The evening world., 1907-01-04
Unableto Attend Meeting
of interstate Conn
merce Commission.
HAS HAD AN OPERATION.
Counsel, Says Testimony Can
Be Taken at Home, but
eatf1lisss8 8tiefs Refuse.

tween ,aA -Pacl4o Railroads md thalr
subsidiary. linr4 was that e. h Harri
man aaa too III TO respond TO the sub
pocna which s,inmoned HIM as Wit
y mesa MT. Hartman lately fhad to un.
derge minor operation; and thisS,saa "a
explained when the, Commission met ID
the Federal Building.
Chairman Martin A. Knapp apd Com
= n,Issicncrs Franklin L Lane and james
g. Harlan lre assisted by Frank b.
- Kellogg and c. A Severance. me 81
I,.rsf lawyers. yy.,o tIsrru Sgrr rVta:Hud
by the Government and who have been
busy with tho TT. z. records for u
week.
"a list OF the riameHH OF the wi.nesscs
who shGyn bee ssabposnaed TO appear mt
the tnyestlgat.nn rad Ike =. y 70 roll OF
i5S the grraE railroad hssfifes =ef tfIH land.
W v: IS zThofns. RoBert w Goelet'
d o. sfIilss Ogden Mills. David VILE
cox, Jiinssa stiiInan. Henry W, dc
Forest. Jacob II. schifr. &, II. Jenery,
A. L. Mohler. General Manager of the
Union PacIno;J. c. stpbbs. Tho trnihc
director; William Mail. Comptroller:
Alexander Miller. Secretary; and Julius
Er1ittschnitt,- ere some OF the biggest
Z. names on the probers list.
IL IaHt=befors the time set for the honr-
v Ink tho venue of tho proceedings wns
s ciIanEet from room II to room -tss' &C.
- = where the three iasegtigators took their
.aeats beneath large picture OF
a Samyol Bl1tchford
z Hartman Is III. I
ks aoont as the Commission was call
= IA To order Lawyer MilhurI announced
: that Mr.. Hartman was unable TO At
taAsd as. n ssitneax
iMr Hartman is not. wo regret to
z saa, In 4. condition that hts. can ienvu
+ fiat house, said Mr.. Mliburn. He
Ia Nor disabled from ttstIfy1Hs. II tE
sim4ly disability OF kind which
nakAi not only imprudent. but
practhealiy out OF the question for him
20 leaTo MA ca mouse. As far as
ran a,atggssts with all due and proper
res@ra 10 me otsnaty o. She Somhi'sH
sio5l. = Wou.a say .n,t Mr, iii.r .ilu.'
y
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Z y aolo 70 slYe : .neie n..a aAaer
aluans OF 1uhl ~ in'isi - = -
Wonio oe sissN Haio
Waiie Gan appreciate on'eeu 10
mat. none the less ieel ~ pDap.f 70
+ sag. say. that no can s.se ,ss, ms 'esptnony now
Wns 70 20 20. ans, anu no resre.a hltn-
seit personally very nneh that nc can can
not be present In this building to-day.
An IL lllpo rtlnt witness =.
4 NOW. that is the situation so far ss
Mr.. Hartman Is concerned. or course.
fsatsi.sfais. must ;isteasEfi.Y DO al,
~ IaLa5rtart witnRsg I'M this Ri birc.T
i 'tHe has been connected with The vari-
ona matters TO which Inc inquiries Will
Il be. directed There is no doubt thai he
b is5a man who can furnish the fullest
and most connented Information on
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shoaia -ps postpoHehent ua'
branch ei the nsaiter Tor some uafa.
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4 prtynt,. fi.lIct fos SIR Hartman OF any
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