The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-11-25
WANTS OF CHANGERS
Changes In the Present Interstate Com
mercc Law suggested, Giving the Com.
mission More Power To Prescribe the
Tariff of the Roads.

mercc Law Suggested, Giving the Conn
mission More Power To Prescribe the
Tariff of the Roads.
Grange. after being In session for ten
days. completed its work yesterday.
A very elaborate report from the COM
mittee on transportation was presented
and adopted. IL detailed many OF the
complaints against carriers, among
them elevator charges, manipulation OF
rates through milling in transit
privilege" cutting of export rates so
that the middleman can ship from the
interior TO the seaboard cheaper than
the producer; the unintelligipility OF
rate sheets posted at railway stations.
etc. The report recommended several
amendments TO the interstate COM
merce law:
THAT the procedure in the courts
TO enforce the orders of the commits
sion should be confined TO the record
made up of the testimony taken before
the commission, and the order of the
commission should be enforced unless
the court shall find in such proceedings
some material error prejudicial, to the
carrier which furnishes sufficient rea-
son for refusing to enforce it.
More Power for the Commission.
2.-That the commissioners should
have power to require, after investiga-
ton and inquiry that the rates, facili-
ties, or practices involved in
the case shall be changed
modified, or corrected as specified
in the order so that when the commits
sion has determined what is unlaw-
full IL shall be its duty to prescribe
what is lawful In respect TO such rates,
facilities. or practices
- That uniform classification OF
freight articles should be established
without delay, and the commissioners
required TO conform to such classical
ton.
Through Rates for Freight.
4.-That the commission should have
power TO require connecting carriers
TO establish through routes for con-
tinuous carriage rates for shipments
over such routes, and in case OF dis
agreement between carriers in regard
to division of rate between them the
commission should have power to de-
termine the apportionment Of through
rates between the several carriers
5.-That the commission should have
authority and determine and prescribe
the form. contents and arrangement
of the schedules and joint tariffs of
rates required by the act TO be pub
lished and filed, and from time to time
change such prescribed form, etc., as
may be found expedent.
6.-That the charging OF higher rates
on domestic traffic than for like SER
vice for through export or import traffic
should be distinctly prohibited
Committee Recommends Discussion.
THAT the commission should have
authority to require the prompt filing
of annual and monthly reports by
carriers. The committee recommends
the discussion of transportation mat
tiers generally, and particularly those
arising from time TO time in vari-
Gus localities. in the local
oranges. and that our senators
and representatives in congress be
asked. as occasion may demand. to take
necessary action for removal of trans
portation abuses by suitable legisla-
ton.
The reciprocity resolution was tabled
because it trenched on politics.
Protection for Farm Products.
The report Of the committee on agri-
culture recited that the conditions con-
fronting the farmers had not material
ly changed during the year and that
I'VE believe that policy which will
stimulate home consumption to the ex-
tent of affording an opportunity to
every man to earn fair wages, and
thereby become liberal consumer, to
be'the true American policy" Recent
events, the report held, left no room
for doubt that protection Is to be the
policy Of the incoming administration
and it demanded that in the revision
of the customs duties farm products
shall be as fully and amply protected
as those OF the factory.