The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-25
TRIBUNE TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER

| otherwise, any of the coal or oil which
| they, or either of them, directly or
| through other companies which they
control or in which they have an inter
est, carry over their or any of their
lines as common carriers, or in any
manner own. control, or have any in
! terest in coal lands or properties or oil
lands or properties.
Second-Whether the officers of any
of the carrier companies aforesaid, or
any of them, or any person or persons
charged with the duty OF distributing
cars or furnishing facilities to shippers
are interested, either directly or indi.
rectly, by means OF stock ownership or
otherwise in corporations or companies
owning. operating, leasing, or other.
wise interested in any coal mines coal
properties, or coal traffic. oil, oil prop
critics, or oil traffic over the railroads
with which they or any of them are
connected or by which they or any of
them are employed.
Thrd-Whetber there is any contract
combination in the form of trust, or
otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of
trade or commerce among the several
States. in which any common carrier
engaged in the transportation of coal
or oil is Interested or to which il is a
party; and whether any such common
carrier monopolizes or attempts to
with any other carrier company or
companies, person or persons TO mono
police any part of the trade or com
mcrce in coal or oil, or traffic therein
among the several States or with for
eign nations, and whether or not and
If so, to what extent, such carriers, or
any of them, limit or control directly
or indirectly, the output of coal mines
or the price or coal and oil fields or
the prize of
Fourth-lf the Interstate Commerce
commission shall find that the facts OF
any of them set forth in the three
para graphs above do exist, then that it
be further required TO report as TO the
effect of such relationship, ownership,
or interest IN coal or coal properties
and coal traffic or oil. oil properties,
or oil traffic aforesaid. or such con.
tracts OF combinations in form Of trust
or otherwise, or conspiracy or such
monopoly or attempt TO monopolize, or
combine or conspire as aforesaid, upon
such person or persons as may be en-
gagged independently of any other per.
sons IN mining coal or producing oil
and shipping the same. or other pro-
ducts, who may desire 70 so engage. or
upon the general public as consumers
of such oil or coal.
Fifth-1hat said commission be also
required to Investigate and report the
system of car supply and distribution
in effect upon the several railway lines
engaged in the transportation of coal
or oil as aforesaid, and whether said
systems are fair and equitable, and
whether the same are carried out fairly
and properly; and whether said car
riers, or any of them, discriminate
against shippers or parties wishing to
become shippers over their several
lines, either IN the matter of distribu-
tion of cars or of furnishing facilities
or instrumentalities, connected with re.
ceiving, forwarding or carrying coal
or oil
Sixtb-That said commission be also
required to report as TO what remedies
IT can suggest TO cure the evils above
set forth, if they exist.
Seventh-That said commission be
also required to report any facts or con.
clusions which it may think pertinent
TO the general inquiry above set forth.
Eighth-That said commission be re.
quired to make this investigation at its
earliest possible convenience and to
furnish the information above required
from time TO time and as soon as it
can be done consistent with the per.
formance of It's public duty
Approved March Z, 1906.