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Y ' ; ' ' ' ' VOL. XLVI. 0. 14,167. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IS E E President Tells What Garfield Found. PAMPERED PET OF RAILROADS Huge Monopoly Built Up on Violation of Law. PROSECUTION TO FOLLOW Garfield Tells Many Devices by Which Monopoly Crushed Com petition Defects In Law to Be Removed. WASHINGTON, May 4. President Roosevelt today transmitted to Con. Kress the report of James R. Garfield, Commissioner of Corporations, giving the results of his Investigation of the subject of transportation and freight rates in connection with the oil in dustry. In his message . the President ex presses the view that the report is of capital importance, because of the ef fort now being made to secure such enlargement of the powers of the In terstate Commerce Commission as will confer upon the Commission power in some measure adequate to meet the cleiirly demonstrated needs of the sit uation. The facts set forth In the report, he declares, are for the most part not dis puted. That the Standard Oil Company lias benefited enormously up almost to the present moment by secret rates, many nf which were clearly unlawful, the Presidtnt says the report clearly shows, the benefit ther vy s. fired amouc tlnv . to t least ti.re-j iarfflr.i h. million d jh ? a yar. On this subject, he say : All Taken From People. "This 1750,090 represents the profits that the Standard Oil Company ob tains at the expense of the railroads, but, of course, the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit at. the expense of the public. 'A very striking result of the Inves tigation has been that shortly after the discovery of these secret rates by the Commissioner of Corporations, the major ptrt of them were promptly corrected by the railroads so that most of them have now been done away with. "This immediate correction, partial or complete, -of- the evil-of the secret rates. Is. of course, on the one hand an acknowledgement that they' were wrong and yet were persevered in un til exposed, and, on the other hand, a proof of the efficiency of the work that has been done by the Bureau of Corporations." Prosecution Without Immunity. The statement Is added that the De partment of Justice will take up the auestton of instituting prosecutions in st least certain of the cases, and the hope Is expressed that Congress will enact into law the bill of Senator Knox to correct the Interpretation of the Immunity proviHlon rendered in Judge Humphrey s decision. Continu ing, the President says: Hut In addition to theso secret rates the Standard Oil Company profits Im mensely by open rates, which are so arranged as to give it an overwhelm ing advantage, over Its Independent competitors. Combine to Crush Competition. This Is a characteristic example of the numerous evils which are Inevita ble under a system In which the big shipper and the railroad are left free to crush out all Individual , initiative and all power of Independent action, because of the absence of adequate and thorough general governmental control. "Exactly similar conditions obtain tn a large part of the West and South west." 'It Is not possible to put Into figures the exact amount by which the Standard Oil ' profits through the gross favoritism shown It by the railroads In connection with the open rates. The profit, of course, conies not merely by the saving "in the rate Itself as compared with Its compet itors, but by the higher prices It Is able to charge and by the complete control of the market which It secures, thereby getting tne profit on the whole con sumption." Kvade Law In Making Rates. The President calls attention to that feature of the report regarding the manner In which the. law is evaded by treating aa state commerce what in reality Is merely a part of Inter state commerce. He says It is clearly shown: "That this device la employed on the New York Central Railroad, as well as on many other railroads. In such fashion as to amount to thwart ing the purpose of the law although the forms of the law may be complied with." It Is unfortunately not true, he says, that the Standard Oil Company is the only corporation which has benefited and Is benefiting in wholly Improper fashion by an elaborate series of rate discriminations. 0 LI lngr to the results of the investigation now in progress, rarely if ever pays the lawful rate for transportation. He declares that In the effort to pre vent the railroads from uniting for improper purposes, "we have very un wisely prohibited them from uniting for proper purposes; that is, for pur poses of protecting' themselves and the general public as against the power of the great corporations." He favors as an element of competi tion the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the House, puffing alcohol used in the arts and manufactures on the free list and keeping the fee to oil and coal lands of the Indian tribes or on the public domain In the Government, the lands to be leased only on such terms and for auch periods aa will enable the Government to entirely control them. GARFIELD