The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-27

Pacific Mail Subsidy to Be Investigated
whisky Trust to Escape.

WI fsky Trust TO Escape.
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. 26-The house
committee on rules was in session today
considering several important questions
4 majority agreed on a course, and there is
Reasonable certainty as to what action will
be taken on the whisky trust investiga-
ton. the Panama railroad investigation
and the silver question. In view of the
Fellows and Geary resolutions to inquire
into the incroachment upon the Monroe
doctrine by foreign control of the Panama
railroad. q substitute will be reported pro-
viding for inquiry as to whether there is
any discrimination by this transportation
company against American commerce,
leaving the Monroe doctrine out of the
question, and as to the use made of the
100000 said to have been expended in
this country by the Panama Canal Com
,any.
The most important feature of the in
quiry will be on q subject not treated of in
the original resolutions. The committee
will report that as part Of the proposed
Investigation, . searching and broad in
vestigation will be made as to the character
of the contracts alleged to have been
made between the Pacific Mail Steamship
company and transcontinental railroads
for the purpose of diverting traffic from
the steamship and Panama route to trans
continental roads, to the subversion of the
policy of congress in granting a subsidy
70 the Pacific Mail Company. and whether
the subsidy should be withdrawn. The
resolution will thus be made for the inves-
tigation of the transcontinental roads and
the Pacific Mail.
A day will be given for the silver repeal
bill in the house. and the whisky trust
investigation will probably be referred to
the judiciary committee, to consider it to-
Z gether with the general subject of trusts,
and nothing whatever will come of it.
In the senate this morning Chandler in
troduced q resolution directing the commit
tee on finance to investigate and report next
December whether there is a whisky trust
organized to control the manufacture and
sale of distilled liquors; whether the rebate
system is used: whether adulterants or
drugs are used etc.
BY mutual agreement before the COM
mittee on rules between the free silver
Democrats and the anti-silver Democrats
the silver question will he considered in
the house on the 9th and 10th of February,
with the Andrew state banking and Sher-
man bullion repeal bills as the basis Of
consideration and possible action.
New York, Jan. 26.-The Euening Post
claims 10 have discovered the "secret con.
tract" under which it holds the Pacific
Mail Company is directed in its operations
BY the Missouri Pacific and other roads of
the Transcontinental Association. The
contract according TO the post is a long
document signed by James Smith, on be-
half of the Transcontinental Association.
and George j. Gould, on behalf of the
Pacific Mail company. The whole
meaning of the contract is shown
in the third section, which. as
quoted. is to the effect that the Transcon-
slnental Association shall. through its
agents. have entire and exclusive control
( OF all through business of the Pacific Mall
between New York and San Francisco
Zach way. and that no through freight or
Passengers shall be taken except at prices
70 be fixed by the transcontinentai, and by
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