The Washington times., 1907-02-17
Battle of Giants Over the
Idaho Federal Judge
ship.
Smelter Trust Said to Die
tate Railway
Rates.
independent Lead Men
Struggling for Their
Existence.

Existence.
The question as to whom President
Roosevelt shall appoint Federal Judge
Of Idaho TO succeed Judge Beatty, who
January % announced he would resign,
10 take effect March /. nominally a local
issue, has developed into national i'm
portance, with the hartman railroad
dynasty and the GuEgenheim smeltcr
trust-of which Senator-elect Simon
GuggeHheim of Colorado has been the
dominant factor-as the principals in
tho game Of politics.
As soon az Judge Beatty announced
that he would resign, eight candidates
appeared, and Senator Hepburn of
Idaho Republican, was besieged by
IdahOans to take a hand in the con-
test. The eight were +. S. Dietrich. Of
Pocatello, local counsel there for the
Hartman railroad interests; J. F. All
SHE. OF Grangevilie: G. w Besle. OF
Wallace Caleb Jones, Of ST. Anthony;
Warren Truitt, Of Moscow; former Rep
resentative Edgar Wilson, N NJ Ruick.
United States attorney, and Littleton
Price, Of Boise
on Friday John p. Gray. coun-
sci for the Federal Mining and SmeIt-
ing Company. which is the Guggenheim
smeltcr trust appeared in Washington
and began 20 line up matters for All
SHE.
Thus the contest stood until yesterday,
when 1t was asserted that the whole
fight is sham and that the naming Of
either Ailshie or Dietrich would be O.
Victory for the Guggenheims, who under
he circumstances were fortified to
catch EN- a-goin' and a-coming'."
Trust Dictates Rates"
The new matter is the allegation that
in all traffic pertaining TO the shipment
and reduction Of ores-copper, lead, gold.
and silver-the Guggenheims and their
smelter trust absolutely dictate all rates
20 both the Hartman and HiU-Morgan
roadside Union Pacific, Central Pa
cihc, Southern Pacific. Oregon Short
Line. Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company, Northern Pacific. Great
Northern and Burlington-that so abso-
lutte is the hold Of the Guggenhelms on
the presumably dictatorial Hartman
and Hill railroad kings, that every rate
for ore shipments on their extensive
systems is made by SiIas EccIes. whose
business home is Il Broadway. New
York, where he is traffic manager and
vice president Of the Federal Mining
and Smelling Company.
II is said that Isl" Eccles. as miners
know him. works under an agreement
between the roads and the smelling
trust
The smelling trust really is Up 10 this
time only a trust " part The indie
pendents have for many years fought
the Guggenheims.
The method Of shipment Of ore. as
commonly practiced, IS TO deliver II To
the smelter company, which itself paws
the combined freight and treatment rate.
in turn reimbursing the common car
rier, and thus getting the control Of the
smelling. This is referred 10 in traffic
circles as THE combined rate" and II
is alleged that, not only does the smeIter
trust control the shipments of nearly
all ore In. the United States. but that
rebates Of s. a ton were demanded by
the trust UP to a short time ago. and
that even when a sidetrack Is asked for
by an independent mining company.
often the railroad manager refuses.
Some Observers even went so far as
TO assert that the apparent fight be-
tween Ailsiie and Dietrich is really. only
a sham battle. and that, because Of the
hard and fast traffic arrangement of
the smelter people with Hill Morgan and
Hartman, sither OF the two leading
candidates If appointed would be a vic
tory for the Guggenheims.
Hepburn Non-Committal.
Allegations have been teIegraphed
from Washington to Boise. the capitaI
Of Idaho, that SenStor Hepburn may
recommend DietricJ, the Hartman
lawyer, and claims have been made in
the East that Senator Heyburn's reso-
luton for a Senatorial investigation in
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany. a Hill-Morgan road. was insti-
gated Oy Hartman as a retaliation
against Hill-Morgan for furnishing to
the Government evidence in the recent
inquiry by the Interstate Commerce
Commission into the Hartman system
This latter allegation has been taken
COgnizance Of by the Interstate Com
merCe Commission and also by other
officials who viii have to do with the
Northern Pacific investigation as to the
claims of minority stockholders that
they were frozen out by Morgan when
the Northern Pacific was reorganized.
Senator Hepburn waits for the hear
ing before the Senate Committee on Pa
Cific Roads, and says that at that time
the significance of his resolution will be
made clear. Meanwhile he maintains
silence as to whom he win recommend