The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-21
BIC SENSATIONS
IN COAL HEARING
Review Of Work Already Done.
Sessions Begin Again
"Wednesday.

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PHlLADELpHIA, May .o,-Testimony
Commission. in session in 1.s city for
four days last week, shows there Is much
truth In the charges Of discrimination and
favoritlsm In the soft coal fields OF the
State that have been made against the
Pennsylvania and other railroads. More
startling revelations are promised when
the commission resumes It's sessions here
next Wednesday.
vealcd. Already part of the story Of
how the Pennsylvania Railroad rules abb
soutely the soft coal output has been
spread upon the records a65
vanla Railroad have told the story. them
selves. Out of their own mouths has
came the startling tale Of graft and mo-
nopoly Of favoritism and discriminatory.
worth Of stock of favored coal companies:
have told the story Of how sales of coal
are made to the railroad companies whose
officers, as stockholders, share in the
great profits.
eliminating as 1t is startling. More IS
promised and It Is expected that when
the commission meets again next Wed,
nesday. William A. Glasgow. It's special
counsel, will have more witnesses ready
to tell Of the charges and to furnish the
The Charges.
/ The charges before the com mission,
which will resume It's session In this city.
Wednesday, morning, are direct and un-
compromising. They are, In brief:
1 That4,here was unjust and unlawful
b discrimination.
That ii was due to favorItism and
L virtual bribery
That high as we'll rs minor railroad
officials were financially Interested IN
coal companies Il, the Pennsylvania,
bitumlnous fields. which were favored
I nt every, opportunity and In various
That the railroads aided, in every
way the movements of coal from tho
mrInes OF favored companles, which:
previously to the anthracite strike OF
1902 which created an abnormal de-
n,and for soft coal, were crowding
smaller and non-favored companies 10 i
the wall.
That one of tho methods OF ,fayorit-
isn, was the refusal to put sidings on
properties of mon-fayored companies
so that the product of the mines could !
not he moved.
given at the four-days' hearing before
tth The g commission, the chief witnesses be-
ing employees and officers OF the Pehn-
sylvana Railroad ana opern1o,rss'
Scarcely more than a year yT,1t aEo ,1c,sc =, ~,
Cassatt. summoned to the Wnlte Housc
for conference on railroad rate lGgglsia.,ooI'fi
positively assured President ftopseHu,t w
that there was no Discrimination. no thsr NY
oriitism, no payment of rebates or otner la
the pennsyya9ihS ihe Rasqesi yrsntesi
tlrnnsnortntion l,s system in the world, was
being drlg''ca Conducted along lines of strict hon-
esty and equal DEALING. ~, ! "a
such were the assurances glyen " q rnS ny 'to 10
tie Chief bSecutiye of the nation n Sot
only was his company good ana IT'S Hah.
agement clean, went on Mr, "a "a assass Nv. W
deal" policy carried ont to the letter Dy
ali railroads that he. offered TO back up up
President Rooseyent to that end With y the t, ,le
entire Organization OF the Pennssy1Ya'nn'a Y'n
Railroad, -, s
OH Ia Pennsylvania Railroad officers ana
freight agents ordering them to spy OUT
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