Show SAYS ELKINS SQUEEZED HIM OUT OF BUSINESS Operations of Or Coil Coa I I Road in itt WeM tet I Virginia Vir iii IllIla I- I ginia glida llIla Before Cum Com 1111 Commission Washington AJril 2 25 Tho Tho Tho j s. n if n ra Jn thu hu I i ir II t V- V 1 J l before d thc tho W com commerce corn I merce commission today investigating the coal coat and amI oil Industries Indu of or the lie th country in tn compliance with congressional congressional congre 1 resolution Several Independent coal operators from V West Vest t Virginia testified a as to the tho situation In III that territory A. A 4 C C. Fulmar an operator tor at Mor Moi- testified that hat Senator S Elkins had hind squeezed him out of ot the coal business Mr Ir Fulmar related how as ns president president president dent of or the A. A C. C Fulmar Coal com corn company pany he had hac leased a mine from George C C. principal owner of the Morgantown une and railroad rail rill road toad a branch road leading from th Baltimore and Ohio at Morgantown l and from which a spur ran to Fulmars Fulmar's Fulmars Fulmar's Fulmars Fulmar's Ful Ful- mars mar's mine After he had started his mine he said the tho I II bought houghl the road anti and opened up UI mines further up the he branch anch atu and in the Immediate ImmedI te vicinity of oC his hL Fulmars Fulmar's mine Davis Davia Elkins son of oC Senator Elkins became president of or the tho Morgantown ane and Kingwood road Shortly after the thu took control the road refused i to furnish him with coal c cars while I furnishing their own mines or OJ to tn bring cars cals to mine e from the I Baltimore anc and Ohio Wasn't that hat because tho tile railroad refused to ride down the th spur spul on loaded cars saying the road was dangerous dangerous' asked Senator Sena Falkner Falk Falk- ner rier Yes sir h was the response after Senator Elkins became o rel of the I load ond not before How do you yon I know now he be owns o the road Docs Does Not the Western Virginia Coal company own it I have o often heard him say so He said Eald he ho bought It and time and again refused to lo sell It to the ane and Ohio continued by declaring that If It the railroad had hue furnished him cars cars ho lie believed he lie would have ha TIde ir per ler annum out of ot tho the mlle mite After years of ot litigation ho suited stated Judge o Dayton Daton of oC the West Vest Virginia courts acting n as arbitrator hold held that the Fulmar Coal company compan should sell Its mines to the railroad at t about the price required to de develop lop the mine That was what Elkins wanted all the time said Fulmar |