Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-21

for the additional four hundred miles OF
the road within the State Of Kansas, We
find to be as low as the rates upon the
highest classes of roads in some of the
States east of us. How can your Honor
able Board in Justice and reason make a
lower tariff without forcing us TO apply
to the courts for protection?"
You are mistaken when you say that
we stated that your distance tariff over
| the first seventy miles OF your road was
as low as rates on first class roads In llll-
Rois. If you will consult our decision
you will observe that we had reference
solely to the local tariff. If we had char
acterized your distance tariff In eOmpari-
son with rates on any eastern road, we
should have been compelled to have
( said that it was enormously above rates
upon any eastern road that we know of.
| To test the value of the rest of your
statement, viz: that "fOr the additional
four hundred miles of the road within
the State of Kansas you find" [your tariff
ito be as low as the rates upon the high
est class Of roads in some of the States
east of U.s." we will quote rates fixed by
us to Newton, and those upon the Illinois
Commissioners tariff for the same dis
lance:
Rates to Newton, pol miles from Kan
sas City-First class, 613c, second class,
533c; third class, 473c; fourth clats, 42c;
wheat, TIC; other grains, 1910; cattle and.
hogs, 35.50c.
illinois tariff, Commissioners rates
| First class, SIC; second class, 42c; third
class, 32.50c; fourth class. 25c; wheat.
1880; other grains, 13c; cattle and hogs,
1880.
The other classes and commodities in
the like proportion.
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| able Board in Justice and reason make q
| lower tariff without forcing us to apply
to the courts for protection?" You have
a right to apply to the courts, and we
| have already shown how much you need
! protection. But we havn't shown it all,
and we shall take great pleasure in assist
ing you in showing the courts how I'M
reasonable we have been. By institut-
! ing an investigation of the history and
character of your stock transactions, we
will proceed to ascertain what part of
your stock is bona fde and what part is
illegal and bogus. We have no donbt
that you will perform an unattended
public service by inviting such an inves-
LEGATION.
/ Won observe again, eve see with re-
greet that your decision has reafirmed
special rates within the State in clear
violation Oflaw, as we have been advised
| by three separate counsel to whom we
have submitted this question, when your
first decision was promulgated" In this
again, your meaning is not apparent.
We have made no special rates within
the State-We have simply reduced those
rates that we found in force on your road.
If any of these rates are in violation of
law, then your company has been ha-
bi$ually violating the law ever since it
/ want into 0ffpof TS If C%yov1c.o Lo4
you never discovered this dilemma until
the Commissioners were compelled to
reduce your rates? But you don't even
| now appear to be in any haste to deliver
yourself from this assumed outlines.
If you think two tariffs, the distance
and local, cannot co-exist under the law,
you have an easy remedy; you can
abolish your distance tariff altogether
and make a uniform tariff upon the basis
of the rates liked by US from and to New
ton, Great Bend and Usage City, and
State Line. This will simplify matters,
and will be in no wise an evasion of the
effect of our decision. You have right
to adopt any rates below those we have
prescribed.
Again you say: The following will be
the rates for the nineteen. miles haul for
the chief articles transported coming
from Atchison:
Lumber, 1c per $50 pounds, or $40 per
car Of II tons; wheat, &c per 100 pounds,
or $1.20 per car of II tons; -four, lie per
100 pounds, or $2.40 per car of II tons;
corn and other grains, 1c per 100 pounds,
or $2.40 per car of II tons; coal, &c per
100 pounds, or 6Oc per car of II tons;
salt, 1c per 100 pounds, or $40 per car
OF II tons; cattle and hogs, 81 per car;
horses and mules, 81 per car.
N
your Honorable Board on business to
and from Wichita, we find that the rates
which would be. allowed to us, for this
nineteen miles haul, would be as follows:
Lumber, BE per 100 pounds, or $l.20 per
car of II tons; wheat, &c per 100 pounds,
or $3.50 per car of II tons; -four, &c per
100 pounds, or $3.50 per car of II tons;
corn and other grain, &c per 100 pounds,
or 81. 20 per car of II tons; coal, &c per 100
pounds, or $2.12 per car of II tons; salt,
&c per 100 pounds, or $3.50 per car of II
tons; cattle and hogs, $3.50 per car;
horses and mules, $3.50 per car.
Again you are in error, as the follow
ing will show: For nineteen miles haul
your local tariff rate is, in cents per 100
pounds:
Tariff rates: Lumber &c, wheat &c,
-four &c, corn sc, coal 43c, salt &c; cattle
and hogs, per car, $1,000.
Commissioners distance tariff rate:
Lumber &c, wheat &c, flour &c, corn &C.
coal 33c, salt &c; cattle and hogs, per car,
$1,000.
But what you mean is the rate for
nineteen miles at the end of long haul
from Atchison to Kingman, for instance
But this you know to be misleading. Il
you were to divide your road for that dis
lance into sections of nineteen miles,
and charge the rate for a short haul over
each section, the sum of the rates for the
whole distance would confscate every
product you carried.
But you add: GA much more impor.
tant point to our company in connection
; with this matter is not only the loss Of
: revenue for this nineteen miles haul, but