Note 191 — Chapter XIX · THE COLORADO FUEL REBATES AND OTHER CASES.

Mr. Morton’s letter to President Roosevelt, June 5, 1905. Secretary Morton continues: “The tariff covering this arrangement was published so as to show the freight rate to be $4.05 per ton instead of the delivered price at El Paso and Deming, and did not separate the freight rate from the cost of the coal at the mines, as it should have done. Until the investigation of the case by the Interstate Commerce Commission I did not know personally how the matter was being handled, so far as the publication of the tariff was concerned. My own connection with the case was to see that the traffic was secured to the Atchison rails, and after that details were left to subordinates.”