Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-10
COMMISSIONERS CONCLUDE CHI.
cAeo HEARING ON DlscRlm.
NATION CHARGES.
RAIL OFFICERS CALLED
TO GIVE TEsTlMoNw
Admit Companies Arc Interested in
Iowa and IlIinoi. Coal Lands, But.
Deny Giving Special Rates to Fav.
or'd one'7Hearins to 3. Resumed
in st. Louis.

| Chicago, July 10.-The hearing be-,
lore the Interstate commerce commis-
sion on the relationship between the
| railroads and coal properties was con.
cluded yesterday so far as Chicago is
concerned after having demonstrated
the ownership of coal mines or coal;
lands in this or other states by the
Big Four, Santa Fe and Burlington
roads in addition to those brought out
in the previous days testimony The
hearing will be resumed along the
same lines in st. Louis on Monday.
where, it Is stated, that some sensa.
tional evidence bearing on the prac-
teal effect of railroad control on the
coal business will be produced. The
hearing was presided over by Com.
missioner Clask, the examination Of
witnesses being conducted by Eldou
j. Cassoday and Rush c. Butler, sre-
cial attorneys appointed by the cons
mission for the purposes Of this in-
vestigation.
Additions to the list Of railroad men
in the Dering Coal Company. which
is controlled by the Rock Island were
read into the record by Joseph e,
Hit, assistant to the president of the
Dering company, who produced list
of bondholders, including William B.
Mckinley. president Of the Illinois
traction system; A. F. Banks, president
of the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Rail-
way; f. E. Learned, traffic manager Of
of the same road; K. X. Knapp, attor-.
ney; j. A. Spoor. president Of the Chic
cago Junction railway; w. e. Corey,
president of the United States Steel,
Corporation; B. L. Winchell, president
of the Rock Island railway; John F.
Stevens, until recently vice president
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railway. and w. n. Lyford,
general counsel Of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois railway. He also un.
derstood that B. F. Yoakum formerly
held $4,000 of the bonds which had
been transferred to the Rock Island.
One of the effects of railroad control
| was explained by Henry P. Pope OF the
George G. Pope Coal Company OF Chs
cago, who declared that since the roads
had acquired coal mines in this vicinity
| they had instituted a reconsignment
charge of 50 car, which had worked
a hardship on Independent operators.
Formerly. he said, it had been the
custom to bill car of coal to the com.
pany at Chicago and then rebill 1t ia
the customer. Now, unless the oper~
ator wanted to make public who his
customers were he had to pay the res
consignment charge.
| Richard Fitzgerald, vice president OF
the Chicago junction Railway, said he
personally owned the stock and bonds
of the Grant Coal Mining Company 81
| Burnett, Ind, but that not a pound Of
the output was ever sold to the raila
I way.
w. T. Abbott, general attorney Of tho
Southern Indiana and Illinois Southern
roads, testified for the Walsh proper-
ties, saying that the ownership Of the
coal properties had been completely ra-
moved from the control Of the road.
w. L. Barnes, superintendent OF
transportation of the Burlington, said
the road owns coal land in this state
and mine near Abba, Iowa, but prac.
tically the entire output Of the mine
was used by the railroad.
Strict orders against the holding OF
stock in coal mines along the road by
officers, agents or employees have been
issued by President Ripley, of the
Santa Fe, according to w. e. Bailey,
general auditor. He admitted the road
owned stock in a certain coal company
j. j. O'Gara, of the OGara Coal
Company, Chicago, denied that the
company had received private rata
from the railroads.
Francis S. Peabody testified for tho
Peabody Coal Company, saying that II
controlled the Chicago and Illinois
Midland road and the Illinois Midland
Coal Company, and that road got di,
vision of Is cents Of the rate to Chic
cago.