The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-11
PLEDGES MUST Be GIVEN.
The Traffic Association in
Politics.
NO RAILROAD LEGISLATURE.
Fruit.Shippers Enter Protest Against the
Southern Pacifes Methods - The
Railroad Commission.

There was meeting yesterday OF the
committee in charge of the ARRANGEMENTS
for the first annual meeting of the Traffic
Association of California, which will be
held in the Merchants Exchange on We'd
neSday, the 26th inst.
All the preliminaries were talked over,
and there is no doubt but the associations
officers will present reports of their work
during the year which will be highly salts
factory.
Besides the holding Of this anniversary
meeting. the Traffic Association will devote
lis entire time until election day to prOmot-
ing the interests of the merchants aud ship
pers by doing some active political work.
In this they will be supported and assisted
by the League of Progress.
The leading men in both organizations are
very much alive to the necessities of the
day. and are working hard to meet them in
an effective manner.
A circular letter has been addressed TO
the county clerks throughout the State, ask
ing Tor the names OF the legislative candi-
dates l. ON each county.
Answers are already pouring in daily,
and when they are all in all the nominees
Will be directly asked to put themselves on
record as friends Of the people OF as friends
of the railroad company.
1neS VIII De asked 10 sign n pledge TO the
effect that they will see that the Legisla-
ture shall Immediately after assembling
proceed to adopt measures calculated 10
bring relief to the State from the present
railroad oppression"
Among the relief measures to be asked for
are principally the adjustment of the Rail-
road Commission as it stands to-day, and an
all around reduction of freight and pas
senger rates.
The Traffic Association and the League
oil Progress are great deal more in earnest
about these matters than they are generally
given credit to be, and they are fully de-
termlned TO leave no stone unturned until
they have carried the measures they con-
sider necessary for tie welfare of the public
When the various candidates have sent in
their responses to demands for pledges
which Will be mailed to them the Traffic
Association Will set to work TO devise means
whereby to defeat all those who refused to
sign the pledge.
And when the Legislature OF 1898 shall
assemble trusted agents of the two big
mercantile protective associations will be on
hand to see that every signer of that pledge
carries out lis provisions.
great many complaints are coming In
daily from the fruit-grOwers in various sec
tions OF the State, WHO say that the Southern
Paetc does not afford them sufficient facii-
ties TO ship their produce East on fast time.
AT The beginning of the season, when the
crops were light, regular train Of venti-
lated cars left Sacramento nightly direct
for Chicago and arrived there in five days
time.
The fruit which is shipped now, during
the height OF the season, is delayed ten and
eleven days before it reaches Chicago. and
unless i IS shipped in refrigerator cars. at
cost OF 1913 per carload, 1t 10 spuiled before
ii reaches the market in the Windy City.
The difference in the rates between ven-
tlated and refrigerator cars is just S125 per
- hot MN nh
Ii is the opinion Of the shippers that the
Southern Pacific delays fruit-trains pur-
posely so as to make increased business for
the ice companies, who have the contract
Of icing the refrigerator cars.
Political J0bber Jim" Rea met Banker
Beckman OF Sacramento for few minutes
yesterday morning and they called il a
meeting Of the Board OF Railroad Commits
sioners.
Tailor Litehfeld was absent. he being on
WISH 10 some local mines he has become
financially interested in since Mr. Hunting
ton has made him a Railroad Commissioner.
Sim" Rea laughingly told Beckman that
II Was true that he missed last weeks meet
ing on purpose, because he wanted 10 stay
on the San Jose racetrack. Then Secretary
read.
The Glenwood Lumber Company, which
in June last fled a complaint against the
Southern Pacific Company, charging il with
%
the Bowder Creek Lumber Company,
wrote asking that the complaint be with
drawn.
The request was granted.
This is about the 999th time that COM
pany has filed and withdrawn similar CON-
plants.
Charles Comfy of Comfy Station, Sacra-
mento County, wrote to the effect that he
considered the freight charges on the lone
branch of the Southern Pacific Company
excessive, and that he wanted a reduction.
The letter was referred TO the Southern
Pacific Company.
The Southern California Railway Com
pany submitted q new tariff sheet, which
was ordered filed.
Then this most important meeting ad-
jOuTned 10 the cali of the chair.
Secretary Kelly furnished the informal
information that Richard p. MOrgan's, the
Ohio experts. report on the Shively con-
plant would be ready in about fifteen days.