Note 53 — Chapter VIII · EFFECTS OF THE INTERSTATE ACT.

Senate Committee, 1905, iv, pp. 2900–2901. Speaking of an investigation of rebates on flour from Minneapolis and Duluth, the Commission says (p. 8, Report for 1898): “All the railway witnesses denied knowledge of any violation of the statute, and most of the accounting officers testified to the effect that if rebates had been paid they would necessarily know about it and that their accounts did not show any such payments. It was nevertheless fully established by the investigation that secret rate concessions had been generally granted on this traffic and that the carrier had allowed larger rebates to some of the flour shippers than to others.”