EXPOSES CRIMES Standard and Railroads Combine to Crush Oat Competition. In summarizing his report to President RooBevelt, Commissioner Garfield speaks of his personal visit to the oil fields and of the great mass of data obtained by him either personally or through agents of the Bureau of Corporations. The preliminary study of this was trans portation, which enters so largely Into the cost of the finished product and hence a most Important factor in competition. Taking up the subject of the output of refined oil. Mr. Garfield finds, that It amounts to about 26,000,000 barrels annual ly, of which the Standard Oil Company directly- and indirectly controls about 23,000,000 barrels, and approximately the same proportion of the other finished prod ucts of petroleum. Continuing, the report says: "The Standard claims that the location of its refineries and the use of pipe lines are natural advantages to which it is Justly entitied by reason of the energy and foresight of its managers. Gained Advantage Unfairly. "While In a measure this is true, it must not be forgotten that these advantages were in part obtained by means of unfair competitive methods after years of fierce Industrial strife. "The development of the pipe-line sys tem by the Standard Oil Company wajs the result of special agreements with railroad companies. "Furthermore, those so-called natural advantages have been and are being great ly increased by discriminations in freight rates, both published and secret, Interstate and state, which give the Standard OH monopolistic control in the greater portion of the country, and which so limit com petition as practically to prevent the ex tension of the business of any Independent In a point which vm; remotely endangers the supremacv of the Standard Oil. Exorbitant Price of Oil. "An Immediate result of this elimina tion of the competitive area is shown by the prices of ordinary illuminating oil throughout the country. "After deducting the freight rate, the price of such oil is usually from I cents to 5 cents a gallon higher in the non competitive than In the competitive fields. "A reasonable profit on refined oil is about H cent a gallon. It Is clear that exorbitant profits are obtained In the non competitive fields. This monopolistic control extends from the well of the producer to the doorstep of tho consumer." Mr. Garfield cites the fact that the New York Central Railroad Company refused for Itself and affiliated lines to give access to records, of state rates. Facts Prove Discrimination. At the beginning of the investigation, he says, the Standard Oil Company denied that it had obtained in recent years or was now obtaining any rebate or other transportation discrimination as against its competitors, and yet he says that a most careful review of the facts and the explanations lead up to the conclusion that -the Standard Oil Company has habit ually received from the railroads and is now receiving secret rates and other un just and Illegal discriminations. "In 1904 these rates saved to the Stand ard OH Company 1750.000. representing the difference between the open rates and the rates actually paid. "These discriminations have been so long (Concluded on Pafe 7.) FACTS FOUND BY GARFIELD. Railroad discrimination in rates gives Standard Oil Company monopoly In greater part of country and limits extension of independent trade. Price of refined oil Is 2 to 6 cents a gallon higher in non-eompetittver than competitive fields. Reasonable profit is half a cent a gallon. . . Discrimination takes these forms:. ". .. Secret and semi-secret rates. In open arrangement of rates. In classification and rules of shipment. In treatment of private tank cars. Secret rates apply often on rates wtthin single states. Secret rates are concealed by blind billing, whereby rates are not on freight bill, but are collected from central office and concealed from local agent. Largest number of secret rates and rebates In California, more than 80 being discovered there. Multitude of discriminations possible in local rates on less than car load lots. Standard Oil has had important voice in construction of open rates to give it unfair advantage: On Pacific Coast all refineries receive S-10 cent per mile on loaded move ment under 800 miles, i cent per mile over that distance, but Standard Oil cars receive cent on all loaded and empty cars. Similar discrimination Is practiced on transcontinental railroads in Northwest. . . ' Interstate and state rates are so combined as to favor Standard. Some of the discriminations were no sooner discovered than the guilty railroads corrected them. '. ' Standard Oil, through pipe lines and oil steamers. Is competitor of rail roads, and natural policy of railroads would be to favor small refiners. This policy has been pursued regarding other freight, but reversed regard ing oil. Yearly output of refined oil is 26,000,000 barrels, of which Standard Oil produces 23.000,000. Standard Oil denies receiving discrimination, but facts show it directly gained J75O.0OO in 1904 by this means and vastly more indirectly. Defects in Interstate law