Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-12
From Washington.
( Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, Aug. IL.

tlCIRe9p01dence OF tne AleXhnOflh dtI6u8s
Washington, Aug. r.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today published decision In the case oil
the American Goal Company Of ALE
ghsny o., Mary land, against the Balti'
more and Ohio and the Western MsrJ
land Railroads. The decision was rem
dered by Com missioner Harlan and holds
that the defendants rates on big-vein
coal, from Georges Greek basin in Allie
gbany county 10 tidewateT, when going
over the piers to destinations outside the
Delaware and Chesapeake cspes, are IN
reasonable and unduly discriminatory
and ought not to exceed the rates con-
temporaneously 10 tffect on sna!l-veiu
coal from the same district and on Goals
+ ON the Meyersdale, Acknowledging
aud upper Potomac districts, 10 Penn
sylvsDis and West Virginia, when water
borne to the same destination. II Is also
held that the defendants rates on coal
mined In Georges Greek basin when
destined to points in New York, Penn
sylvanis, New Jersey and New England,
are unreasonable and discriminatory and
ought not to exceed the rates to the same
destinations from the Pennsylvania and
West Virginia fields. The fodings OF
the commission are made also to spply
to the rates from the Cumberland region
which includes The Elk Garden region.
1t ia claimed that the railroads have
been charging from 10 to rs cents ton
more for coal from these regions than
from the Pennsylvania aud West Vir-
ginta fields to points 10 NeV Jersey,
New York and New England. 1t Ia
also set forth that higher rates have
been charged from Georges Greek basin
to Washington than to Baltimore, al
though the haul to Washington IL
shorter than to Baltimore. the COM
mission says that these rates ought to be
readjusied.
Based upon official and unofficial re-
turns received up to this morning, which
cover practically The entire state, G. W.
Koiner, the present commissioner OF sg-
ricullure, is 1853 votes ahead OF John
Thompson Brown, of Bedford, though
both The candidates are claiming the
nominstion, which, 10 the present situa
ton of affairs, may require an official
count to determine. According to the
returns received up to this time, Judge
Mann leads Mr.. Tucker for governor BY
8. 464
The officials Of the Washington base'
ball club say there is no truth in tht
story from Reading, Pa, the effect
hat they would lose control Of
the local ball park next month and
~ould play off succeeding games 10
Reading,
Struck by the same train at the same
spot where his con was killed fourteen
sears ago, the body Of Joseph A. Bun
don, contractor of Washington, wa;
found this morning beside the tracks OF
the Baltimore and Ohio at Riverdsle,
Md hundred yards from his home
Orders will shortly be issued by the Treas
ury Department to all Of the collectors OF
internal revenue throughout the country
to make q report to the internal revenue
bureau OF the Treasury Department as to the
number. name s. places Of bu.iness, etc of all
corporations doing business in their districts
This is in anticipation, of course, Of putting
into effect the new corporation tax.