The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-03-31
Overwhelming Testimony Is on
File With the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
BASIS FOR INJUNCTION SUIT.
Rebates of From 31-2 to > Cents
Per Hundred Pounds Made to
Swift. Armour. Norris and
Other Big Packers.
REPUBILc SPECIAL.

| REPUBILc SPECIAL.
Washington. March 30.-Overwhelmils
| testimony as TO the power and rapacity ot
| TIE bee. TIN: il on file fere la the rop=is o:
| tn. Interstate Commerce Commission. That
| This combination absolutely controls the
| markets East and West, that its power is
| Sufficient TO make every railroad company
| IN the country violate the laws ana grant
] 1t discriminating rates to the annihla;ion
| OF smaller competitors, is shown by the
| testimony taken by the Interstate Com
| merce Commission about a year ago.
| A score Of the most prominent railroad
| men in the country swore that IL was i'm
Possible to avoid giving the great stock
| yard proprietors and packing house ooera-
| tors rates below the tariff that was accord
ed TO the general public.
]. NJ. johnson, third vice president and
freight traffic manager OF the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific during the Chicago
investigation in March, 1901, testified that
the concessions made TO packers Were frog,
S:a TO D cents hundred pounds from the
published rate. which was ISL. cents from
all Missouri River points, and 23Is cents 10
Chicago.
Railroad Omcials' Admissions.
Mr.. johnson testified that the difference
between the published tariff rates and the
contract rate to the big butchers was re-
were made We're Swift, Armour. Morris,
Fowler & Co.. Ruddy Brothers and Ham
By Commissioner Prouty: WHO. do you
think, gets the benefit OF these cuts. the
Mr.. Johnson. diippantIy,: "The dear pub
Ii gets the beneft of IL. They get the
benefit. from the man who raised the calf
to the millionaire who eats the. the steak" ,,.,
that the millionaire that kills. packs and
ships gets any part of it?'
Thomas Miller. general freight agent of
the C., b. & g. said that his road had
beef and packing house products. The re-
bates were paid by check to the traffic
manager OF each packing-house.
fic manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul, testified that. during the early
part OF 19l,' concession of cents was
made to the Beef Combine, and later the
concession reached cents.
Atchison's Rebates Million n Year.
Mr.. BIRD was pressed for information as
to how these concessions to the shippers
affected the small shippers. but he was sin
gularly uncommunicative.
Paul Morton of the Atch!son road testi-
I'VE have carried the business from Kan
sas to Chicago from to cents less than
the published rates TO Chicago and Chicago
He instanced nearly all of the big butch
ers as participating in this concession. They
ndu MADE Il contract AT D per cent OH Win |
Schwarzchild and Sulzeburger. Concessions |
We're also given to Swift and trmour. :.
By Commissioner Clements: IAN you tell |
how much you paid out in year in these |
rebates?"
Mr.. Morton: There is a great deal more |
money paid out than there ought to be. |
should think between $4,000 and 81 0O0.0Do |
a year is paid out by my company.
ID. I. McCabe. freight traffic manager of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, |
testified that the domestic rate from Chi |
caeo to New York is 80 cents. but that 1t |
was cut to 20 cents 4 hundred. The differ |
ence was paid back to the shipper by re- |
bate.
On this testimony is based the injunction |
suit against nearly all of the railroads run
ming from Kansas City to Chicago to re-
strsin them from making discriminating |
rates in favor Of such dominant shippers as
the Beef Trust.