regarding filing and publication of tariffs enable railroads to make secret rates. All state rates should be filed with Interstate Commission, tariffs sim plified and method of posting and filing them changed. WHAT THE P RES IT) E X T PROPOSES. Department of Justice will take up prosecutions. That law be amended to deny immunity to guilty individuals. That alcohol used in arts and manufactures. be put on free list. That title to oil 'and coal land of Indians and on public domain be kept in Government, and that such land be leased and kept under Government control. VIGOROUS REPLY OF Denies Garfield's Charges on All Points. GALLED MAN WITH MUCKRAKE Flings Sarcasm at Roosevelt's Many Opinions. ALWAYS OBSERVES LAW Rogers and Archbold Claim Natural Advantages and Good Judgment Built Up Business Xo Re bates or Secret Rates. NEW YORK, May 4. In reply to Pres ident Roosevelt's message and the re port of Commissioner Garfield, H. H. Rogers and John D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Company, said that their examination of the message and report necessarily had been hurried, and that they should at a later date make a full answer to their shareholders. Mean while they made the following state ment to the Associated Press: "In the President's effort to secure the passage of a bill enlarging the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Just and equitable railway rates, we have precisely the same interest that any good citizen has; no more and no less. Regarding his criticisms upon the management of the railways. or his strictures upon any acts of the Inter state Commerce Commission we have neither responsibility nor concern. Objects to Being Object Wesson. When, however, he or Commissioner Garfield attacks the Standard Oil Com pany and uses its methods of doing busl sn ib?"ct-leason for the purpose of r.-u "tii!!r his views, w protest. It may "oe"rankly stated at the outset that tl Btanard Oil Company has at all times within the limits of fairness and with due regard to the law sought to secure the moat advantageous freight rates and routes possible. There will be no denial of this fact on our part. The question is whether we have at any point violated the law or the proprieties. "The present inquiry grew out of a resolution adopted by Congress a. year ago on motion of Mr. Campbell of Kan sas, instructing the Secretary of Com merce and Labor to investigate the oil business as carried on In this country. We welcomed the investigation. When Commissioner Garfield, in the discharge of his duty, visited our offices, his experts were given free access to our books and the fullest opportunity to ascertain the manner In which our business was con ducted. Frank disclosures of all our methods were made and every criticism offered by him was met with a candid and painstaking answer. "So conscious were we of our recti tude that we repeatedly importuned Mr. Garfield to make public the conditions existing in Kansas, but he refused. We proposed ourselves to answer some of the unfair criticisms upon the subject, but refrained on Mr.- Garfield's advice and on his assurance that his report would present the case fairly. It turned out that, so far as Kansas was concerned, the state authorities abandoned their at tack. Slaps at President. 1 "One does not care to bandy words with the President of the United States. STANDARD It is not easy to differentiate between Mr. Roosevelt, the President and Mr. Roosevelt, the Individual. He has given of his advice most generously on every subject from the size of our families to the mistakes of Federal Judges, . and some error Is inevitable now and then to" the most conservative man under such circumstances. "We say flatly that any statement that the Standard Oil Company has or is now knowingly engaged in practices which are unlawful is untruthful and .unjust. "The Commissioner's report, upon which the President's message is based, opens with the statement that the manu facture of refined oil in this country is about 26.0p0.000 barrels annually. It ' Is unimportant, but it would nevertheless have been fair for him to have stated that .over 15.000,000 of barrels of this an nual manufacture is exported, and with its manufacture or price the American public Is not concerned. James R. Garfield. Commissioner of Corporations. Standard's Natural Advantages. "He next calte attention to the fact that the Standard Oil refineries are lo cated at centers of distribution, while the independent refineries are usually in the crude oilfields. This fact, if borne steadily in mind, will answer very many of Oie criticisms which he later indulges in. He charges that this location of re fineries and the natural advantages fol lowing it were obtained by means of un- (Concluded on Page 7.) CONTENTS TODAY'S .PAPER dc-; mi jlmuin temperature, 4t 5eg Pre cipitation, nor.e. TOD A T'S Fa lr and warmer ; northriy winds. Sim Francisco. Management of city restored to municipal officials. Page 4. Bankers declare charity not needed In re building Page -4. Greely takes stock of food and city pre pares to employ idle. Page . Oregon relief bureau will transfer work; to other officials. Page 5. Came of earthquake discovered in splitting of mountains. Page 3. National. Garfield's report, on Standard Oil accuses it and railroads of rebating and wholesale discrimination and President prepares to prosecute. Page 1. Standard Oil and railroad deny chara-es and attack Roosevelt and Garfield. Page 1. Indictments for rebatjpg against sugar trust and railroads. Page 3. Republican factions agree on court review amendment to rate bill. Page 1. Senate makes rate bill apply to sell pipe lines. Page 2. Hoae committee kills bill abolishing land . office receivers. Page 2. Foreign. Britain sends ultimatum and fleet to Turkey and other powers support her. Page 5. Russian Democrats hold convention and pre pare platform. Page, 5. New Cabinet claims to he liberal and de nonnces Wltte as oppressor. Page-5. Cxar in panic over what Parliament may do. Page 5. - Russian anarchist found dead near Paris. Page 5. Domeitie. - ' What t'nele ?am ha done in City of Panama. Page S. Senator Heyburn's illness becomes more serl out.. Page . J Terrible trainwreck in Pennsylvania. Page 5. Anthracite miners leave -co m m 1 1 Lee to decide on strike. JPssre 5. Sport. Commuters defeat the Beavers.' Page 12. Pacific Coast Baseball League will not dis band la statement of M. Credle. Page 12. Parlfki Coast. Washington schorv' superintendents declaro for direct primrry law at Walla Walla convention. Page 6. Boom lr Bevea DevHs mine started by rumors of railroad building from Hunt ington. Page 6.t . Linn County finrfs- direct primary law an expensive luxury Page 6. Assailant, of Rainier. Or., editor and re former caught at Kelso, Wash,; Is a Portland thug. Page 6. Oommcrriml and Marine. Ungrounded fear on Puget Sound of butter war. Page 11. Fluctuations Ir whfiit at Chicago. Page 17. Stock market igains all of Thursday's loss. Page 17. Steamer Homer chartered to take supplies from Portland to Pribilof Islands. Page 16. Contracts for rock for Columbia Fiver jetty may be awarded today. Paa ia. Steamer Allianr- arrives from Eureka after stormy voysge Page 1ft. Portland and VMoJty. Judge Frazer stts a commissioner in the right of way dispute across the Peninsula of the Hill and Harriman lines. Page 10. Great enthusiasm manifested in the coming "Made tn Oregon" E-tpositton. Page 10. Republicans generally declare party ticket - In a good one anfl predict success from top to bottom. Page Relief fund lacks but little more than $3000 of reaching quarter -of t million mark. Page 11. Employes of Portland Railway ask Increase In wage scale. Page 18. Record of a day in the Municipal Court. Page 11. New minimum on lumber shipments East displeases local manufacturers. Page 10. IXHils Blumaur. president Blumauer-Frank Drug Company, dies at Hotel Portland. ' Page 11- Ex-Congressman Robert Faker, of New York, talks to Democrats "on municipal ownership and comments on f30.000.000 merger in Portland. Page 18. Executive Board orders prosecution of Arlington Club and owner of Lazarus building for violating law, and threatens to close Front street. Page .1ft. Infected trees in orchard at MUwaukie cut PARTY IS UNITED T Factions' Agree on . Allison Provision. ACCEPTABLE TO ROOSEVELT Recognizes Jurisdiction of the Courts Over Rates. BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY Republicans Will Pass Bill, Though democrats Slay Pour In Broad sides President Discusses Agreement With Papers. WASHINGTON-. May 4. (Special.)-The lone fight over the railroad rate bill Is ended and both extremes are claiming the victory tonight. Senator Allison, of Iowa, Is credited with being- the dove 'of peace. His court review amendment has solved the vexed problem. The Presi dent and the Republican friends of the Hepburn bill have accepted it and Sen ator Aldrich and the so-called "conserva tive" Senators have acquiesced. The Senate adjourned over until Monday to night under a protocol, for the purpose of ratifying a full treaty and formally winding up the whole controversy. Both Sides Have Won.. ."'President ; Roosevelt has won his fight." is the Jubilant proclamation of the friends of the administration. "President Roosevelt has surrendered to the conservatives' and Aldrich has won his fight" Is the declaration of the op ponents of the administration. But it is all over at any rate unless something entirely unforeseen occurs 'between now and the time when voting on the amend ments more or les important has run its . perfunctory course, and that of itself Is cause for universal gratification. Satisfactory to Roosevelt. "President Roosevelt believes that the Allison amendment is perfectly straight, regards it simply as stating In specific terms just exactly what the framens of the Hepburn bill intended to have pro vided In that measure and, such being the case, he naturally feels elated over the triumph claimed by the supporters of the administration. On the other hand, It Is claimed, es pecially by leaders among the Democrats, that the Allison amendment provide? for the very broadest kind of court review and that it la a complete