The San Francisco call., 1907-01-28
StubbS Also Arrives to
Watch the Inquiry
Toll on All Freight
Will Be First
Considered

Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Franklin K. Lane
arrived in San Francisco
from Portland yesterday to
investigate charges that
have been laid against the
Southern Pacific Company
and subsidiary corporations.
Accompanying him as a
representative of the Gov
ernnent in the capacity of
inquisitor is Attorney c. A.
Severance of St. Paul, whose
secretary, ]. B. Sanborn, is
also of the party. Lane is at
the home of his brother,
George w. Lane, 1884 Pa
cihc avenue. Severance and
Sanborn are at the Palace
Hotel, Frank M. Young of
Washington, Lanes secre-
tary, is at the St. Francis.
The arrival Yesterday of
J. C. Stubs. vice president
of the Hartman lines and
traffic director of the South
ern Pacific, the Union Pa
cifc, the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company
and the Oregon Short Line;
his secretary, r. F. Wilson,
and R. S. Lovett, the
Southern Pacific adviser in
New York, is significant, in
view of the fact that Lane viii open
his hearing this morning in the quar-
ters of the United States Circuit Court
| of Appeals in the Postoh1ce building.
Stubbs. who is accompanied by his
wife. is at the Palace Hotel He an
nounced that his trip was merely one
of pleasure: that he had come to the
town OF ruins. the very sight Of which
made his heart ache. to enjoy himself
for a brief period The shade OF the
palms of Cuba. the beckoning call OF
Florida. the majesty of Niagara. the al
Iurments of Europe We're nothing; he
had come to san Francisco to enjoy
himself. No conclusion was to be
drawn from the fact that his arrival
preceded by day the opening OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission IN
vestigation. nor from the fact that he
was the chief witness before the com
mission in Chicago and knows the ropes
at which the commission is tuggins.
sTUBBs BEARS MESSAGE
But it may be significant that before
the local officials OF the Southern Paci-
hc Company go before Commissioner
Lane to tell their story Stubbs will
have greeted them and Lovett will have
saIuted them. There are policies to be
conveyed to the San Francisco onaciaIs
OF the great corporation that may be Of
interest to them before they face the
inquisition. 1t is hard to convey such
policies by wire, by letter or by mes
! senger. So Stubs has come TO San
Francisco on a pleasure trip. Whether
his pleasure will be marred BY a sum
mons that he appear and give further
testimony cannot be foretold-
This is Lanes first VISIT to San Fran
cisco since his appointment to the high
once he now holds. He Is in good
health and delighted with the progress
Of the city toward reconstruction- But
his mind is entirely centered on ths
problems that confront him in his ON
cia1 capacity and he says he viii not
rest until a solution Of existing evils
is at hand.
sThe hearing OF local complaint will
begin tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
said Lane, and I hope to accomplish
much here. The first complaint to
receive consideration win be that OF
the jobbers and manufacturers who
charge that the railroads are collect
ing a toll of cents a ton on All freight
received here whether it comes over
the wharves Of the State or not The
state charges this toll when goods pass
over the wharves, but complaint is
made that the railroad company col