Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-06
AFTER EQUAL Rates
Pittsburg Live Stock Dealers Prom
ised Equitable Treatment
AT THE HANDS OF THE RAILROADS
A Committee Of the Central Traffic Associa-
ton Will See They
ARE NOT DISSEMINATED AGAINST

The live stock dealers. of this city have
been making vigorous complaints recently
as to the practice said to exist among the
railroads at Indianapolis as to the rating of
cattle and other stock, which is sold and
changes hands at that point. The estab-
lished rule is that when a car
of stock is consigned through from
a point in the West to New York
or other Eastern points on through rate,
the through rate will be protected only on
condition that the stock does not change
hands or be sold at any intermediate point.
If it is placed on the market and sold, and
shipped East in other hands, then the local
rates into and out of the point where the
sale takes place are charged. This rule has
been confirmed by recent decisions of the
Interstate Commerce Commissioners,
and is closely lived up to at Pittsburg, and
also at Buffalo. Chicago and other prominent
live stock centers 1t has been claimed,
however, that the railroads at indianapolis
did not enforce this rule, and hence the
buyers in that market on shipping their
stock East are frequently able to get much
lower rates from that point than the tariffs
called for, as, by arrangement with the
Western drovers who brought the stock into
indianapolis from the West, they can get
the benefit of through rate from the orig
inal point of shipment through to its des-
tination.
LEFT TO COMMITTEE.
The dealers at Buffalo have been making
the same complaint, and the matter was
brought to the attention of Chairman
Blanchard, of the Central Traffic Associa-
tion. AT his request meeting of the Off
GERS of the roads centering at In
Friday, and telegram received here
last evening states that the matter
was gone into very thoroughly at the meet
ing, and finally the whole subject was re-
ferred to the General Freight Committee of
the association, which meets in Chicago
this week. Mr.. Blanchard deputed Paul
p. Rainer. chief inspector of the Joint Rate
Committee, together with c. E. E. Chill
ders. joint agent of the association in this
city, and j. II. Pake, its agent at Buffalo,
to attend the meeting and explain to the
indianapolis roads how the rule was en-
forced at other points
A reporter of THE DISPATCH called on
Mr.. Childers at his Office in the Penn
the subject. Mr.. Childers said he had Just
returned from Indianapolis, but was not
at liberty to state what passed at the meet
ing, which was a private one. He could
state, however, that the object of the asso-
citation in this and other such matters was
simply to bring about uniform practice at
all points by the various railroads, so that
shippers in one locality might not be dis
criminated against and put at disadvan-
tage with their competitors at other points
WILL GET EQUAL RATES
The live stock dealers at P1ttsburg would
be given the same advantages, so far as
freight rates were concerned, as were en-
joyed by dealers at any other point. If
rule was just and proper, it should be
observed equally at ali points On the
other hand, if it was right to waive it at
any point it should be abrogated generally
and not enforced at any point.
The stockmen in this locality will await |
the issue of the question in anxiety, as it |
closely affects their interests. 1t is hoped |
that the action taken by the Central Traffic |
Association meeting this week in Chicago |
will satisfactorily dispose of the question.