Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-06

be sought through the state board
OF transportation, If the jobbers fail to
get redress from the railroads.
The pretense that the Chicago & North
western and the Chicago, Burlington a.
Quincy, having lines of their own in
Nebraska, compel all other roads to
adopt their discriminating tariffs will
not hold good before any fair tribunal.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
terminates at Pacific Junction in Iowa.
The Burlington 81 Missouri river road
in Nebraska is as much Nebraska rail
way as the Omaha s. Republican Valley
branch Of the Union Pacific. The own
crs Of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
own a controlling interest in the Bur-
lington & Missouri River in Nebraska,
but that does not change the relations of
the latter road to the state OF Nebraska
and to the people OF Nebraska.
In other words, when the Chicago, Bur-
lington g. Quincy takes freight from
Chicago for Beatrice or Lincoln its
agency as public carrier terminates at
the Missouri river, just the same as if
the Chicago. Milwaukee 81 st. Paul
road had taken freight at Chicago for
Lincoln and Beatrice, and delivered the
same to the Union Pacific. The pro-
rate which the Burlington g. Missouri
in Nebraska gets as its portion for car
rying through freight from the Mis-
souri, river to Lincoln and Beatrice can
only be reasonable and just when ar
ranged so as not to discriminate against
points through which its freight
passes beyond the western terminus of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
The rate from Chicago to the Missouri
river, whether at Plattsmouth or
Omaha, should be uniformly the same
on traffic terminating at those points
and on traffic which goes beyond them
to the interior of the state. The desire
to serve the interest which the owners
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
has in the Nebraska lines does not JUS
tify nor warrant higher or lower
allowance to the Burlington in Nebraska
from the Missouri river westward than
is charged to shippers at Omaha and
Plattsmouth on carload freight to the
same points. This applies equally to
the Chicago 81 Northwestern. That
road terminates in Iowa. The Omaha
g. st. Paul and the Fremont, Elk
horn & Missouri Valley roads
are Nebraska corporations. They
| are to be operated under
regulations of the state of Nebraska for
all local commerce, and upon all inter-
state commerce the tariff should be
gaugcd so as not to discriminate against
localities at their termini. If the Bur-
lington & Missouri River and the Elk
horn Valley roads can afford to carry
through freights from the river to in
terror points at less rates than
they are charging their patrons
at the river for the same
service they should be made to reduce
| their local rates. If, on the other hand
the pro rata rate at which the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago &
| Northwestern are carrying carload
freight to interior points in Nebraska is
lower from Chicago TO the Missouri
river points than they charge for the
same class of freight delivered at
Omaha, their rate between Chicago
and Omaha is excessive and should be
| lowered. In order to be reasonable the
tariff from the eastern terminals of the
roads ending at the Missouri river must
! be uniform, whether such freight is de-
| livered to connecting roads or delivered
| to iobbers located at their western
| terminals.