| Show RAILROAD MEN PLACED ON RACK Kansas I City Mo 10 Jan 9 The Inter Interstate InterState state commerce committee whose holo members arrived on an early train Iraln from ruin Chicago began Us its Is Investigation of ot eastbound grain rates rateD from Kansas City CI thIs thin forenoon Time The will wi It Is hi believed be confined to look looking ing Into Illo the thu charge that freight rules mateS mateSon Ilet on grain and grain products product train ruin rol west era en points point to tho the Atlantic seaboard are being bellg cut In violation of t the W v P 1 Trickett head of or the tho Kansas City Transportation Tran bureau b NIU the witness said paid tho the arbitrary proportional and differential grain rates aa as IS they cb ab abtam tain tam on goods shipped from rota Kansas City CI east cast place Kansas I City CIti at t a 1 advantage He lie le said raId tint the tha through gh grain lines which were the Santa Bunta Fe Pe Missouri Pacific and amid Hoole Island land each ch had hM special grain representatives In th tl person of or certain grain firms anti and that these thele linns could afford to pay n ii higher rate mate than other othel grain grin men as they lucy UI un undoubtedly receive concessions from tIme the th railroads Such a n system he ho said had hud been In lit II since about 1890 18 G and nd It lied had bal destroyed competition This tile he at tempted to show by saying tha thai In II 18 the Kansas City CI market handled 14 per Pr cent of ot the Kansas wheat crop while In 1896 It had hal handled but 25 24 4 per Ier percent cent despite time the fact fuet that tho time 1890 ma crop crall was tho the larger bigot of the two Time The receipt t had bad decreased since the hue operation opera ton of r tIme Uie larger firms on time the tie through brought lines Their operations became apparent If I the establishment of ot grain cHic clOe rates on all ni lines except tho the Union Pa Pacific a J A of ot hull Hall lal anti ol grain commission merchants firm Irm Mr MI had testified was WUl the tho ito representative lucre here of or tho time Missouri Ml orl Pi ls cilia railroad was wal questioned as us to the tite records record of business hem eon his firm and the tho Missouri mil mail milway 1111 way but would not nut admit that there ther were wen any such uch records available While other othel flintS 1118 than his hind had elevators tor along the lie tle lIne lino Ino of ct the Missouri Pacific he ad admitted that they did II not do nn an ni export business and saul said that his firm ex cx experienced fX practically no competition tram from toni them Ills His Hl firm had never neet ho hI de iii declared claret received r money noney for tor rebates r or as a 1 concession from time the or from tram any nn other source directly or fr Indi Indirectly doming the past three years year His Is firm Ilm he said hell held a definite and amud not noi Il an anel elastic clastic el rate with the Missouri Pae re Mr Robinson admitted however that W C Smith RUth freight traffic man manager tiger ager of or the Missouri Pacific made hint him hima hin a I private tate mate tatt on export grain to lo Ne Nf c v Orleans Orleane from 3 to 6 S cents conta lower than the published export tariff Oliver Olver Denton D n a 1 grain grall merchant of I Leavenworth Kansas would I U It t admit he lie wan tan time the coun country country try representative of the time Missouri Pa Pacific Il chile Ills Hla Is firm Irl he sold said sid had m d never r re received reo money mn rebates and anti other con concessions cessions from rein time the tie railroad directly or Indirectly Krcs Fres I res Hoose local alive of Richardson 8 Company of ot Was as tho timo nest next witness Mr Trickett tied testified that this Ihl firm was ns the representative of or the he Santa Fe railway and all Mr Hoose lOORe was ivas asked If I there were a fact Ho Be 10 declared d he ho did Ild not now m ss have havo any nn Intimation of or any an arrange mont ment by which his hula firm Orm receive 1 any special advantage or conc lon front from that railway ho imo admitted that If It I two million milon of at grain rain ml lad by hy his firm Orm In Kansas City during the past paRt year the tho Santa SOlta Po Ic received nil all nl but bum 0 oo bushels Hut 11 thin was simply tx be I because cause grain country tho hit Santa Ranta Fo Fe ran better boier |
