long been mentioned secretly ~ one %
the holders Of stock In favored coal COM
panies. was an anxious participant.
One order went out during the day 40
fruit Of the big pow-wow. This was 20 all
Official h who haven't been s~ubppnaed BY
the commission and commands them %
furnish the legal department Of the Penn
s~ylvania az once a full HIST OF their mine
ownings. how they wers acquired and
much other data.
II IL admitted by the Pennsylvania people
that the last onslaught Of the commission
ooh them completely by surprise and they
do not propose TO be again 80 taken II 10
Is possible to avoid IL. Their action, how.
ever, lie regarded as locking the stable door
after the horses are stolen.
How much does Glasgow know 10 the
question all are asking. There Ii no doubt
that the coal operators filed the commits
sion's lawyer up TO the brim with ammuni-
ton. 1t was through their promptings
that Glasgow was enabled to drag from
reluctant witnesses the story Of gifts"
from the copcerns dependent upon them
for cars.
When the commission comes to town on
Wednesday it's fire will be directed entirely
upon Chief Assistant Patton and Pittsburg
Assistant Robert Pitcairn. 1t is limited that
they are masks for others still higher up.
At Fridays session there we're many sig
nifcant hints at big stock holdings under
fictitious names in favored 90 mpanies,
notably the keystone Coal and Coke Com
pany and the Berwind- White Company.
Just how Patton and Pitcairn acquired
their holdings and whether they hold tho
blocks for themselves or for others still
higher up will be two lines Of inquiry.
A strenuous effort will be made by the
railroad counsel to block all efforts OF Glas-
gov to break through Pitcairn and Patton
to reach the others. The question OF just
how much Glasgow knows is the puzzler.
Scores of civil prosecutions by coal oper-
ators are threatened against the railroad
az a result of the revelations Of favoritism
and rebates, There is a feeling among them
that the bars are down.
1t was said that Vice-President Green's
statement yesterday, voicing the panied
surprise OF the railroad upon the graft dis
closures, Ia the first step of a grandstand
play in which, after an invest cation by q
committee Of the company, some Of the
offending employees Of the corporation
VIII NC ulsNlldi Bcd' NV "as IuNcit up ~
the conference to-day, but is said TO have
been dismissed for two considerations:
first, that if the investigation is carried on
to its logical CONCLUSION, that is the dis
.missal of all whose hands are stained
with graft, it might seriously interfere
with the operation OF certain divisions Of
the road; and second, that dismissals would
probably lead 10 too many disclosures on
the part of the scapegoats, This plan, at
least for the present, has been laid upon the
table. 9r
The tenor OF all Cassatt's Anessages, Il
was said. was stand pat"
There was the usual crop of sensational
rumors to-day. Among them was one that
President Cassatt had cabled that he would
be back home to take charge Of things on
the next boat. This had n lot Of believers.
Another was that Nice-President Thayer
had insisted upon Assistant Patterns resig-
nation. This found few believers indeed.
One fact was, however, very patent-the
Pennsylvania is further vi in the air and
more anxious than ever before in It's history.