The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-22

worR uron recent N the communica
tior rrcm the house of representatives.
for information hearing upou tAe sub
icct. lie has not vet made reply to
s. j. r. No 10. by Mr. Dcaton. but
much Of the information required in
that resolution is contained in his
communication To the house. hut in n
few days he expects to supplement
the information already furnished by
a special report covering those ques-
tions Of difference between the two
resolutions
In the voluminous report submitted
by Mr.. Denman, he has covered the
relations between the Hooking Val
ley Railway company and the paral.
lei and comretiDg railroads from
their incorporation, or reorganization
to the present time; the relations be-
tween the Hooking Valley Railway
company ard "The Trunk Line Syn.
diCate;" the relations between the
Hooking Valley Railway company and
the Middle States Construction com
pany, through the securities of which
II controlled the Toledo & Ohio Cen
tral Railway; the varoua relations
combinations and ramlfcations of the
coal companies owned and controlled
by the Hooking Valley; the invest.
ments of the railway company In
coal properties and advancements to
coal companies; the bond guarantees
for coal companies by the railway
company; the discrimination by the
railway company in furnishing of
track connections 10 independent
coal produccrs discrimination in
freight rates upon coal produced upon
it's line in favor of coal of West Vir.
gina: reciting the various actions in
the courts against tho railway com.
pany for these several violations.
The attorney general has retraced
the familiar steps Of the Hooking
Valley Railway company in taking
control of its parallel and competing
lines, thereby establishing monop-
oily IN what Is known as the Hooking
coal fields, embracing number OF
counties in southeastern Ohio, and
also the complicated actions of the
railway company in attempting TO es.
tablish n monopoly in tho coal trade
by acquiring Control through stock
ownership of number of coal com
panies in the Hccking Valley and in
West Virginia, which have since been
consolidated under and operated by
the Sunday Creek company. whose
stock is all owned by the Hooking
Valley Railway compan. The report
lis very luminous exposition OF
these various practices, involving as
they do !. p. Morgan G. Company as
reorganization managers and bene.
iiciaries of these various schemes.
Competition stiHed.
The rcrort of the attorney general
shows, and In that respect corrob.
crates the report OF the Interstate
commerce commission, that upon the
reorganization Of the Hooking Valley
Railway company the plans we're de.
libcrately laid to gtife competition
with that line by the setting aside Of
sufficient securities of the railroad
company to acquire control OF. its
competitors, which plans were fully
carried out, as the record discloses,
and, as the attorney general re
marks, "thereupop and thereafter all
competition between these railway
companies was suppressed aud de-
stroyed" The record shows that the
Hooking Valley itself, after II had
secured control Of its competitors
J was controlled by "The Trunk Line
Syndicate" This was accomplished
by a majority ownership Of the com
mon stock of the Hooking Valley b,
the Baltimore G. Ohio, the New Yorl
Central, the Pennsylvania, the G. &
O. and the Erie
Tho report also shows the inter-re
lationships existing between these
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