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AUGUST 17, 1906
The Commoner.
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Paul Morton Rebate Case Revived
Under date of "Washington, August
9, the Associated Press carried the
following dispatch:
In a statement issued today by the
interstate commerce commission re
garding the conviction of the Atchi
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railway com
pany for, violating the law with respect
to the giving of rebates, the commis
sion says "the avowed purpose of the
practice tends to support the views"
that there was no criminal intent on
the part of Paul Morton, formerly
."secretary of the nayy and former head
pf the traffic department of the Santa
Fe and the other railroad officials In
volved. The statement calls atten
tion to he fact that with the imposi
tion of the $15,000 fine on the rail
road "the history of the famous Santa
Fe rebate case is practically closed,"
and praises President Roosevelt and
Attorney General Moody for carrying
out with success the administration's
declared purpose to enforce the stat
ute in all such cases.
Regarding the criticism which fol
lowed the refusal of the administra
tion to prosecute Paul Morton the
statement says:
"Too much praise can not be ac
corded to Attorney General Moody in
carrying this case through to a suc
cessful termination, and that, too,
after the adverse criticisms in many
journals because of the refusal of the
administration to undertake the prose
cution of Paul Morton, then secre
tary of the ,navy, and -formerly head of
the traffic department of the Santa Fe
system. The attorney general, in dis
agreeing with Messrs. Harmon and
Judson, who had been employed by
the government to maTce a preliminary
investigation, acted plainly with fore
knowledge of the legal difficulties that
attended" every step in the attempted
prosecution of Mr. Morton and other
officials in this peculiar case, which
really grew out of a long-standing
practice intended primarily Co develop
the coal industry in Colorado aijd New
Mexico, which really did have that ef
fect and which only became conspicu
ously unlawful after the passage of
the Elkins law in 1903- and the cour
ageous Investigation and the report
of the facts by the interstate commerce-
commission to the. attorney
general.
"There was a technical violation of
the law involved in the transaction,
as has always been plain, but that
there was criminal intent on the part
of Mr. Morton and the other officials
involved has always been denied; and
the avowed purpose of the practice
tends to support that view."
Further on the statement says:
"It will bo remembered that the de
partment of justice first sought to
use this case and others in tho Kan
sas City federal court to establish con
tempt on the part of the Santa Fe,
which was then under injunction is
sued in omnibus form and covering
all traffic against that carrier and nu
merous other carriers engaged large
ly in 'carrying grain, grain products,
live stock and live stock products on
account of rebates shown to have
been granted generally on such traffic
In a former investigation by the in
terstate commerce commission. This
attempt to establish contempt by
showing rebates in coal failed, the
court holding that a general injunc
tion could not lawfully issue. Later
on a civil case brought against the
Santa Fe by cdal mining companies
discriminated against, in favor of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company was
settled by the payment of something
like a half million dollars and now has
followed the conviction as above stat
ed of the railway company and the
fuel and iron company."
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