The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
TO PROSECUTE GRAIN MEN
Government viii Proceed Against
Any Who Are Guilty
OF VIOLATING THE REBATE LAW
PRESIDENT sTIcKNEY TAKES A
HAND AT INVESTIGATING
SERIOUS CHARGES.
CHICAGO. July 1O.-A Washington

adopted by the Selldle Tic oeioi uo1
but it will prosecute any of those
found guilty of violating the law, and
will proceed against the combine itself
if the facts warrant such action.
1t was disclosed that the admins
policy toward the grain elevator inter-
ests that it has followed in the coal
and oil Investigations, which are be-
ing made by the interstate commerce
commission. That is to say, it pro-
poses to have the interstate commerce
commission furnish agents of the de-
partment of justice with a copy of all
testimony, which will be examined
with a view to legal proceedings.
Evidence is pouring in to the inter-
state commerce commission from va
rious sources. A. B. Stickney, presi-
! dent of the Chicago Great Western
/ company, was in Washington a few
days ago and conferred with the COM
mission with a view to securing an in
vestigation of the grain elevator serv-
! ice given by the Peavey company at
omaha, Kansas City and Council
Bluffs and by the Trans Mississippi
Grain company at Council Bluffs and
other points.
Stickney charged that these cor
porations collected toll from the rail-
roads for the elevation, transfer, load
! ing or unloading of grain transported
! by railroads, and declared that the
Union Pacific had entered into a Sc
/ cret contract with the Peavey COM
pany and the Trans Mississippi COM
pany to make them an allowance of
ia cents a hundredweight on all grain
! shipped to their elevators and SWITCH
and Council Bluffs.
That Elevation Charge.
Stickney further declared that the
contract is unlawful and licenses rob-
] berry of the many for the benefit of
! the few In other words, the trans
! fer charge the elevator companies re-
/ ceve, he asserts, is a rebate and war
rants the attention of the government.
In order to meet the rates by the
! Union Pacific the Chicago & North
western, the Chicago, Burlington &
! Quincy, the Missouri Pacific, the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
| the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific,
whose lines parallel those of the Union
| Pacific, made secret agreements with
large shippers of grain on their re-
spective lines which amounted to IA
cents hundredweight.
Great Western Counters.
Under these conditions" he said,
in a speech delivered at Omaha, a
copy of which he left with the COM
mission, "in order to protect the grain
markets of Omaha and Kansas City
and to secure a fair share of the
transportation of grain from Missouri
and other points, the Chicago Great
! Western company, which has no lines
west of the Missouri river, felt COM
PEELED, both in the interest of Justice
to the grain dealers and the markets
at Omaha and Kansas City and in it's
own interest, to make a similar allow
ance to shipments between these
points and more eastern markets
reached by its lines on all grain which
had not received such allowances like
the Pavey grain between the grain
fields and Omaha and Kansas City"
Says One Finn Lost $4,000.
Mr.. Stickney estimates that one con-
Germ last year shipped 10000 carloads
of grain into Omaha, which cost it
100000 more than a like quantity of
grain would have cost the Peavey in
terest and the Trans Mississippi COM
pany.
| These two elevator COMPANIES are
entitled to have grain arriving at
Omaha switched for nothing on six
railroad lines to their elevators in
Council Bluffs and switched for moth
ing from their elevators to any outgo-
ing line. The other nine elevators in
! Omaha and Council Bluffs are COM
| PEELED to pay from 50 to Sc a car In
order to get grain to their tracks. and
| the same amounts for getting grain
switched to outgoing lines, a discrim-
ination of from 81 to So a car.
] The interstate commerce commission