New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-07
CHICAGO PACKERS COMPLAINING,
RAILROADS CHANGED WITH EXTORTION
GRIEVANCE INVOLVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
THE RATES on DRESSED MEATS TOO HIGH UN-

A GRIEVANCE INVOLVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
THE RATES on DRESSED MEATS TOO HIGH UN-
DER THE INTERs FATE LAW.
CHICAGO. JAM Five mmense petitions have bccp
sent from the various dressed beef and canning COM
panes to the Interstate Commerce Commission This
Is the beginning Of lawsuit, involving millions Of
dollars, which will be brought in the United States
Supreme Court, and involves the consttuionality
the Interstate law. The individual damages claimed
by losses IN rebates since the enfo cement of the law
amount sto S950000, follows S. W. Allerton
$4,000; Nelson Morris, 100000; p. D. Armour
100000; G. II. Hammond 100000; c. +. Swift
100000. Senator Edmunds and Don NJ. Dickinson
of counsel for the beef companies. The beef
companies mentioned are these which have formally
petitioned for relief
The common carrers have established the rate Of
65 cents per 100 pounds dressed beef, sheep and
hogs in refrigerator for It's carriage in contin
uOus transportation from the Union Stock Yards to
NewYork and to intermediate points in proportion.
The petitioners load AID unload the cars and ship at
their risk relieving the roads of much labor The
rate now exacted, and which has been exacted since
the into force Is Ia 1o per greater than
the average published tariff rate for the
prior TO that date.
For the transportation Sf dressed beef, sleep and
hogs bewccn initial and terminal points 35 cents
100 pounds more is demanded than for the transpora
ton Of package provisions, and 80 cents per 100 pounds
although the car the tmc the initial and terminal
points, the length direction and character of haul the
product and value and every other condition and
circumstance substantially the same, except tho
difference in rates. Notwithstanding these facts tho
charges for transportation ot dressed bce sheep ana
hogs arc per cent mora than for The ifaDs-
pOrtation of meat provisions
The provision rate as fixed by the common carriers
is an ami pie and lemunera,e ldte for the service rem
dercd Such freight at this rate is eagerly sought by
the railways.
average rate provisions for the last six years
was 20 cents per 100 pounds. They were carried In
refrigerator cars, ice and salt provided free Tor all
shippers of provisions prior TO April D, 1907, al less
than published rates. hen the act o. Congress went
into effect the tariff rate reduced from 80 cen
30 cents per 100 pounds TO make the published
rate CORES pond TO the actual rate About 20 per cen'
of the package provisions and bukmcais shipped east
wardly from the Union Stock Yards and Chicago are
shipped in refrigerator cars ,. /. o,,.,o On
The from Missouri River points to Chicago % on
provisions other kinds of freight are the same,
or substantially the same, the rates from CmcaSo
10 York except I'm the case OF dressed Decf sheep
and hogs in which case the rate from Chicago to New
York Is moro than 100 per cent greater than the rate
from Missouri River points TO Chicago
In tho matter of rates charged by Southern and
Western railroads the roads charged difference In
rates on dressed beef of cents per 100 pounds as
remunerative Therefore the dressed beef men de-
mand a reduction In dressed beef rates OF % cents