The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-25
TO INVESTIGATE.
The Interstate Commission will
Look Into the Chicago Trouble.

CHICAGO, September o2-The indigna-
ton expressed by mel4 L nts and manu-
facturers throughout the country at the
course pursued by the transcontinental
roads in fixing the new tariff, has caused
the Inter- State Commerce Commission
to investigate the matter, without
waiting tor a formal complaint 20 be
made. Commissioner Aldace T. Walker
has taken the matter in hand and is
now collecting evidence on which to
base decision. Walker, who has given
the question of transcontinental rates
much thought, wrote the decision in the
well-known Denver case, which Is
taken by the Southern and Central
Pacific as a pretext for making the
present discriminative rates. He has
sent two messages TO Chairman
Midgley, of the Pacific Coast Associa-
ton, asking for the tariffs and rculars
now in effect, showing the rates or rules
for making the rates from the Atlantic
seaboard to intermediate points on the
transcontinental lines; from Buffalo,
Detroit, Chicago and the Mississ ppi
river; from the Pacific Coast to Colo
RADIO, Kansas and Nebraska, and any
OGiCI uSEoSSdIJ ~ give
him q complete understanding as the
situation.
MIDGELY Has COMPLIED
with the request to the extent of max.
ing statement of the matter, from his
standpoint. He informed Commission
er Walker that members .of the
Transcontinental Association were
in session at San Francisco when
his (Mr. Walker's) opinion was
received in the Denver case. whereupon
they adj ourned to meet in st Paul, the
understanding being that Wi thin sixty
days they must get their tariffs to con-
form to the opinions expressed in the
Denver decision. hey understood
that the disparities in classification on
intermediate and Pacific Coast business
were to be removed, and that the tariff
rates between eastern points I'D the
Pacific Coast should establish a maxi
mum to be charged for Intermediate
hauls. The Southern Pacific, which
from its commanding position on the
Pacific Coast, largely determines the
course to be pursued by the transcon-
tinental lines, announced at the St
Paul meeting that it mad decided to
COuloIn W TIC Views OuGlluGu III the
Denver decision. Then the tariff be-
tween Omaha and Kansas City and San
Francisco being So so first class, that Is
the maximum TO be charged for like
shipments from any point west of the
Missouri River, on one of the
direct lines to San Francisco. La
like manner rates were made between
Mississippi River points, Chicago, Pitts
burg, Buffalo, etc. But in regard to
the competitive traffic between New
York and Pacific Coast term mails, diff
ferent position was taken. The rates
were established with the idea of COM
peting with the clipper ships for bust
ness between the Atlantic seaboard
and the Pacific coast. The rates were
made low, but did not establish max
imum to be charged on like comnodi-
ties from the Atlantic to points on the
transcontinental lines east of the Pacific
Coast, which was considered to be in
conformity with the opinions expressed
in the Louisville & Nashville decision of
the Commission.
For further information Mr. Midgley
referred Commissioner Walker TO the
officers of the Transcontinental Associ-
atlCn.