MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



Later he repeated that ne could see no 

 impropriety in these practices. 



Mr. Ewe's testimony showed that on a 

 certain day (October 28th, to wit) the Van 

 Dusen-Harrington Company had sold 9 cars to 

 its subsidiary companies, and on another day 

 had sold 12 cars to the Star Elevator Com- 

 pany, then 5 more to the same concern, and 

 then 3 cars to the Pioneer Steel Elevator 

 Company, making 18 cars sold that day from 

 itself to itself, or about one-half of its total 

 sales. ^ 



James Manahan, at that time a Congress- 

 man-at-large of the state of Minnesota, testi- 

 fied that the Minnesota House of Representa- 

 tives had not long before investigated the 

 subject of grain exchanges and he had been 

 counsel for the committee conducting the 

 investigation. He said that while acting in 

 that capacity he got the sales cards of the 

 Van Dusen-Harrington Company for one 

 day only, and found up6n them a sale of five 

 cars to the Pioneer Steel Elevator Company. 

 He continued : 



The next day at the hearing I questioned the manager 

 and he testified that the Pioneer Steel Elevator was a 

 subsidiary company which they themselves were oper- 

 ating under a different name. I showed also by com- 

 pelling the production on that day of the exact range 



1 Hearing on House Bill 14493, Sixty-third Congress, Testimony, 

 pp. 462 and 532. 



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