Show FORAKER AGAINST HEPBURN MEASURE Proposes to Allow Railroad Monopoly on Coal to Continue LOOPHOLE FOR REBA REBATES ES Senator Perkins I Introduces Bill I To Release California Lawbreakers Washington ton April 13 Senator Senator Foraker laid aside his imis Brownsville club dub lone long enough to get the Hepburn rate law Jaw and start a fight tight to allow railroads to continue as the time owners and operators ors of ot coal mines He proposes to ac- ac this by a n short amen amendment ment to time the bill to be Inserted after time the commo commodities Ules clause which provides that no railroad company shall shaH be forced to surrender its mines or other I properties provided they owned o an and I operated them in June 1906 1006 when tho the rate rale bill went into effect Perkins Introduces Bill TIm Senator Perkins introduced a bill athe at atthe atthe the he request of the Pacific Coa Coast t Jobbers Jobbers Jobbers' Job Job- JobI I ers bers' bers association of or San Francisco re releasing releasing re- re I leasing easing shippers from the penalties ed in the time same ame law Jaw for rebating whenever shippers could show that the they hey were personally Ignorant of the special rate granted to them by the railroads Both of these bills were referred to the Interstate Commerce mission commIssion om Senator Foraker's bill would enable ill all railroads owning coal mines to to operate them and to haul he the pro product over their own lines thus nullifying entirely the tho most Important feature of or the time Hepburn bUL Senator lkins ElkIns recently Introduced a 3 resolution providing that the time commodity clauso clause should bo suspended until January 1 1 1903 1900 I I |