ITEMS OF INTEREST May 9, 1908 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The Union Pacific Railroad Company is charged in an official report made by the Interstate Commerce Commission with "absolutely dominating the mining, transportation, and selling of coal along its lines in Wyoming and Utah." This is the third of a series of reports of investigations into the question of railroad discrimination and monopoly in carrying oil and coal, and covers investigations in the States of Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, and Wyoming. In Utah the Commission found also that the Pleasant Valley Company is controlled by the Denver and Rio Grande, of the Gould system. The charge is made that these railroads through the fuel companies have secured control of vast tracts of mineral lands through dummy filings. Among other things the Commission reports that it "finds that the acquisition of coal lands by such coal and fuel companies has been attended with fraud, perjury, violence, and disregard of the rights of individuals." It is also charged that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company received rebates on shipments of coal, in some cases paying as low as 37 1/2 cents a ton and seldom more than 56 cents a ton, while other shippers, especially private shippers, paid from 75 cents to $1.25 a ton.

President Eliot of Harvard University, in his annual report, says of football: "The American modifications of Rugby football have now been played long enough to make possible a judgment as to the success of eminent football players in after life; and the verdict is what might have been expected. It clearly appears that neither the bodily nor the mental qualities which characterize football players are particularly serviceable to young men who have their way to make in the intellectual callings. Football toughness is not the kind of toughness which is most profitable in after life."

The President desires the Sundry Civil Bill to carry an increased appropriation for the employment of expert accountants by the Interstate Commerce Commission. He insists that the railroad rate law will be a failure unless provision is made for the employment of a large number of expert examiners.

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