Show FEDERAL JURY INDICTS HARRIMAN I I Pacific Mail Mai and Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Must Answer for tOI Violating Violating Violating Vio Vio- lating Rate Law JUGGLED ORIENTAL RATES Case Against Corporations Is I Worked Up by Secret Agent of Government Government San Sail I Sept 20 Six U. Six Indictments Indict indict- ments were returned tola today b by lao Iho fed fed- fedI I oral orl grand jUI jury a against tho the Pacific Mall Steamship company und and the Southern Pacific In flu II IndIctments Indictment the names humus of ot I- I IX D. 11 U. 1 Hardman John Joll C C. Stubbs nl and amid R. R 1 P. P are arc re men loon mel mel- t ion ed This sensational action cUon upon the lie part alt of the tho grand Jury b by und through h which the time e commissioners com comma I missioners and ant other othol lOn authorities au an- I ure ule to luring bring some vcr very prominent prom prom- I steamship anti and ant railroad men Into II j I the thc federal courts on 01 criminal charges I for COl having hn violated totaled time the tie new rule rate law laws Is being surrounded et b by iy much secrecy It Il I has caused a bl big surprise In lam II local federal relI fed fed- rel- rel I eral circles and amid ha had been done so se secretly secretly se- se I nod md n HO io 0 quickly us to a astonish the and Bl steamship An u agent of the thc Interstate Commerce lon has hus systematically worked the o l evidence ence In iii tIme the case but lut whether I If I can cn be considered 1 ns its being related to til the recent efforts of PI Provident hl ll Roosevelt foose- foose Roose velt al and the time Interstate Commerce commission comma com COI- COI mission to lave have Ia c civil cl or UI criminal or both loth proceedings brought blought against I lute lute- i rh an and the lime Cle called so-called calc o-calc combination Is not maul 1 known 1 The h In Indictments embrace 1 10 counts and relate particularly to violations of or orthe the tho law lav on shipments from Crom the thc Orient through h the port of or San Saum an Francisco to I Chicago The hue particular Instances in tIme the I law w Is IH said to hat Im haxe c 0 been violated rio vio 10 hated relate to shipments of Ir matting i from Kohe Kobe to tl Chicago these shipments being Ol very lucas y ii mid III t r timorous dulu during quite a u number of or months of lie th I year car lul u ul iii Work A S special agent of oC the tl Commerce commission b. b by the time name of I Duncan lots has Ils been een lucre here on 01 this I case for tOl tOlE or a. a E number of months und and also II In II JUJa Japan l lIn In Investigating business U 0 Jq t n Ic l J il t a IO O J 1 I u. u o. o OcI i J bi I 1 tl n t 1 n. n J have beoma lh Ife He Jt will wll I 1 submit u U. mass of information for rOI the of or the grand jut v. jUJI it I Is also I that thal Duncan ha hub I boen been watching I he lie office o of J J. J Hart Hardy agent ent of or the tile I Southern Pacific at Fourth und and Townsend Town Town- 10 1 I send streets through whose office alt all al j these shipments passed after unel being ell I landed from Mull Mall lul vessels here I Ien en elm route east cast cast He lie humid hud Hardy subpoenaed as 8 a u witness wit wll- I ness before Lime tle grand jul Jury to together with several of or his clerks and ant a u num-j num 1 bee r of clerks employed et b by time the thC I Mull Mall It I Is positively known n kno that time the grand JU Jury jum- did ll not o hare haxo o ha before It I Inthis in inthis inthis I this matter malel any o of tho lo loading ln officials of ur time the tle two companies outside of or larl Hardy 11 Ii 1 A A. Jones Joftes manager o of i Limo Iho Southern Pacific said sid tOlla today when lien asked If It I he had been len a u witness the he grand JU jury that no nu ono one had hud served sCId d him ilin with a subpoena G. G W. W Luce the general freight agent of the company ind ano u 4 Auditor Segur of or the tIme company are arc In n the but It I Is known that tho they were not called Time The head man mama of the Mall Mail hero herc II It- It P P. stated stated stat stat- ed today o that neither he lie or ni any aimy officer J 1 Jor of or his company hud had hut been een before the I grand Jury t f I 1 fn 1 Worked I It I. I This Is th time the time In the time history I of ot tram Pacific trans traffic that lint u H federal grand JUI Jury has hus ever vcr ma made c Indictments fur for ur Solutions of or the time Interstate law II Just what whal period of or time lane tlC time Iho indict indict- laments co cohered IM is Ii not Iut known The Time Pacific Pa Pa- chic Mall Mail Ial and erel tt lip Southern Pacific nut and tho the tatters tatter's rail rull mi connections to