The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-13
ANGRY
HITS At WITNESS.
LaWyerolnlI | Stand 5 al i 1. ! Rouses. 4 uses
Ire Of Commits
SiOnerS.
AL LOW.ANCES TO
COAL COMPANIES.
Presidents Of Five Railways to Be
Invited to Appear Before In
vestigating Body and
Make Such State
1nents as They
Desire.
fRY Associated Press.l

Y .53s (Byf Associated $Press.)
APHILADELPHIA, June 12.-The Bcr-
wind white Coal Mining Company was
tho Issue before the Interstate Commerce
Com mission when It resumed its inves-
tigation to-day into tho rela tions OF rail-s
roads to coal and oil Interests. Probably
the most important fact brought out was
that the coal company Is allowed Sc ven
cents a ton blythe Pennsy ylvanta Railroad "a
Company for handling It's cars on the
aHarsimus pier. This allowance gives the
coal company about $4,000 a month 1t Tor, Tor
this service. The work Is performed
however, by Pennsylvania Railroad crews, p' g
with railroad locomotives. for which the
coal company makes monthly settlements
With. the railroad, !, the mount OF the
monthly Bill being something over 500.
Commiss ioners Angry.
Charles Heebner, counsel for the Bcr-i
swind5white Company, aroused the Ire Of
the commissioners when he told them
scoaI loaded into the bunkers ffof steam
ships was paid for by estimated welgnt.5
and that there was no way OF dete r7nlln N
Sing the quantity OF coal that remalned
In barge when the steamship did not
take the entire load. Commissioner :
$cockre1l suggested q that counsel was
4evasiye. which Mr.. Heebner Indignantly
denied. tSS ~ 3s5 .S ~ ,a =
d s..yye have nothing to evade. 4" ne de-
2clared '.but 1 don't know how you are are
going to find out what you q re trying g
To- learn, because we have no way 81 q
knowing It ourselves III 81
ell, we will stagger along the best
an. an was commssio Clements e
comment S33 S$i35 5ssf3ifill
SSssI g developed sthrough the test timony Of
SFrederick MacOwe,t tire asurerS Of IS .ttle the
company. that tsy during 81 :a period f1eH
cars were sea rec E. ~. rs Berwlnd ma de
arrangements with the pennsylvania
Railroad by which Sliis compan s secured.
1000 Individual cars, several hundred p Z
which had been I'm the service 4 OF g ne
railroad. n Mr. &C owen etailed the HIS,
tory OF the Berwind White Company
and explained the lease Of Harsimus pier.
h 4 r. L. Franklin. assistan Z freight agent
OF the " Pennsylvania Railroad. was one
OF the witnesses. Through him It was,
shown that out of seven claims for coal
lost In transport four made Az by
Weston Dodson and Com pany were n I
granted y and three made by the / Key
stone Coal and Coke Company, were
allowed. THE keystone Company's claims
were allowed for delay en- route, Mr.,
~ 20 -
have been delay in the case of the
other claims. 1t was likely that It oc-
Cured atEthe destination, for which the
sconsignee was probably responsible
To Hear Heads Of Roads.
~ The presidents OF the big coal carrying
railroads will be given an opportunity to,
appear before the commission md make
any statement they may desire, Com
missioner Cockrell said to-day that inYi-
.tations would be extended to the presi-$
dents OF the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore
and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western, the
Chesapeake and Ohio and the New York
Central Railroads to appear be fore the
com m ission. No subpoenas WILL be is
sued for the heads Of these roads. and
their. appearance will be entirely optional
with the officers. NJ
.'You cannot condemn a man Without q
thearing,' said Commissioner Cockrell.5
3'It has been the purpose OF the COM
mission to permit the presidents OF the
coal roads to make any statements they
may desire, but we are not yet ready.
We want all the testimony we can get
from the subordinates, and the case IN 4
It's entirety will be before the commits
sion and the railroad presid ts.
ls Commissioner Cockrell said the ot1icla!
nottacation that the commission was
ready 10 hear the presidents ts would be
sent to them Tomorrow, but he did not
believe they would be heard before a.s''1 June.
21st. ii