The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-20
MORTON ITO TELL. | | j. !.
ABOUT 1 REBATES 4: ] ! ! [. )
Seer etary o'f1'lN''avy to APP
pear Before. Senate ]
COMMITTEES
SPIRITED DEBATE
DURING SESSION y Y
Vote on Proposition Said to to
Have Been Close Senator y i's:
Morgan's Novel View 'i!:ts'' \ OF :sfl.i. S3
Powers Of Congress to
Regulate Railroad
Rates.
A.. I, |. . .,,,. : o,,r.,r,ond n, ent N,

rrnm our Resular Correspond dent
wAsHrNGTON,8D D. c., April 1s.-r--1t "a
currently reported tonight that the SEN
ate Committee on Interstate Comm erce1s
which Is now investiga ting the proposed
rate Eulation. will summon Secretary
Paul Morton. head Of tho Navy Depart
ment. to testify before It concerning the
granting Of rebates. s3s
sl MI. Morton told the Interstah 4 te5 3 Com a
merce Commission some time ago. before
lie was Secretary Of the Navy and while lie
he was at the head Of he traffic depa rt-
nent of the Santa Fe Rai iiroad |. Com a
.,any that his road had granted many man
tho,sands 81 dollars secret rebates to
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company IN
order to secure he busines q that COM
$pany 5S L: " s;S
Il Is und derstood that there was sconstd- n
serabls discussion Of spicy character IN
tho executive session Of the committee a'a
this evening over the prop to sum
mon MI. Norton. The decision to have t1 !, j
him appear before the committee was
reached by close vote. Y. He has notfye
been summoned Il IS
The secretary'H8 cont fessionS tina the of;
Sflcials OF his road had violated the law,
against granting rebates could not be
used against him in a criminal prosecu-91
stion, as the law provld les that sta tementsi
made before the Commerce Commission
shall . not be SO used. & OF course, there
will not be any prosecution resulting from;
any statement s made before the Senate 6,
Committee. 8 y,
F3H2s sSS5 M NJ orawetz & Test tihes.
Victor. A1oraWety ot thu tchiaon: \: To- G
8peKa ana San IA sFe Ilail road @waa before
1.-THE comm ttee again to day, Reply
Is a u,ies ton by Senator Dolliver. Mr.:
Morawetz explatned the charges Arega ID \
ing the granting OF rebates by the At; Az;
Gibson to the Colorado \ Fuel and Iron ron
Conipa ny He said that tho alleged ire-s re-
bate grew; out Of confusion Of the cost
~ ftransportatio Ion and the cost OF coal
The $Atchison q filed with the Il Int terstate
Commerce Commission a rate Of S4.O5
from the mine to 4 HE point OF in tersec-
ton with nnot her road which was con.
trolled \ BY Phelps, Dodge g. Co.. the coal
consigne Al a matt ter Of fact, ne said.
sthe rate was 81. 30 per ton and the 8dif- =
ference; p 1.15@ per tom was y paid to q the
Colorad Fuel and Iron SC company for the
coal s The road collected the price sof the ne
GCOala
the point 81; Ia el{Yery: was legged that
the spayn enta s8of Il 81 :15 to the Colorado
sConipany, was "a rebate. Il when as "a mat
ter of TIL he sail !. no bate was paid.
NO terest, hoa stat ed, uffer ed s BY tho
sact of the company Nobody yS connected
with the AtchIsonE system had any. inter
-est sin the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
fpany. SSe ii. BY !. .ss
d: Mr. sMorawetz denied that the "a tchison
had paid 81, 900. 900 In rebates to tho
Standard OIL Company, ,l3 ssa
Morgan's View Of II
THE paper fled with the Interstate
Commerce. Commission yesterday by Sem
ntor Morgan. takes aEnovel view OF the
powers ofA Congress to tregulat Q railway
rates, Senator NJ lorHan holds that under
the provision OF the Constitution giving
Congress the power to provide for tho
common welfare. Congress, MS soon as
a railroad ceases to be nj, nterstat te road
has the right to regulate Its rates. when
severaitsappears that such are oppressive.
BThis Is looked on as a view entirely N eW.
Senator M organ holds further that this
| lis a police rather than a judicial power.
and that the Congress under the Con-
stltut!on has the right to delegate It to
I2any agency created for the purpose