The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-20
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 First FEW HAVE ARRIVED
Chairman of Special Investigating Committee Does Not Fear for Quorum, However-Mr.
 Morgan Summoned

5 Washington, November 19.--Inquiry into the affairs Of the United States Steel corporation will be resumed tomorrow by the special Investigating committee of the House headed by Representative A. O. Stanley of Kentucky.
 The committee has been idle since the latter part of August, but during the interim the chairman and agents of the committee have been preparing a line of inquiry into the alleged ore monopoly ard the transportation domination of the Steel trust in the Lake Superior ore re- zion.
 The transportation question will first be inquired into when the committee re- sumes and officials of the Duluth and Iron Mountain railroad and the Duluth, Mesaba and Northern railroad, the Steel trust road, and independent ore shippers from the lake region have been sum- nloned to testify.
 Few members of the special committee had arrived in Washington today, though Chairman Stanley expressed the assur- ance that a quorum would be on hand. None of the republican members had
 
 reported that interest in further press ing of the House investigation had Jagged since the government had filed suit against the Steel corporation.
 It is learned today that the House in vestigating committee hopes to unearth sufficient additional evidence against the Steel trust to force the Attorney Gen. era to file an amended petition against this giant industrial concern. The demo- cratic investigators claim that the de- partmcnt of justice has already stolen ther thunder in filing the original pe- tition and that the Stanley committee is entitled to credit for the action against the Steel trust.
 When the committee temporarily aban- doned it's inquiry this summer, it was with the understanding that the probe would be resumed in October. Later, owing to political exigencies and the ab- sence abroad of members of the commit tee, it was decided to resume hearing early in November.
 Meanwhile the department of justice filed it's unexpected suit against the Steel trust passing it to a considerable extent upon some of the evidence collected by the House investigators. It is now an- nounced that the House committee pro- poses to proceed independent of the de- rartment of justice and that the probe of the Steel trust will be continued just as though the department had never in- stituted proceedings. against that corpor- ation.
 Two kings of the financial world are to be called to testify before the Stanley committee. They are J. Pier ft,r ri in ba steel corporation, and Andrew Car negie, the man who built up the busi- ness and afterward sold out at enor- nous profit to the Morgan syndicate. Carnegie informed the committee last spring that he would gladly appear be- fore it upon his return to this country from abroad.
 j. Pierpont Morgan is expected to give his testimony more reluctantly than Carnegie, who practically got out of the steel business when the present combine, now in litigation with the gov ernment and alleged to be a combina- tion in restraint of trade, was formed
 The Stanley committee does not an- tcipate that Morgan. Carnegie or oth- CT big witnesses called, will refuse to testify on the ground that the govern ment is proceeding against them and that they should be immune. Such a course, 1t is argued, would not create a favorable impression with the pub lie and the expectation is that the ad- ditional steel magnates heard will malSe show at being as frank as Judge El- bert H. Gary, John w. Gates, Percival Roberts, George ". Perkins and others who have already been heard.
 The committee will resume it's in quiry this month along two definite lines. The part played by Morgan and his banks in the financing of the Steel trust and the fnterlocking system of directors between the Steel trust and some of the biggest railroads in the country In previous hearings the com mitfee has devoted most of its atten- tion to the price of steel, the manner in which prices were alleged to have been fixed at inc "Gary dinners,s and the vast deposits of ore now under control of the trust. M ., -s,la