lo Chicago u repeatedly violated time the tw Hepburn act in making rules fates Ol oil shipments from tho UIO Orient Their procedure curo US l. l lo to quote any kind of a rate rata In Iii tho timo Orient In or ordee ordel order or- or del dee to got busIness and thou thol when tho time shipment arrived at al Sun San Francisco to telegraph and amid write the Interstate Interstate Com Com- lerco commission giving I hl It I notice of time rates ir kt r nad nal IU made l' l In itt the time Orient on cam the cargo carSo There Thero was WIS no mao 10 compliance o of tho the la day required by law Notifying time the commission In tho the nor ncr stated staled tho the Southern officials admitted at ut that tUne to lo tho Iho commission commis stun sion that it I was Irregular but bul Unit It I was WS Impossible for Cor or then them and aud the thc Pad Pad- nc Mall Mail lal to do O otherwise o If tho they wanted to retain their share of or Oriental shipments ship ship- ments a against competition For POI a n period of or about 18 months prior to the enforcement enforce enforce- mont ment of or the thc Hepburn law there was vas u a t fluctuation In the rates Tate ruin from tho Orient on time Iho shipments particularly on matting mat mat- ting Lung to the United States Stales Hales nales fluctuated from ila tiny day to cO day UI und oven even ol e from hour to tu hour In getting n it cargo f Jr r an any given cn Those facts at time the time were s-cre laid haiti In detail cletaH I by Traffic Director J J. C. C Stubbs of or the time lIar Ilar- road before th thA Interstate Commerce Com CUI- CUI merce commission He lie Ie presented the tIme mutter I very ory strongly sta and ant Insisted that rates at Yokohama KI and other Orion Oriental tal points ha lint had to bo be lt changed frequently because of tho Thero There competition was no not noL time to give tho time Interstate Commerce Com Corn merce morce commission notice of those changes before the time cargo arrived at It ian Can Francisco I 11 earn of ur 11 It I Now ow York Sept Will lain F F. Ii Her Her- tIn rin head hea of time the tU law department of or the Southern company compan In San ban Francisco Fran Fran- cisco who Is It In Now New York consulting with wih 13 Fl E H H. HarrIman about and oIlier affairs In San said sold Sn Francisco he lao had hal not heal heard ot of the tho Indictments when Informed b by Time The Republican correspondent corres corres- of the time action of ot time the federal grant grand joe jUf jury When told toM of or the tho nature of the time true truc bills bis against the time Southern Pacific and time the Mull Mail Mal Steamship tc ho hue said bald company s1 I I am not nol cr very familiar with th the Iho specific cilia char charges cs that are arc mantle made und therefore there fore foro I cannot discuss eul them In any uny detail I hut but from fro what I 1 under understand the tho accusations accusations arc uro luse bused based pure purely on nim technical grounds So rL far as I know tho time proper rOIO I ou on PL O Two Tuo T o. I J i p y FEDERAL JURY JUR r INDICTS IN HARRIMAN HARRIM N Continued from mom Ia la c One r notification was made to the time If I Commerce comma commission ision name namely the tho tim 0 K notice timid that days three thIc da was required by law before the act went vent into effect last year There has haH been no 1 violation of 01 the time law that I know kno knoor of or While the th handing down of or indict indict- Is la new nw ti to me inc I have known of oi 1 the presence of if Mr Ir Duncan in San Sail I C Francisco I understood he lie was wan a a. special chit cial ul Investigator e from rota the time department departments s ut itt Time South South- J of Justice Washington era Pacific and I Mali Mail had nothing F i to conceal In iii the matter matte and arid Mr lr Duncan Dun Dun- 1 can n was 5 free Cree access to the time books J j 0 of or both com companies panics to collect whatever iz Iota data he lie desired 1 I do o not know whether he ho went to tho Orient Uio-Orient OrIent but I 1 understand that IJ he lie did ll In Indictments will i bo be lna mantle made c t. t under the time supervision of oC my department depart depart- 4 ment moot but bul I cannot cannot discuss it Il Int h. tg Jr until 1 I know moro of uC f fi the facts f. f Mr j II Herrin would not miot a admit that lila his trip to New Xe York is I for the limo purpose pin of ot i Ruing going ID over i San Sail Francisco politics with Mr 11 Ho lie said ho lie had hau heard h ar 1 of or time thc nomination of or n Ryan an by the time Re Republican lien Re lie- n publican cIty cily convention cOIl but bul declined o talk of or all any phase of or time the coast political ical leal situation X |