victory for those who have been contending for that principle. Democrats Will Open Fire. There will be some lively lo-minute speeches when the court-review feature comes up in the Senate, some time next week, but the agreement reached by the Republican Senators is not likely to be shaken by the broadsides of Bailey and other big guns, or the rapid-fire batteries of Tillman. The Democrats are much stirred up over the prospect of a law that will go through the Senate as a distinctively Re publican measure. President, Quite Satlsflod. A brief review of the position President Roosevelt has taken on the rate question since the Hepburn bill saw the light of day, and an analysis of the present sit uation as it Is seen by the Administration-,' will give The Orcgonlan readers the t HENRY H. KOGKRS. 00 V best means of judging of the soundness of the claim that the President has won a notable fight and added another feather to the many that adorn his official cap As stated. President Roosevelt regards the Allison amendment as thoroughly ac ceptable and one to which none of the ob jections attaching to other proposed court review amendments can be raised. From the outset he has been entirely satisfied with the Hepburn bill just as it stands and he would be willing to take it that way now. But he" is willing also, for the sake of removing all chance of the pos sible unconstitutionality of the act, to let a provision declaring in specific terms that the courts shall have Jurisdiction go into it. - - PRESIDENT STATES POSITION" Satisfied AVitlt Allison's Amendment, Though He Prefers Long's. WASHIXGTOX, ' May 4. Thirty-six members of the corps of Washington cor respondents, " representing . the ' leading dally newspapers and press associations In tho United States, met' President Roose velt by Invitation In the Cabinet room of the executive offices this afternoon to discuss with him the status of railroal rate legislation and to learn, the Presi dent's views as to certain pending amend ments to the Hepburn bill. The meeting lasted more than an hour. While the President made it clear at the outset that he desired not to be quoted directly as to the views he might express, he said that he waa perfectly willing that his views should be known and stated in J he lan guage of the members of the press who were present. The discussion dealt chiefly with the various propositions for a court review, from the broad amendment proposed by Senator Bailey, of Texas, to the restrictid amendment offered by Senator Ixng, of Kansas. The President, in beginning, in dicated clearly and positively that he would be satisfied with the enactment of the Hepburn bill as it was reported to the Senate from the committee on inter state commerce. He pointed out, how ever, that some advocates of railroad-rate legislation as sincere friends of the leg islation as he- himself was believed it would be wise so to amend the measure as to provide specifically for a review of the decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission by the courts. To thi end, the proposition evolved by Senator Allison, of Iowa, which now prac tically has been agreed upon by the Re publicans of the Senate, was offered, and after consideration was accepted by the friends of the measure, Including the President. The President expressed the opinion that the effect of the Allison prop osition was embodied in the Hepburn bill, but It Is also his opinion, as he stated it today, that, if there is the slightest doubt that the Hepburn bill, by Implication, does not carry the effect of the Allison proposition, it ought to be incorporated explicitly in the measure before'-lts en actment into law. Personally he favors the narrower restriction of the amend ment of Senator Long, but some other advocates of the legislation do not favor that amendment. He made it clear that the Judgment of the friends of the measure was so evenly balanced on the question of the Long amendment that it was scarcely worth while to make a contest for it, as a year or two of the law's operation would dem onstrate clearly whether it would be nec essary further to. amend the act in the way proposed by Senator Long. The President assured his hearers that he and every advocate of tits pending measure would be satisfied perfectly with the Hepburn bill with the amendment proposed by Senator Allison. HAS TWO SETS OF HEIRS Oregon Women Claim Interest In Estate of Kentucky Millionaire. LEXINGTON. Ky., May 4. (Special.) R. B. Metcalfe, millionaire, who formerly resided near Portland, Or., died -here re cently, leaving a large estate. Mrs. Win nie Heidtman and Mrs. Ella Gilliam, of Wheeler County, Oregon, clouded the title of certain property in Fayette County, claiming to be heirs at law of Metcalfe, who, they claimed, married their mother. The claim created a sensation, and heirs here have brought suit, asking the court to require the Oregon heirs to produce evidence of their interest in the estat. 1 1 " ""NX"?.'