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Show ITCARTHY PROVES RED-HOT STUPE Suggests That State Offer a Bounty on Every Ton of Coal Mined to Encourage Industry. The placing of an embargo on coal and preventing the railroads from carrying car-rying coal outside the State during times of shortage was the remedy for existing conditions suggested by William Will-iam S. McCarthy, freight traffic manager man-ager of the Salt Lake Hardware com- Eany, in testifying before the joint legislative committee appointed to investigate the present coal shortage in 1'tah. j The right to enforce the embargo, he declared, should be left to the dis-; cretion of the Governor. He further; declared that he believed freight rates were too high, and that in many ways Salt Lake City was discriminated against. He gave instances which he declared occurred every day. Familiar With Rates. On cross-examination. Mr. McCarthy showed himself perfectly familiar with railroad conditions, and succeeded in tangling Attorney E. M. Allison, Jr., counsel for the Rio Grande WTestern. Railroad company. When asked what he would have done if a railroad over its own tracks with its own cars and men, tried to move coal out of tho State, the witness' wit-ness' quick reply was that the militia should be called out and the trainu stopped, the same as the State would stop a trainload of smallpox patients; coming into the State. The witness declared that "there is more- coal being shipped to Montana' than should be done in consideration of the existing conditions. Suggests a Bounty. McCarthy said that the output was restricted, and that the State could, offer encouragement by providing a bounty on each ton of coal mined. This he declared would encourage imlepenj dent operators. In regard to alleged discrimina-j tions against Salt Lake jobbers, Mr McCarthy said that a St. Louis merj ehant could, for instance, ship hard-! ware to Manti or other Utah towns all a rate of $2.40 a hundred poundsl while it cost Salt Lake jobbers td bring the goods here from St. Louis and reship to Manti $2.60 a hundred, He explained this by saying that both the St. Louis jobber and his concern received the same rate, $2.20. from thj Mississippi river to Salt Lake. Herel however, the St.- Louis man received an arbitrary rate of 20 cents to Manti and the Salt Lake firm had to pay the regular card rate of 40 cents. I The witness declared that he thought present coal rates excessive and that a rate of a cent a ton a mile would by good profit to the roads. He declared that SliTo a ton from Castle Gate is: being charged for a haul. of 110 milea. He declared that it should be. $1.10 ton. The witness snid fte favored some tribunal before which shippers could state their grievances, but was not sure that a railroad commission would be the proper thing. j The committee will hold an cxceij-tive cxceij-tive session Monday morning. j |