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1939 UNITED STATES SENATE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

HEARINGS

BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING SENATORS
SENATOR CLARENCE D. CLARK, CHAIRMAN
SENATOR WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM

SENATOR ALFRED B. KITTREDGE

SENATOR CHARLES A. CULBERSON

SENATOR LEE S. OVERMAN

RELATING TO

THE ABSORPTION OF THE TENNESSEE
COAL, IRON, AND RAILROAD COM-
PANY BY THE UNITED STATES
STEEL CORPORATION

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1909

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HEARINGS AS TO ABSORPTION OF TENNESSEE COAL, IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY BY THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, UNITED STATES SENATE, CONSISTING OF MESSRS. CLARK (CHÁIRMAN), DILLINGHAM, KITTREDGE, CULBERSON, AND OVERMAN.

The resolution of the Senate authorizing and directing the inquiry was agreed to on January 8, 1909, and is as follows:

Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is hereby, directed to report to the Senate, as early as may be practicable, whether, in the opinion of the committee, the President was authorized to permit the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation, as is shown by the message of the President in response to Senate resolution numbered two hundred and forty, this session.

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
UNITED STATES SENATE,
Friday, January 22, 1909.

The subcommittee met at 10 o'clock a. m.

Present: Senators Clark of Wyoming (chairman), Dillingham, Kittredge, Culberson, and Overman.

Present also, Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. On January 16, 1909, the subcommittee organized, each and every member thereof being present, and the following communication was addressed to the Attorney-General of the United States:

Hon. CHARLES J. BONAPARTE,

Attorney-General.

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,

UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C., January 16, 1909.

SIR: On the 8th instant the Senate passed the following resolution:

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'Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is hereby, directed to report to the Senate, as early as may be practicable, whether, in the opinion of the committee, the President was authorized to permit the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation, as is shown by the message of the President in response to Senate resolution numbered two hundred and forty, this session."

This resolution is now before the Committee on the Judiciary. A subcommittee has been appointed to take it under consideration and to make report upon it to the full committee. The subcommittee will meet on Thursday next, January 21, at 10 o'clock a. m., and will be glad to have you appear before it, if you desire to do so, and submit any matter which you may see proper to submit.

Yours, truly,

Whereupon the committee adjourned.

C. D. CLARK, Chairman.

On January 21, 1909, the committee met, all members being present, when the reply of the Attorney-General to the letter of the committee of January 16, was received as follows:

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