The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-29
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Senate Subj Committee Continues In.
| vestigation Into Alleged Discrimi-s
1 nation Against Southern Ports In
the Matter Of Hauling Coal-ORer-.
ed to Build Coal Pier at Charleston.
| Charges that the Southern Railway
has been imposed upon much as the
New: Haven is said to have been
through the unloading upon 1t of
branches of little worth at fabulous
prices, added an unexpected feature
Wednesday to the Investigation
which Senate subcommittee is max
ling of alleged Determinations against
ISouthern ports in coal rates. s.
B. L. Dulaney of Bristol, Tenn IS
made the charges in connection with
an explanation of why he believed the
Morgan interests dominated the
Southern and directed the action of
its officials.
"Coal operators are robbed of their
right to do normal business, he
said. "Unless some relief be granted
it will be necessary for independent
operators to give up their efforts.
They can not meet such unfayorable
conditions - -
He testified he sold the Black
Mountain Railway, short line tap-
ping the Black Mountain coal field.
to the Virginia and Southwestern
Railway, under a contract with the
president of the latter line, H.AK.
McHarg, providing that the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad sc6uld
have the use Of the line. This was
done, the witness said, to preserve
two outlets to the south for his coal.
Mr.. McHarg failed to advise the
| Louisville and Nashville Of this
agreement, he added, and was very
angry when Mr.. Dulaney gave the
information. Rates have not been
arranged, Mr. Dulaney declared, So
the Louisville and Nashville can no.
move coal from the Black Mountain
field south Of east from MddIesboro,
condition barring Black Mountain
coal from the Southern field by way
| of the Louisville and Nashville.
A number Of similar statements
were introduced by Mr.. Dulaney in
support OF his contention that inter
locking directorates in New York die
| tate rates.
Proposals for an adequate coal pier
at Charleston, S. c., to provide in-
dependent mines in Virginia tide
water outlet have been blocked re-
peatedly by the Southern Railway,
according to B. L. Dulaney Of Brist
tol, Tenn, who continued his testi-
mony in the Senate investigation Of;
eastern coal rates. Dulaney chaEgeo
that the Southern's attitude was eH0sss
to "Coal Trust" influence.
Mr.. Dulaney, who owns mining
property in the Black Mountain fields
of Virginia, said, although coal rates
to Charleston were not prohibitive,
there were no facilities for hauling It.
He testified that he repeatedly offer
ed to raise 100000 for coal pier
for the Southern Railway. President
W W. Finley seemed friendly to the.
pier proposition, he continued, but
after Mr.. Finley's death officials Of
the Southern seemed unfriendly to
Charleston outlet. In respons> to-
questions Mr.. Dulaney said he made
the offer to construct a pier in good
faith and still is prepared to carry It
out.
Further discussing Southern Rail-
way affairs Mr.. Dulaney declared
some af. the roads methods OF ac-.s
curing branch lines were comparable
to transactions with the now famous
transactions of the New Haven. THE
deals show how millionaires are
made" said the witness.
! This declaration drew a. voliey OF
questions from members Of the COM
mittee, and in reply Mr.. Dulaney;
cited the sale of the Virginia and
Southwestern Railway to the South
ern by H. G. McSarg at an alleged
profit of s4,000,000. The line orig
inai,y was owned, the witness said, by
company with which he was con-;
Injected. He offered a majority of the
stock against bonds amounting TO-
100000 were outstanding to the
| Southern for S5e0,000. Later the
Southern bought it of McHarg, Du-
Ilaney said, for approximately S6,ooe,-
900 .
Edwin J. Berwind's alleged actiVi-
ties in sitting the Black Mountain
mines were further discussed. Mines
controlled by the Berwind company
are located in the Pennsylvania,
Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk
and Western railways, with all OF
which. the witness said, Mr.. Berwlnd
has great influence through financial
connections.
In support of his charge that the
l Black Mountain suffers from discr1mf-
nation in coal rates Mr.. Dulaney pre-
seated rate schedules showing the
charge from Ohio River points to
I New Orleans to be S1.25 per ton,
while that from the Appalachian
mines in Virginia to tidewater, q
much shorter haul, is s1.4O per ton.
He said the original tidewater rate
in the latter case was about 81 q
= ton, but gradually had been increas-
ed. The Norfolk and Western owns
extensive tracts of coal land, Mr.. Du-
laney said, and is directly intedested
e in shutting the coal from independ-
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