The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-23
GAVE DIRECT LIE
TO SK|B0 LAIRD
AMOUNTED TO MILLIONS
VICE E-PRESlDENT GREEN or THE
PENN ROAD SAYS cARNE.
GLE COT REBATES.
Stockholders Are Aroused--commie-
cionerc viii lnveetigate Enor-
moue Gifts of Coal Com
pany Stocks.

Philadelphia May % Three tart.
ling Gey alopment came today In con
aecton with ehatiEs practical by the
Penns ylyania n ilread, which is now
! being inyeEt gated ~ he Interstate
commerce commi sion
One was the declaration Of vice
President John T. Green. who Is act,
ing president In the absence of Mr..
Cassatt. denying the statement OF An
drew Carnegie that he hal never re-
ceived rebates, and eriing in the
Nest positive way that the Pannsyl
yania had paid to the CarnegiA Steel
Works a vast fortune IN .ebater
The wa an air Of general gloom
in the Pennsylvania offices and most
OF the officials We're silent, but when
VIE President Green was asked con
cerning The atemant Of Mr. Carnegie
that heh never received rebates. he
said hunuy that the Carnegie Steal
company received rebates on $4,000
600 of annual traffic oyer the PennsJ
yania lines
urge N&Sd CT kSmSuy'
The econd sensation today cane IL
the announcement taat a largo body of
independent ockholders Of the Penn
sylyania whose faith had been shaken
by the revelations of the past week,
he'd decided to urge upon the Pennsyl-
yanla legislature the necessity of
recognizing Tie alleged gross mis-
management Of the PEN sylvania sys-
ten ana the nael of remedy
Following on tho aeels oi TIL re
! port came the announcement that the
work OF tho commlssiaas il
meets again Wedne day will be aime
particularly 70 ascertain why Samuel
Rea. third yice-pgesidsnt of the road
lreeeaved $4,000 in ca-l fpm the
Greenw Oh Coal company, AM why an.
other of the leading vice pseasd ant T
OF the road hal fifty-1na ihousand dol
lar bills on his desk one day, the in
ference being that this money also
came frGm coal company
Graft On Colo sal Soals,
William A. Glasgow, counsel for
the commits ica, said today that the
l$5o0 0O0 in coal took, which it has
been testified. was received by th'f
teen ffice's Of the road, was only an
index Of a colossal sys EN- of graft BY
Thu graft Mr Glasgow aid at least q
dozen Of tae Pennsylvania road of
cials had been able to becoma mul1i
millionaires.
Subpoena we q served toiay on
First Vice Pre- jlent Green, Third V ce
President Rea, william A. Patten
President Cassatt's a. slstauts IN Phil.
adelphia. and upon Robert Pitcairn
a 81 tant Of Presiden, Cassalt in p It's.
burg.
II is also expected that Robert Gas
sati. the presidents son. who is vice
president of the Keystone Coal and
Coke company. whica was one cf the
doners Of stock 10 Pennsylvania oni
cials. will also be called
Reeorts shog rebates.
"Prior 10 1899" declared V.ca presi-
'deat Green. "the Carnegie company
received a very ub taniial rebate on
every pound OF Gre. cruda or refined,
that was shipped over our lines. Any
declaration 10 the contrary Is absurd
az the records will show"
DO You remember a heated differ
eace between Mr. Carnegie and MIR
CassaIt? Mr. Carnegie says it dill no.
.tc ur."
Il do not know exactly what hap
penetl in this talk" he replied. but I
know that seven year, ago we hat
down abrup y On tIe rebate sy-tem
and PLAYED no favoTtea"
rs r. true that Mr.. Carnegie threat
euel 10 parallel yoar lines and dia ac-
ually aid the Wabash 10 enter Pitts
hurpe"
"Such was my und stlnliag." re-
ulial Vice President Green. The
Wabash did enter TiitsDuIg. and %
va through potent assistance ou' ida