Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-15
RAILWAY TARIFFS.
Some More Decisions by the
Commerce Commission.
THOSE PENSION RE-RATINGs AGAIN

A Score of Government Employees Who
wiu Suffer Through the InvaIidstion of
Manderson's Graut-An VIII Have to
Refund the Money MISUNDERSTANDING
Rats In tho White House-Governor
Hili's Brief stop-A Noble Citizen.
WASHINGTON CITY, Oct 15-The inter-
state commission announced several decis-
ions yesterday. Ia the case OF Henry Nc
Moran and Edmund B. Harrington, millers
and dealers in grain at Port Huron, Mich,
against the Grand Trunk Railway company
| Of Canada, and the Chicago and Grand
Trunk Railway company, the opinion holds
| that when a difference in rates on grain and
grain products is unreasonable, the relation
oil local to through rates should not BE- I'M
duly disproportionate. Grain and grain
products, classified alike, are presumptively
entitled TO equal rates, and if a Differences is
made by carrier il assumes the burden of
sustaining 1t by satisfactory evidence
The Canadian Grand Trunk.
Upon the complaint against theGrand Trunk
railway of Canada for alleged unreasonable
| ness of a rate of eight cents hundred pounds
on grain and ten cents hundred pounds on
grain products from Port Huron to Buffalo,
as compared with through rate of fifteen
cents hundred pounds from Chicago to
Buffalo over the line formed by that road
and the Chicago and Grand Trunk road,
the commission decides that, though the
local rste from Port Huron to Buffalo might
be regarded as disproportionate on the basis
OF distance alone, other considerations are
involved, and in view of the terminal and
ferry expenses at Port Huron, the Niagara
bridge charges AMI the Buffalo terminal ex-
penses, all OF which are borne by the Grand
Trunk railway OF Canada alone upon bus
iness originating at Port Huron, the COM
plant against the eight-cent rate
on grain Is not sustained; but no good
reason having been shown for higher rate
ON grain products, that portion Of the COM
plant is sustained, and the products ordered
to be carried at the same rate as grain.
Carload Rates on Cattle.
In the of Abiel Leonard and Logan
B. Chappele against the Chicago and Alton
Railroad company, il is held that the main
question in these cases was whether carriers
can rightfully substitute for the practice Of
charging carload rates on cattle, irrespec-
tive OF weight, the rule that while a car-lot
rate is named, a minimum weight for a car
- is prescribed, aud any excess over the
minimum is TO be charged for by the hun
oFeu Pounus III pTopoTtioh 10 Tue car-iOt
rates The commission decides that this rule
is not unlawful, and, being more in proper
ton to the service rendered, it is prima
facie more just and reasonable than the
practice it supplanted.
The State Must stand Aside.
Upon the hearing it was shown that BY
state law or the rulings of state commits
sions, shippers of cattle in Kansas or Mis-
sour, to points within the state had the
right to load cars without regard to weight
at a standing price per car 1t was said that
the rule was the same in some other states,
and the commission was urged to conform
thereto. The commission holds that such
state action is not a reason for adopting the
like rule in Interstate traffic, if that course
is found not TO be most just and polite. The
grant to the federal government of the
power to regulate interstate commerce is
full and complets, and can not BE- narrowed
or encroached upon by state authority, either
directly or indirectly.