Show ARC RGE RAILROADS IT REBATING TO STEEL CONCERNS I I I ii Nov M 2 it It became yesterday that the interstate I nerce commission has quietly been acting an extended investigation on and special which are alleged to be made 13 in m favor of the United el corporation and some of its aries is by railroads which trans trans- rn ore from ports on the great fi lats of a dozen railroads came for or a conference with Commis Commis- r ane who has bas been directing pies Ss president of the J. J H Reed Beed president of semer Lake Erie rie J. J H. H e elt general counsel for the New ew I I a O St St. Louis Nickel 5 and F. F Dalny vi vice vice- vice vice- ept ent of the Lake Shore l Iichi Michigan n I era ern headed the dele delegation roads are under indictment f ted d with violating the Elkins I law lw w Jt gb a discrimination r r and r Conn Conneaut g E aut in t. t dock O. O kb by charges which fl h rov government alleges that more than Q was rebated by the B Bessemer mer to Carnegie Steel company compan between n kry ry 1908 and July 1909 and by the Pennsylvania is also alleged ve ye ve rebated to subsidiary antes nIes of the Steel Stee corporation certain governments government's 7 practices f investigators i and gac customs 0 allege lef in handling andling of iron ore at lake docks the appearance of discrimination Ii In of large shippers The railroad 18 declared that if it Vals any violations wit wk existed they were technical and I. l s agents have reported certain railroads nave have paid aid excessive to docking companies for handling that the docking companies rebated to steel companies and that hole thole transaction constitutes constitute a viola viola- Elkins law the case of the Bessemer It Is al- al that 25 5 cents a ton was charged andling ore and that 17 cents centa was was' protest that was an ant transaction t and that the rebates made mad to all shippers large and alike aUke because it was found that irel rc r could Q be handled much cheaper atthe published tariff department of justice expects to the the- form of rebating popular e ata alj ears ago has practically ceased has been succeeded in these cases sejal concessions to favored ship ship- the medium of terminal acts The government in this case ease Won on the section of the law which tits Its any privileges r or facilities other hose bose specified in the published s |