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Show E0E DISCMMINATION The (jr. B. Railroad Is On Trial for Violating the Interstate Law. FIRST OF A SERIES OF CASES. The Charse Ia that ta 1SOO the Road. Gave Certain (Shippers Re. dared Rates on Corn From Several Sev-eral Nebraska Points to Chicago The Testimony of "Witnesses Began in the I'nited States Court this Morninc- Chicago, Nov. 22. The first of a series ot trials of the commercial and railway mag. nates for the violation of the anti-discrimination clause of the inter-state commerce law began , in the United States court here this morning. The defendant is Thomas Miller and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad on which the alleged discrimination dis-crimination was practiced is made - co-re. spondent. The charge is that during tho summer of 1890 the defendant gave A. H. Warren fe Co. and Wvight & Hoy, Nebraska, shippers, reduced rates on corn from Addison, Addi-son, Ashland and Red Cloud to Chicago. -The first witness, T. A. Wright, of Wright & Hoy. As soon as a vital question was struck tho trial- hit a snag. The court instructed the witness that he need not answer any question ques-tion which would tend to incriminate him- , self. This practically barred all valuable infor ma tion from the witness, as it did from Ho; and other witnesses who followed. So tha district attorney gave up the fight and the court ordered the jury to bring in a verdick. of acquittal. The district attorney then dismissed the cases against the other defendants, except Spriggs, and that was continued. |