- MASTER OF STANDARD Oil. REBATES GIVEN TO SUGAR TRUST Grand Jury Finds Seven Indictments. FIRST UNDER ELKINS LAW Trust and vlts Officials and Railroads Accused. MANY OTHER INSTANCES New York Grand Jury Finds Crime Skillfull)- Concealed New York Central and Its Officials Among the Accused. NEW YORK, May 4.-The April Federal grand Jury, in concluding Its labors to day, handed down seven sealed indict ments in the sugar-rebating cases. The indictments are against the following: The New Tork Central Railroad, the American Sugar Refining Company, the New York Central & Hudson River Rail road Company and Nathan Guilford, vice president of the company; theAmerican Sugar Refining Company, of New York, and C. C. Goodlee; Edgar and Edwin Earle. the latter two being wholesale sugar-dealers of Detroit, Mich.: the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company and Nathan C. Guilford and F. .L. Pomeroy, general traffic manager; the American Sugar Refining Company and the American Sugar .Refining Com pany of New York and C. C. Goodlee, Kdgur and Edwin Earle; Nathan Gull ford, F. L. Pomeroy; C. C. Goodlee, Edgar and Edwin Earle. Liable to Fine and Prison. The first six indictments were found under the Elkins anti-rebate law, which provides penalties of a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment not ex ceeding two. years for giving, granting, applying'Tor or accepting any rebate or concession from the regular freight rates, as published by a railway company as a common carrier. The seventh indictment found against Guilford, Pomeroy, Edgar Earle and Edi win Earle, charges them with having collectively conspired to violate the pro visions of the Elkins anti-rebate law. First Under Elkins Law. These are the first indictments for an alleged violation of the anti-rebate law found in this district. Sixteen sessions of the April grand Jury were devoted ex clusively to the consideration of these cases, but It is evident from the present ment which the Jury handed in with the indictments that it deems the situation but hurriedly canvassed. It recommends that the investigation be continued by its successor, intimating that Indications point to the possibility that other com mon carriers may be equally culpable with the indicted roads. The presentment, addressed to Circuit Judge George U. Holt, states that the grand jury deems it proper to call at tention to the gravity of the evils inci dent to the violation of the interstate commerce laws which bave been prac ticed in respect to merchandise trans ported from New York City to various points in the West. The presentment re fers to the large amount of evidence con sidered and the necessity of "preventing various skillful disguises" used in trans acting through-freight business, and con tinues: Many Other Offenses. "But the evidence investigated by us bearing upon the indictments which we have found has incidentally revealed to us the probable existence of so many other instances of similar offenses as to indl- -cate a general and systematic policy, pur sued by certain large shippers, of extort ing from the different railroad companies. "The evidence before us has related mainly to shipments of sugar from va rious refineries in this locality to West ern markets. In addition to cases in which indictments have been handed down the evidence has indicated that rebates have been regularly given to sugar refiners and their customers by several other Interstate lines; that r regular allowance of 2 cents per 100 pounds has been made by various rail road companies to sugar refiners to cover alleged cartage, an allowance which, though usually issued In the tariffs, often represents no labor actually performed, and that other special favors of various kinds have been -regularly made in re gard to the sugar shipments, either to the. refiners themselves or to their of ficers or agents engaged In subsidiary business like lighterage. The evidence before us has shown clearly in several Instances and has indicated to be a fact quite generally that the Elkins law as to the giving of rebates has been disre garded since the day of its enactment." Skillful Devices of Concealment. The presentment says the difficulties of Investigation heretofore mentioned and the skillful devices under which dis crimination is often veiled may render detection and proof of this claas of crime difficult. "Nevertheless." it continues, "we deem h our duty to call the atten tion of this honorable court and the sur ceedlng grand Jury to the great public. Importance of a continued Investigation into the state of affairs upon which the indictments herewith submitted are based to the end that further Indictments of a like nature may be .found and other steps taken to mitigate the evils which we believe to be generally prevalent and which cause great injury and oppression to small shippers, thus dented equal ac cess to markets In interstate commerce." The "sugar rebating cases" are the outgrom-th of charges against' the cor porations and individuals now under in dictmnt which were presented to the Department of Justice at Washington by Representative W. R. Hearst, of thM city. The hearings have been In progress lor 1A last six week - tiinin tu imi .t. .