The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-28

, trlbutors to your campaign, interested
| in the steel Corporation? A. lie was.
| @ Did you ever cause or instruct the
| Acknowledgement to cause the bringing
of any action or the making OF any In
quiry or investigation concerning or
| against the New York and New Haven
Railroad Company? A. I did.
Lawyers in Battle.
Mr.. Bowers fought very hard 10 block
such questions. but the court continued
| to rule that since Col. Roosevelt had
charged MIR. Barnes with being the mead
of an invisible government In the in
( terests of crooked politics and crooked
business, evidence to show that the de-
PENDANT did not disapprove of an alliance
between business and politics was com
| petent.
Mr.. Bowers protested that nobody had
shown that certain corporations needed
| Investigation or tfat anybody had asked
favors OF President Roosevelt
Mr.. WINS broke In with the remark
that they would try to get TO that In
| time Mr.. Bowers snapped at Mr.. WINS
for failing to show what questions bore
on material and what on immaterlal
evidence. And WINS snapped right back
81 suffer from some human limitations.
One Is that can only ask one question
at a time"
The examination went on.
O. Did YOU ever hear OF the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company? A. Yes, sir. !
Rave.
o Do YOU know whether the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company was a
competitor OF a steel corporation! a.
II depends upon what you call competi-
ton.
q. Don't you know what competitor
in business is? A. There are different
senses in which the word Ii used. My
understanding was that the Tennessee
Goa, and Iron Company was not
Mr.. Ivins-I move to strike that out.
Mr. Bowers-He has a right to give
ris understanding.
Mr.. 1vins-No. have not asked him
for his understanding.
The Court Directs.
The Cour,--You asked him II he knew
] II was competitor; the witness can
say yes or no, or can say that he cam
not answer because he does not under
stand the form in which you used the
word
A. do not understand tire form In
which you use the word.
Mr. Bowers-Now stop. please, with
that. We will be all summer trying this
case.
Mr. lvins--We may. I cannot tell. We
did not start this game
Mr.. Bowers-Ycs, you did
/ Mr. Ivins-No. you did Mr.. Roose-
. welt made the first publication.
@ DO You know that the Tennessee
Col and Iron Company was In COMPETE
| ton With the Steel Corporation for bust
ness in the manufacture and sale OF
| steele \ a: the time OF my action?
-. At any time. \. II may have been
some time, ! do not know.
. Did you. directly or indirectly, at
any time or in any way, authorize or ap-
! prove OF the absorption by the Steel
| Corporation Of the Tennessee Coal and
| Iron Company 4. I did
From steel matters Mr.. WINS passed
TO the Harvester company. with few
! questions about the Du Pont Powder
! Company.
O. Did YOU ever direct or cause the
, Attorney-Gencral Of 'he United states
! 70 bring an action OF any kind under
1 tho Sherman act or otherwise against
| the Harvester company? A | did not.
@ Was Mr.. Perklns interested in the
! Harvester company? \. He was.
/ 9 Was he one Of the contributors to
/ your campaign fund in 1904 ~ He
I was.
, g Was he subsequently one OF the
| contributors 20 your campaign fund in
! 1872 4. lie was.
q Nd You ever direct or instruct the
| Attorney-Gereral 10 bring any action
under the sherman law or any other
law against TIE Du Pont Powder Com
| pany? \. | don't remember.
| .. IL not Il a fact that Mr.. du Pont
was a contributor TO your fund in 1904?
| r Coleman du Pont' A. You have told
me 70 was.
@. Is not 1t a fact Don't you know
! 80 A ! do not know.