Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-02
THE CAPITAL CITY CRIST.
Inaction OF the Tran sportation
Board on Live Stock Rates.
A LETTER TO SECRETARY GA RBeR
state senator Sutherland Promises
To Stir Things Up-A Too Trust
full Daughter OF Africa-The
City in Brief.

LINCOLN BUREAU OF Tus OMAHA BEE,
1929 Il STREET,
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct l.
State Senator J. II. Sutherland, of Teka-
mah under date of September 2S, addressed
the following letter TO w. S. CAREER, score
tary of the state board of transportation;
II am not satisfied with the action, or
rather lack OF action, on tho part of the
board of transportation, with respect TO that
portion of the Sutherland Manning VS. Chi
cago. st Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha COM
pany complaints, relating to live stock rates.
infer from newspaper reports of the pro-
ceedings of tho board, sitting In review of
your report aud opinion upon these cases,
that the meeting was adjourned without TAX
ing formal action on the recommendation
that all roads, operating lines from interior
points in the state to Omaha, be cited before
the board 70 show cause why their rates on
shipments of live stock should not be re-
duced TO correspond with rates on Kansas
roads, to Kansas City markets, for CORE.
spending distances: neither have / been able
TO discover that action has been taken at any
subsequent sitting Of the board
ut Is my purpose to again present to the
board the unjustness of our live stock rates
OF transportation 10 home markets, compared
with the rates in force under similar cond-
IN comparison with rates in effect several
years back, since which time there has been
80 marked a falling off in the marketable
values of cattle without any proportionate
decrease in the traffic; and for this latter
reason, III no other, there Is well grounded
reasons for concessions in the carriers
charges.
81 shall renew the complaint with the
prospect that stripped of screening issues,
no member of the board will longer refuse TO
rpcOunlZp IutV nNyiny N n npOplp itlpl N
relie I from unjust corporate eXactions.
Now, Mr.. CARRIER that all sections of the
state may be afforded that measure of relief
due TO 1t in the light of facts capable of pres
entation, aud that no one line of road may he
confined to schedules of maximum charges
while other lines engaged in similar traffic,
are left unrestricted in their exactions, pro-
pose arraigning the schedules of all Nebraska
roads carrying live stock to the Omaha
market: and to this end | would req uest of
you statement containing such details of
rates now in effect for the Omaha and Kan
sas City markets for like distances from
points in Nebraska and Kansas, as will
enable me To petition the board with the best
prospects of the matter receiving thorough
consideration and evoking an early and IA
vorable decisonn
In accordance with the above the secretary
has compiled the desired tables of rates from
charts and tabling which he has recently
worked up with view to again submitting
to the board recommendations backed by ad-
dltlonai facts, with respect TO obvious dis
ordinations in our stock rates of transpor-
tation, and these tables and additional infor
NATION pertinent to the question he will send
along to the senator as a basis of complaint
The public can confidently look forward to
considerable activity in rate regulation in
the near future. a considerable number of
petitions ara soon to be filed with the board
their object being To secure to The public
needed relief from the excessive tolls of the
carrying corporations. The members of the
board will have to show the good people of
what stuff they are made.