Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-11
RANWAYSANDpA(KERS
WILL HAVE ATTENTION
OF COMMERCE COMMISSION
Getting Material for Special Message
Of the President Dealing With
Inter State Afairs---Wit.
neSseS Skip Out.

Chicago, Jan. 3.-The Record.Herald
tomorrow will say: The Interstate
Commerce Commission will begin a
series of three investigations in Chi
cago next Tuesday, which are said to
have for their purpose the gathering
Of data for a special message by Pres.
ident Roosevelt to Congress. II is said
that in this special message President
Roosevelt will deal with three sub.
jects. as follows:
]. Railway combinations.
2. The Interstate Commerce Com.
mission.
3. Legislation governing interstate
traffic.
Originally it was the purpose Of the
President to cover these subjects fully
in his annual message to Congress,
but owing to the inability of the inter
state Commerce Commission to get
all the facts necessary, these subjects
were touched upon but briefly and
were lett to be handled in a supple.
mentary message. The investigations
which will be made and which will
supplant those already made are:
/. Tuesday at Chicago, the transpor.
tation OF paclcing.house products and
dressed beef
2. Wednesday at Chicago, the Bur.
lington.Northern Paciac.G Great North.
Crn combination.
3. Thursday at Kansas City, grain
and grain products to Eastern and
seaboard points.
4. Friday at Chicago, clearinghouse
products and dressed beef. United
States Marshal Ames' deputy was busy
today serving and trying to serve sub.
pCenas on representatives of packing.
house interests. He had six sum.
monses and succeeded in serving two.
Several OF the men sought are said
to have escaped service by leaving the
city hurriedly, one of them missing
the deputy by only few seconds.
While the pacliing.house men are
apparently stunning the investigation.
the railroad men are not seeking to
avoid II. Many of them believe that
anything is better than the present
conditions, and that with stable rates
would come lower rates, to the great
benefit Of the entire country. The
packing.house men who were served
with SubpOenas are George b. Robbins.
president OF Armour car lines; w. b.
jenkins, superintendent of tTansporta.
ton for the Hammond Packing Com.
pany. No subpoenas were issued for
the railroad men, but in their stead
letters were received from the Com
mission requesting their attendance at
the investigation.
II is said that every person In
charge Of traffic on a road centering
here and known to carry packing
house products and dressed beef, has
re ceived a copy of the letter.
II Is doubtful If the investigation
into the Burlington deal can proceed
Wednesday. as President Harris OF
the Burlington and Darius Miller. vice
president, will not be in the city.
They have asked the Commission to
postpone the date, and unless the st.
Paul interests can get here a post.
ponement may become necessary.
II II understood that the legal coun.
sci interested in the organization OF
the Northern Securities Company. Jas.
J. Hill, f.. II. Hartman. J. p. Morgan.
former President Hayes OF the South.
ern Pacific, President Burt Of the
Union Pacific and J. c. Stubbs. traffic
director for the Hartman lines, have
been asked to attend. None of these
men were subpoenaed, but Darius
Miller said that he expected to respond
to the commissions request, and it is
presumed that others will do the same.
II is also the purpose Of the commits.
sion to inquire into the purchase Of the
Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific,
and into all that has transpired with.
In the last year as tending to show the
working OF the community of inter
ests idea. Railroad men have been
given to understand that the investi
gats)n into rate matters Is not for the
purpose OF inncting punishment upon
any one. but simply in the line of In.
vestigation for facts and data. This Is
understood as confirming the purpose
OF the President to send q special mes.
sage to Congress.