Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-15
HARTMAN ACCUSED
Interstate Commissioners Arr
 raign Railroad Magnate.
HIS HAND PULLS ALL TIE WIRES
Controls All Lines In Pacific Coast From Portland on North to Mex ican Border-No Recommen-
 dation to Prosecute.

! WASHINGTON, July 15.--A report was made public by the interstate com merce commission of its inquiry into the railroad operations of Edward H. Hartman and of the operations of the so called Hartman lines of railway, which has been in progress for several months. The report, which was writ ten by Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, is the unanimous expression of the commission on the subject. Copies of the report have been transmitted to President Roosevelt and to the depart ment of justice.
 The report is an exhaustive summary of the evidence adduced at the several hearings held by the commission in the course of its inquiry It enters fully into discussion of the policy pursued 1 by Mir. Hartman in obtaining and maintaining control of the various lines of railway in the Hartman sys- l tenn and presents fairly complete his tory of the operations of the various | lines.
 The commission states that it heard 1 testimony at New York, Chicago, Seat 1 tle, Portland, San Francisco and Los i Angeles and found that the Union Pa ci1c Railroad company and Edward H. Hartman were practically synony- nous; that in all the great transactions of this company Mir. Hartman as l ahoi ,f ftan l acted upon his own initiative, and his acts were subsequently ratified and | approved by the executive committee. ! It further found that the Union Pacific has in the past six years so grown in | power and influence that at this time 1t controls every line of railroad reach ing the Pacific between Portland on 1 the north and the Mexican border on the south, a distance as great as that /, from Maine to Florida, excepting alone the Santa Fe line, in which 1t has d large stock interest, and of his ability to take this road at any time the 1 law will permit MT. Hartman express es no doubt
 Mr. Hartman may journey by steam ship from New York to New Orleans, thence by rail to San Francisco, across the Pacific ocean to China and, return. ing by another route to the United ! States, may go to Ogden by any one of three rail lines and thence to Kansas City or Omaha without leaving the deck or platform of carrier which he controls and without duplicating any part of his journey.
 He has further what appears to be a dominating control in the Illinois Cen tral railroad, running directly north from the gulf of Mexico to the great i lakes. paralleling the Mississippi river and 2,O00 miles west of the Illinois Y Central he controls the only line of railroad paralleling the Pacific coast and running from the Columbia river to the Mexican border.
 l The commissioners point out plain and direct method by which Edward H. Hartman can be placed in prison for merging the Union and Central Pa cific railroads.
 t The act of 1874 is quoted, and de cision of the United States supreme court is given as a precedent.
 There is no recommendation made that prosecution be instituted, as the department of justice is supposed to take action in such matters.
 President Roosevelt will have anoth' CT conference with Attorney General Bonaparte, Special Counsel Kellogg and the members of the interstate com merce commission, during which the entire Hartman case will be discussed