Show W WILL tL SOON Bf STARTED I Commissioner West Vest Western Vestern ern em Trip Has Excited Gov Government Govel el Officials Special to The Herald Washington Oct 5 The Washington Tunes rimes today says sas By far the most sensational disclosures yet made in investigations by the inter interstate interstate interState state commerce com erce are those which concern the relations of the Union Pacific railroad to the coal lands in hi its territory There is most excellent author ity for the statement that two important departments of the government very soon will be busy in further urther Inquiry Into these conditions con These are the interior depart department department ment which is concerned with revelations about the Union methods of get getting getting getting ting control of rich coal land and the department of justice which will have Its attention called to violations of the anti antitrust antitrust antitrust trust law and the interstate commerce act I Commissioner Prouty Prout who conducted examinations in Omaha Denver and Salt Lake City is expected back in Washing Washington ton in a few days when he will make a preliminary report on his work which will probably be made the basis from which to start further and more specific inquiries Wholesale Infraction of Law Looking for violations of the inter interstate interstate interstate state law the Ule commission has tumbled stumbled upon what s considered the most startling evidence of wholesale in infraction infraction infraction fraction of both the land laws and the antitrust act net In line Une with the presidents policy of prosecuting frauds against the public it is expected these schemes will bs b investigated in the utmost detail It Itis Itis ItIs is pointed out that these Union Uni n Pacific revelations get much m ch nearer to the chief executive officers of the railroad than did dill tho t th amazing disclosures of graft In the relations of the Pennsylvania road to its coal business and that the Union Pacific revelations will drag in magnates of the first calibre There is an intimation that still fur further further further ther inquiry will be made in which the tue affairs of the Colorado Fuel Iron company the Utah Fuel company and other big concerns of the mountain country will get attention Monopoly M Charged These investigations have developed the fact that the fuel supply of an im mi immense Immense mense section of country Is practically monopolized by the Harriman system It has secured control of coal lands ac according according according cording to the testimony by fraudulent methods which included the employment of subsidiary s companies whose stock was owned by the thc railroad company and whose as well as other persons were secured to file on coal oal lands and then turn them over to subsidiary con concerns concerns concerns cerns When Then it could not get control of coal lands the Union Pacific would deny den switching facilities to independent inde oper operators operators operators or If they secured these would keep them from getting cars It IV has also been charged that the railroad company practically ll fixes the price of coal in cities along its lines and that these are made outrageously high |