Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-27
HARTMAN, STUBS, SCHWElN
Understood Their Names Are
Mentioned but N. Y. Officials
Have No Information.
charged With Violation at Law on
shipments from orient through
san Francisco to Chicago.

san Francisco. C.g. s.as er-t.-
eorl.ns Go report u circulation hon.
H.N Indictments MORO Sound vsst-rday
ay '.e federal grand iu.g. aea.rrt fh.
Fae'H- Mail Steamship company and
tle southern Pacific crnuaur. fn
these .nlI.ment7 ths names of Ed
ward d. Hartman john g. stuob.
and E T.. sehWcu. it o. understood
are mentioned. Il. Indictments 3. 81.
said, embrace 100 counts. and rs.at.
particularly Coz violations az the Ist-
ou shipments from the orient through
the port of San Francisco to Chicago.
The particular instances Il which thr
law is said To- have been violated re-
/ late to shipments OF mating from Kobe
TO Chicago. these shipments being very
/ heavy and numerous during a consider
/ able number of months of the year. A
special agent Of the interstate commerce
l commission. Duncan, has been on tha
I Pacific coast for several months and
/ also lu Japan, investigating these ship
| Weuts and how the Pacific Mail and
| Southern Pacific have been making
| rates lower than th, published tariff
[ on them at various times. 10 is the
I making OF lower rate than the pub
I lshpd tariff on which the indictments
! have been based.
Southern Pacific officials arc said 90
have admitted last night that prior 90
| the enforcement of the new rate law.
they had not been strictly living up 20
the 80 day notice priysiou Of the law,
| because OF the impossib ilty of doing 50
and retain their share ot the oriental
| shipments 90 this country in compeu-
| uon with foreign lines. They insisted.
however. that since the new law has
| gone into CneCt they have not made
/ any lower rate than the published one
] and have not violated the law for TWO
I reasons. one is that the rates have been
l very steady iu the orient, and there has
] bepn 300 necessity tor making rates
other than those iu the puS
ushed tarn. The second reason Is
that as the commission now has the
I power 70 dispense with the 90 rays no-
tice whore an emergency rate is neces-
sary. all the carrier has 90 do now
I is TO lay the matter before the COM
mission and get % to authorize the
lower rate because of it's dispensing
| power. 10 Is expected thar the iudict-
/ monts will be filed in open court when
l the federal grand jury meets today.
/ This. 10 is claimed is The first time in
/ the history OF traus-Pacihc traffic
/ through this port that a federal grand
J Jury has ever made Indictments Tor Vio-
/ lau0ns OF the Interstate law.
/ OFFICIALS HAVE 40 NEWS.
New York sept 27.-Local officials
OF the Union Pacific and Pacific Mail
steamship company said today that
T they had no information as 10 the re-
ported finding of indictments against
Mr.. Hartman and other officials Of
the corporation for alleged rate viola
lions,
one or the legal representatives or
the Southern Pacific company express
ed the opinion that the trouble is pos
sibly revival of the old controversy
with the Interstate commerce commits
sion regarding foreign OF import rates
The law governing the publication or
such rates was amended Aug. g. 1906
subject 20 notifications by the COM
mission. There have been no violations
Of the law according 90 the Southern
Pacific officials, since the amendment
became effective
DIST. ATTY OFFICE MUM
san Francisco. Sept. 27.-No inform
alton could be obtained today az tho
| United States district attorneys Office
conhrmatory OF the report that +. H.
Hartman ana Other Southern Pacific
officials had been indicted for violations
OF the interstate commerce act The
| grand jury viii make ita report ~ 4
/ o'clock. and IL is expected that the
news VIII then be given out