Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-02-05

modern industrial system. and extreme care would have Co be taken not to interfere with the business in doing away with the bucket shop type of operation. We should study both the successes and failures of foreign legis. lntors who notably in Germany have worked along this line, SO as not Co do anything harmful. Moreover there is special difficulty in dealing with this matter by the federal government in federal republic like ours. But if it is possible tu devise n way to deal with it. the effort should be made, even if only in cautious and tentative way. lt would seem that the federal govern mcnt could at least act by forbjdding the use of the mails, telegraph, and ! telephone wires for mere gambling in s,orks and futures just as it does in ! lottery transactions.
 enclose herewith Il statement issued by the chief of the bureaus:
 Bureau of Corporations (Appendix | D--ln answer to certain statements, | (which also cnclosc) made by and on 1 behalf of the agents of the Standard oil corporations, Appendix 9 and a l dix D containing an answer to certain statements. also enclosed, made by the | president of the Santa Fo railroad, | (Appcndix D. The Standard oil cor poration and the railroad company have both been found guilty by the courts of criminal misconduct; both | have been sentenced to pay ncavy fines and have issued and published broad. east these statements asserting their innocence. and announcing as improp. or the action of the courts and iurics in convicting them of guilt.
 | These statements are very elaborate and are very ingenious and are uutruth. ful in import. and the particulars. | The following letter and enclosure from Mr. Henry. sufficiently Illustrates the methods of the high officials of the Santa Fc and show the utter falsity of their pea of ignorance, the plea of the Standard Oil O., being equally without foundations:
 "Dcpartmcnt of Justice, Office of thc District Attorney, District of Oregon.
 "Portland Ore. Jan. lith, 1908. "Thc President, Washington. n. C.
 "Dcar Mir. President; --I understand that Ripley of the Atchison. Topeka and santa Fc railway system, has com. mcntcd with severity upon your atti. tude toward the payment of rebates by certain transcontinental railroads and that he has declared that ne personally never knew anything about rebates be. ing granted by his road.
 "I enclose you herewith copy of q letter from Mir. Edward Chambers general freight traffic manager of the santa Fc. to Mr. q. A. Davidson. audi. tor of the same company dated Feb, o7 1gO7
 "This letter does not deal with in. terstate shipments, but the constitu. tion of California makes the paymen, of rebates by railroads felony, and NIT. Ripley has apparently been above the commission of crime to secure busi ness. You are at liberty to use tais enclosure in any way that you think i, can be of service to yourself or the | pubIjc
 "Sincercly your,
 "fRANCIS !. HENEY. '
 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. :, 1907 Dear Sir; l hand you herewith n file Of papers covering the movement of q shipment of fuel oil shippel by the associated oil company over our line from Jan. |, 1906 up to and in cluding November l5, 1906.
 "We agreed with the Associated Oil Co. 's negotiations, with Mir. Ripley NIT. Wells and myself, that in consider alton of their making us special prices on oil for company use, which is GOV. cred by contract and further con, sideration that we would take certain quantity, they would in turn ship from Bakcrsheld over our line to San Fran. cisco Bay points n certain minimum number of barrels of fuel oil at rate Of twenty-five cents per barrel from Bakersfield, exclusive of the switching charges.
 'These statements cover the move. ment except that they have included Stockton which is not correct, as il IS not Bay point and could not be reached as conveniently by water. We have paid them on account of this *I,239, which should be deducted from the total of movement shown in the at. tached papers.
 VI wish you would arrange to make up statement, cheek the same and re. fund to the Associated Oil company down to the basis of twenty. five cents per barrel from Bakersfield where they are shippers, regardless of who is con. signee, as all their fuel oil is sold de. iiVered. The reason for making this deal, in addition to what I have stated. IS that the Associated oil company have their own boats and carry oil from fields controlled by themselves along the coast near San Luis Obispo to San Francisco at much lower cost than the special rate we have made them in competition with the Union Oil company and the Standard oil company it was necessary for them to se'I at the san Francisco bay points on the basis of the cost of water trans. pOTtatiOn from the eoaaf GaId. rl ...