In the Colorado Fuel and Iron Case, investigated by the Commission in 1904 and 1905, it was shown that the Santa Fe has persistently violated the Interstate Act, the Elkins Act, and the injunctions issued by the United States Circuit Court. The Santa Fe tariff filed with the Interstate Commission May 24, 1903, and in effect till November 27, 1904, made the rate on coal from the Trinidad district, Colorado, to Deming, N. M., $4.05 a ton; but Mr. Biddle, General Traffic Manager of the Santa Fe, testified that during all this time $1.15 of the $4.05 was always paid back by the railroad to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, a concern in which the Standard Oil people are largely interested. Similar favors were shown the Colorado Company in respect to shipments from its mines at Gallup, N. M., giving that company a decided advantage over competitors, who were obliged to pay the full rate.[180] It made a difference, also, who was to get the coal. The Santa Fe carried Colorado Fuel and Iron Company coal to the El Paso and Southwestern for $2.90 a ton, while charging $3.45 a ton for hauling the same coal from the same mine to the same point, Deming, when the billing was to the Southern Pacific. The El Paso could get coal on a rate of $2.90, while the Southern Pacific must pay $3.45 and the published tariff rate was $4.05. Anybody on the line of the El Paso who stood in with the management could get the $2.90 rate, while his competitors might be paying $4.05. Mr. Biddle testified as follows, December, 1904, in answer to the questions of Mr. Field: “I say the freight rate we got from the Southern Pacific was $3.45 at the time we were accepting $2.90 on coal destined to the El Paso and Southwestern.” “MR. FIELD. That is to say, at that time you were charging the Southern Pacific Railroad Company $3.45 per ton for transporting coal (to Deming), when you were charging the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company only $2.90? “MR. BIDDLE. Yes, sir. “MR. FIELD. And all upon a published tariff which showed a rate of $4 to Deming? “MR. BIDDLE. No; the arrangement we had with the Southern Pacific was an agreement as to what they would pay for their coal. “MR. FIELD. You paid no attention whatever to the published tariffs? “MR. BIDDLE. I don’t know that we published a tariff on Southern Pacific coal at all. “MR. FIELD. When you published a tariff for the information of the public and the Interstate Commerce Commission, it was with the reservation that you might modify that tariff to certain consumers as suited your business? “MR. BIDDLE. It didn’t apply to coal when destined to the Southern Pacific. “MR. FIELD. That is another way of saying that it didn’t apply when you didn’t want it to apply.