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Show DAMAGING TESTIMONY j AGAINST TIE SANTA Ft Refund of Immense Sum lo Favored Shipper Is Clearly 1 Admitted. . i LOS AXGELHS. Cal.. April S. That the Santa Fo Railroad company- gave refunds amounting to almost. ."rSS.OUO to tho Associated Oil company last jiiiii-mer jiiiii-mer on freight, paid for shipments of oil in lOOt. was admitted today by Edward Ed-ward Chambers, assistant freight batik manager of the road, in the hearing before be-fore tho Statu railroad commission. This is the refund referred to in a message of President dtnosevclr to Con; grcss last, .fjuiuarv. in which the President Presi-dent quoted a portion of Air. Chambers's Cham-bers's letter authorizing tho refund. (hi .hum 10, 1007. a refund of ?.'J0.-750.50 ?.'J0.-750.50 was made to the Associated Oil company in addition lo $72:10 that had been previously paid hack to the company. com-pany. This was on all shipments from the Bnltorsfield district to San Francisco Fran-cisco bay points between January T. and November lo, 1000. During that time the Associated Oil company had a rate of 25 cents a barrel bar-rel on fuel oil from Bakersficld to San Francisco, when the published rate was ."7.6" cuts, (toneral Manager Porter of the Associated Oil company desired the rale kept toeerl. but tins President Ripley Rip-ley refused lo allow, according to Mr. Chambers, aud it was .linallv aoolishod. |