The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-27
JUDGE cIark Is on Hand.


Judge f F. Clark of the interstate
commerce commission. which opens an
investigation of coal carrying roads in
Salt Lake this morning. reached Salt
/ Lake yesterday. He is registered at the
/ Knutsford and last evening discussed the
coming investigation in a general way.
/ From his remarks il is safe guess that
the airing to be made of coal conditions
| in Utah and neighbOTing states will be
I more sensational than the results of the
/ September sessions of the commission in
/ Salt Lake, Denver and Omaha.
All in Readiness.
! c. H Wilkins special agent of the in
terstate commerce commission. also
I reached Salt Lake yesterday. He will as
| sist in the hearing. Attorneys ]. T.
I Marchand and T. z. Thomas will repre-
| sent the government in the hearing It
was Judge Marchand and Judge Thomas
who brought out much startling testi-
mony during the September sessions Of
the commission when it aired the Union
Pacific coal and railroad companies af-
fairs.
Attarhes of the commission refused to
admit anything last evening and have
maintained absolute silence when asked
about the line of testimony TO be opened
this morning. 1t has been learned. how
ever. that the Rio Grande and associated
coal companies are to be raked over the
Goals and to use the words of one who
knows, the Goals are 10 be at white
heat" The representatives of the gov
eminent will spring something worth
while during the thTee-day hearing. This
opens this morning al 10 o'clock and will
continue until Friday. A One-day ad
jOuTnment will be called Wednesday
evening for Thanksgiving day ObseT-
vances. Forty witnesses have been SUBJ
pOenaed.
Union Pacific Affairs Again.
Judge Marchand was not in town Sat
Urday and diigent inquiry failed TO throw
light upon his whereabouts, until word
was received from Evanston. WyO.. that
he was in that city. His visit there sug-
gested things 1t is known that the
Union Pacific Is TO be on the carpet
this morning, as Judge Robert S. Spence,
a land lawyer of Wyoming, and p. ".
Spaulding an attache of the Union Pa
ciffc Coal cOmpanys legal department at
Evanston, have been subpOenaed as wit
nesses, and will arrive in Salt Lake to-
day. Both were star witnesses before
the commission during its recent Ses-
sions here, and their being subpoenaed
for a second appearance before the COM
mission is a promise of additional EVIL
dence upon coal and oil affairs.
What Judge Spence Knows.
Judge Spence testified before that the
Union Pacific Coal company controls the
output of Wyoming. as it has frozen ont
mitted when under fire in September that
he took up land which he never saw
and paid for it with money advanced
him by Superintendent George J.. Black
of the Union Pacific Coal company at
Rock Springs Spaulding said he had
never paid this money back, and while
denying that he had been paid for filing
upon the land for his company, advanced
the information that he had received
compensation" for his dummy work
With the knowledge gathered from va
riOus sources, it is thought the Union
Pacific companies will not occupy the
witness stand during the entire portion
of today. The affairs of the railroad and
allied coal company were aired tnoTousn-
ly in September. and it is thought the
commission now has the matter so wen
in hand that not "a minutes time VIII De
lost in acquiring additional information
about coal and oil conditions in Wyo-
ming and Utah-
Rio Grande Takes the Stage.
When the Union Pacific bows and yields
the witness stand. the Rio Grande and
sjIied coal companies will take the cen
ter of the stage and say its little part
That the Utah Fuel and Pleasant Valley
Coal companies are TO be investigated
thoroughly is taken as a certainty Io-
cal officials and employees are to he
called to the stand and asked pertinent
questions about coal affairs. Dummies
will be included in the cast of this lit
tie affair. which can be aDtly termed
Light on Coal or an End to Shortages.
The Investigations Of coal carrying roads
have been ordered by congress, under the
authority of the Tillman-Gillespie rcsOll-
ton Legislation sufficiently strong. will
follow which will prevent circumvention
of the law by corporations. Actions may
be started. against those who conducted
campaign of fraudulent land getting
from the government.
Lacked Equipment"
IT is also believed the investigation will
throw light. not only upon the acquisition
of coal lands but upon the distribution
of fuel AT the last sessions of the COM
mission here under the direction Of
Charles A. Prouty. the commission en-
deavored to learn if there is a combine
of coal dealers existing in Salt Lake.
This point was but one brought up.
Lack of equipment has been the rail-
roads every-ready explanation of the
Yearly coal shortages in Salt Lake aud