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ROCKEFELLER
Expert Says He is Unable to
Stand Long Examination
| NE HAS SHAKING PALSY

hE HAS SHAklNb TAlSl
George w. Perkins Goes on Witness
Stand and Tells Of Corporations He
Is Interested In.
Washington. Jan. 16. - The house
money trust" investigating commit
tee, after a secret conference, decided
to send the chairman, Representative
Pujo. and counsel, Samuel Untermyer,
to examine William Rockefeller at any
place he might name.
This decision was reached as re-
suit of the testimony of DR.. Charles
W. Richardson. who told the commit.
tee Rockefeller could stand q short ex-
animation without immediate danger
to his life.
While the Standard Oil mans vocal
cords are in bad shape. the specialist
who examined Mr.. Rockefeller for the
committee said that his voice could be
heard at distance of twenty feet.
DR.. Richardson's opinion was that
Mr.. Rockefeller's examination could
last an hour or two, but he qualified
this by declaring that, were he Mr..
Rockefeller's physician, he would en-
deavor to protect him against such q
strain.
Representative Pujo, chairman OF
the committee, announced that the
committee would decide later whether
to insist on the testimony.
Dr. Richardson said that when he
examined Mr.. Rockefeller at Miami,
Fla, last Sunday, no one else was
present and that he spent an hour with
him. The affidavit presented by DR..
Chappell, Mr.. Rockefeller's physician,
he said, did not fully state the case.
"Mr. Rockefeller's condition is more
serious than would be supposed from
reading DR.. Chappells affidavit" said
the witness.
He added that he found that the
right vocal cord Of the oil magnate
was practically gone and that the left
was badly affected. He said he found
Mr.. Rockefeller's pulse 100 and his
blood pressure 162.
DR.. Richardson learned that Rookie
feller had undergone four operations
since 1905, when the trouble began.
Describing the shaking palsy" from
which Rockefeller suffers, DR.. Richard-
son said:
y I'm order to get a graphic test. ]
asked him to write, I standing behind
him without his knowledge. He wroto
continuously with great effort for two
and one-half minutes, and at the END
OF that time he had transeia -. Z -
eleven words.
DR.. Richardson said this proved n
would be impossible to hold an examf
nation in writing. &
81 believe he could be subjected TO
q short examination orally, without Inn
mediate danger to his life," said Dr.
Richardson. But lengthy examina-
ton would probably weaken his vocal
cord to a point where serious swell
ing of the larynx might be caused or q
hemorrhage might result that would
end in serious consequences"
1SOl6S W. Ol hlu5p loi Lu0A POI thSS
Of J. Pierpont Morgan, was examined
by the committee.
He was still a director and member
of the finance committee of the United
States Steel corporation, he said. AS
a director of the steel corporation and
the International Harvester company
he is defendant in the governments
suit for dissolution of those concerns.
As Untermyer questioned him about
these companies there was much spec
ulation as to whether Perkins answers
would give him immunity from prose-
cution.
Perkins said the corporation bought
its own stock only, so far as he knew.
to be sold to employees under profit
sharing plans.
I'VE never knew Of the corporation
buying its own stock to protect 1t in
the market and know Of no pools to
manipulate the market in steel stock, :"
he said.
do you believe that directors
should be allowed to trade in the
stock of their own corporations on ad-
vance information secured by them
through their connection with the cor
poration?" II do not"
Perkins said he believed all cor
porations should give publicity to all
their affairs.
Perkins favored putting the stock
exchanges under federal control. II
feel that If the stock exchange were
incorporated" he said, "and put under
some broad system Of regulation, that
1t would inure to the benefit of the
people who were investing in securi-
ties, and would be better for the pub
lie and the people conducting its busi-