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Show GOT MORE CARS IF PAID SAY SHIPPERS OF COAL GRAFT CHARGED IN OAR DISTRIBUTION. DIS-TRIBUTION. Serious Accusations Made of Fraud and Favoratism Coal Ready to Ship and Oars Not Forthcoming Unless Un-less Bribed Honest Dealer Suffers j and Priee Goes Up. , XKW YOHIC, Xov. 6. Charges of graft in the distribution of coal car I In coal pomiNUiiea, which has root the B public hnntlreda of thonaanda of d- B fan are mm being investigated b the H criminal invaatigation deftnrtr. cut ol tiie inUrealald euinmem nimniiwnon H The nmmiaaim'a inreatigalien nf A lejrol frauds in coal car riintnhution 1 ii the result nf inveatigationa by prl- H ale coal asaociations, which charge ffi that: I Soma mines in the Kaal an getting fa.' more run than they .-h '1.1 c-ronling c-ronling to tha rating nt the interstate romtmree commiasiou. Certain men in charge of car distribution distri-bution for railroads have been getting i big bribes from crooked operators for hovliiK theae cninpaniM inure than their shares of cars. I Some distributors make as high aa fifteen hundred dollars a month by1 this graft. ! Coal dealers who refuse to pay this tribute to the distributors not only do not get the ears, bat also are forced to jtay thouoaiiU of dollars in demurrage. demurr-age. "The final phase nf this enormous graft waa uncovered at Itnllimore," nays Olid L. I taker, Washington, I). t C, attorney for the Wholesale Coal Traders' association. "There wc found evidence that convinced us certain cer-tain railroad oificials had la-cn induce! in-duce! to give out tcrmiu lor shipping coal that were latsed on lalsccvidcnec. "The coal dealer might have alt the, coal in the world, but he could not (ret cars nnleaa he iaid cither grttt or dc-'H iiiurragc at tlm coal mines I a "The honest coal dcilcr suffered IB also when the inlcmtatc cjiimciv! commisaion atoppcil atiipments for a'H ieriod because he could not ship coal and the crooked dealer could. " This is ono of the practices Hint has put tho price of coal, operators any, far above what it should be. |