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Community or Interest
PLAN Replaced REBATINC
FURTHER LIGHT ON MOTIVES
LEADING TO ABOLITION
OF REBATES.

First Vice President of Pennsylvania
Surprises Interstate Commerce Gem
missioners and Their COunsel--An-
nOunces That for Nearly Two Years
the Directors Have Been Considering
Means of Eliminating Private Cars
Cassatt Dismisses CRATER.
Philadelphia, June New light was
shed to-day on the motives leading to
the abolition of freight rebates by the
railroads when Jasnes McCrea, first
vice president Of the PennsyHpatIia
company, which operates the Pe1fngyl-
vania railroad lines west Of PRetsb,Tg,
appeared as q witness before the Inter
state Commerce commission. MIR. Nc
Crea expressed himself as Favorable to
publicity in the rating of rniales and
the distribution of oars. He surprised
the commissioners and their counsel Ny
announcing that ior nearly two vears
and UP to the time of President CAS-
salts recent departure foa Burope, the
board Of directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad, OF whioh he is a member, had
been considering means for eliminating
| the pnivate car from the lines OF the
company He declared the company
! had concluded that the use OF these
cars was unwise.
Toward the conclusion of his teaa4zno-
ny Attorney Glasgow asked .HfSs Ac-
| Great when President Cassatt decided
to stop rebating.
Just as soon as he got control oa, The
Pennsylvania ra5lroads that was IN
1889" said Mr.. McCrea
| simultaneously the community ox
Interest plan was adopNsd, was It no8R"
was Mr.. GlasgoW's next question.
Mr. MeCrea said he was not cAk&REn
ais to that. He then entered ik1an
lengthy explanation of The rebate Eys-
| tenn, and declared that the dEecsors iof
other roads were pleased with the Eea
of aIbohshing 1t when the sah3ect WAS
brought to their attention. Ee sakd he
Thought 1t questionable II rebafing
would have been voluntarily stopped BY
| the railroads.
| After replying to numerous questions
Mr.. McCrea admitted finally that the
rebating stopped when the community
OF interests plan started He asserted
that the shipper was never SO fairly
treated as now. He has stable rates
and is placed in a fair position with his
competitors.
Mr.. MoCrea also told the commission
that he had resigned from the investi-
eating committee appointed by the di-
rectors Of the Pennsylvania following
the revelations of the commission, be-
cause he did not want to be In the po-
sition Of investigating the lines under
his jurisdiction. He declared himself
opposed to officials or employees holding
any personal interests which might
clash with their official duties.
There were other interesting develop-
ments during to-day's hearing Joseph
K. Aiken, Nchief clerk to A. G. Mltohell,
superintendent Of the Monongahaia
River division Of the Pennsylv vania rasi-
road, admitted owning stock in namesa
Gus coal companies, some of which wns
given to him, while for the other shares
he paid a privilege price. He ALSO tes-
titled to having paid to Joseph Boyer,
former chief clerk to A.. Gibbs, Eve
cents a ton commission for fuel coal
which one Of his companies furnished to
the railroad. 1t was simply "a business
transaction he said.
s. r, Potter, president of the Donohoe
Coal and Coke company, whose opera
tions are located in Westmoreland
county, charged that the Pennsylvania
railroad had committed gross indfscrirn-
| s.a~ a. ~. sr4w DG 4
his company. One car day was. his
allotment for seven months, he. declar-
ed. He said also that detective sent
by his company to determine thAsxat-
ing OF the Loyalhanna mine had been
fired upon.
Joseph B. Boyer, the Pennsylvania
railroad employee, who yesterday testi-
; fed before the interstate commerce
commission that he had received hsnse
sums of money and other gaaasSfaies
from producers Of coal on the Penneyl-
vania railroad lines, was to-day DIS
, missed from the service OF the erfd1-
pany. When the matter was brought to
the attention of President Ea6satt. he
directed the immediate discharge Of
tBoyer.
Boyer, In his testimony yesterday
said he had accepted more than $#6oe0
from coal mining companies during a
period of three years, He was chief
clerk in the Office of A.. w. Gibbs. !su-
perintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company. The
donoFs, he said, were five different coal
companies, which furnish coaa to the
railroad. BoSSFs testimony was. az a
sensational character. He'testified that
he had been allowed from three to five
cents on each ton sold to the railroad
company, and In such n1atter-of-fact
manner that the commissioners were
almost stupiffed by the startling adinis-
! sions.
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Baton Rouge La, June The state