Show COMMISSION CHARGES FRAUD AND PERJURY WASHINGTON ASIU April 20 The O-The The Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state Commerce commission sion today for- for warned n to the thc Senate tl reports of s 's ti marie made by bv its Ht agents regarding di discriminations tiun of f railroads in in transporting transporting trans trans- porting coal in m the States of Colorado Utah and Nebraska The conclusion is awn di-awn that the time Utah Fuel company and the Pleasant Valley VaHey Coal ConI company of Utah both controlled con con- trolled l 1 by the De Denver Deer er Rio Grande GranIe Railway company of the Gould system have e secured lar large e tracts of land by securing the of persons persona who ho have entered the lands s for or small AmaH from 50 50 to sumo Rum rally gene ranging 1 Many of these are said to be bc women who do 10 not appreciate te th the olT the they are committing com coin in allowing themselves to be he thus used It i i is charged that time the Pleasant ant Vallot Val Yal- lot loV e Coal com company pan has acquired acres t ret of land and amid it is asserted that the acquisition of much uch of ot it has been hen and It is attended by fraud perjury a asserted that time the fib Hio Gran Grande e railroad system has hns granted special ll rates to th these se companies The Time Colorado Fuel and Iron company company- has received special rates from front a railroad company which is controlled l by it ii- This Thi company the time report fit states a bus lius deda declared red no dividends in recent years hut but it is suggested ted that thata a a a different method of bookkeeping would show substantial r earnings It Itis Itis is charged in tho time Oklahoma report that exorbitant prices arc are charged to lo domestic domestic do do- m tic consumers by y the tho leasers of ot the time mines mine Most ost of the railroads s mine coal for their own purposes Sp Speaking 0 01 of tIme the coal mined along the Union Pacific in l e Nebraska and i Wyoming it is is found that while the time officials of of- I If f finals l. l nl of that road are arc not directly I interested in the mines that company a dot s dors s dominate the mining transportation ti on and sale of coal along it its line linC It also char charged ed that tho time company resorts TO ar various ous methods to prevent pre the time opening of ne new III mines alon along its route and the conclusion is IS drawn that if the time public coal roal lands should I be beith withdrawn ith rawn the effect would be he to intensify and perpetuate the coin coin- pans pan's s 's monopoly |