| Show UNION PACIFIC CHARGED WITH DISCRIMINATION Lincoln loncoln Dole Dec 16 Acting as a a special p pe cial examiner for the Interstate oom merce commission John II U Marble Murble today to today toda day da hold held an allday hearing burin on cot th the complaint of ot the Nebraska state roll rail railway way commission alleging that the Union ny U Is gull guil guilty gutsy ty t of at discrimination In that It U char charges eon ll more tore for tor coal hauled from Ita its mines milieu In III Wyoming to o Nebraska points iiii Ill Ii It does doe to o towns In Kansas a IL similar distance from the mutes mines The railroad company com pan elected to make mako Ita its defense wholly on the of lion which It claimed was wa justifiable but out Examiner 1 Marble permitted the In Inquiry Inquiry Ind to take a 1 wide range going Into d the quest question on of oC reasonableness of rate rates and short and n e hauls Mull Hate Rate Expert Powell of the Nebraska commission was wa the chief witness and he testified that from tho the Union 1 Ia n t erfle annual report port It U was waa shown show n that the cost coM to the company at of con coal cOll I laid laia down In Nebraska was waa 1 I U a ton tan Attorney At AL Attorney torney tomey for the tb road disputed the lilt urea ura but offered no specific evidence li In rebuttal Mr Powell said Bald he found U tit the road owned In atouk alook and In bond bons of ot the Union na oute C Ci al company and nd that t Its Ita Income from the thu n holding holdings lust year was Mr Me II Powell Pow 11 alleged that the Union 1 while upon u 1011 a charge that netted It a II revenue per ton mile of ol over nine mil from Wyoming points to Omalia Omaha was wag wa content to haul sugar kupar from c lorado point points to o Omaha for 71 7 milli per ton too mile and from Colorado to o Kansas lian City for tor 66 06 mill mills Sugar Lugar In Is I worth north a Ii ton while coal eoal It h worth In hi I ih the local market but Im ts t l higher Large duj being baIng put Iut upon the team I commodity On Qu tho It ut of discrimination Mr scud iid Id that Ihla 1 the fart flU t that could Lul haul baul nearly tlc tales t as e much mc In Ir l e pI et i taka ask aau as In l Kansas owing to tb Ih flits grades grade grad the tha road r is s revenue per nn m n nl I In III Kr teI t w t c Kansas the revenue per ton mile mUe In Kansas being if 8 mills mill while willie In Ne bricks It U Is ls 10 1070 It mUle mills kir lr Marble h concluded tb the UMI hearing rl It to nl hi and wl will the record cord to the at t Wi hington ton I |
