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Show EXISTENCE OF A POOL AGREEHT WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 Charging the existence of a pooling agreement whereby a foreign shipping trust dictates dic-tates i outing and rates of freight and passenger traffic to and from Europe and the Caribbean sea and Cuba, Representative Rep-resentative Humphrey, of Washington, Washing-ton, today asked the house nilos committee com-mittee to report favorably on his leso-lutlonto leso-lutlonto creato a commission to investigate in-vestigate the subject. Mr. Humphrey said ho could furnish fur-nish evidence to show that tho railroads rail-roads are parties to these agreements All thCBe lines, ho said, gavo rebates re-bates and special privileges to preferred pre-ferred shippers, such as the Standard Oil, Steol trust and the harvester combinations. Germany, he pointed out, can ship to Salt Lake City cheaper cheap-er than ono can ship from Cincinnati to Salt Lake City. |