The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-18


ton against the proposed suspension
of the long and short haul clause as
affecting this section, which comes
up for argument before the interstate
commerce commission at Washington
today:
Salt Lake City. Utah,
Decembe a. 1896.
The Honorable, the Interstate Commerce
commission of the United States:
conference.-the undersigned hereby en-
Ter protest against granting the applica-
ton of the Atchison, Topeka q Santa
re railway company, the Denver & Rio
G NJ hallWay company, the Rio Grande
W estern Railway company, the Southern
Paclflc company, George w. Ristine re-
ceiver of the Colorado Midland Railway
company, and S. II. H. Clark, Oliver ".
Mink, e. Ellery Anderson, John w
Doane, and Frederick r. Coudert, receiv-
ers of the Union Pacific Railway COM
pany, for suspension of the long and
snort haul clause of the fourth section
OF the act TO regulate commerce. for the
reasons hereinafter set forth, to-wit:
First-We deny that the Influence of
water competition from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific coast. by way of the Isthmus of
Panama and Cape Horn, supplemented by
the competition of producing markets
from the interior of the United States,
aided by railroad carriers engaged in such
traffic to and from Colorado common
sufficient for the suspension of the long
and short haul clause in said act
Second-We deny that the rates now
carried by joint freight tariff ice No.
1872, published by said petitioners. from
Colorado common points to California
common points, would be unremunera-
tive in the aggregate to said carriers when
applied TO Salt Lake City, and other in
termediate points.
Third-We deny that said tariff ICC No
Ss2 does contain rates upon commodities
generally from Colorado common points to
California terminals as set forth in the
application of petitioners, but only on
specific articles such as the state OF Cole
RADIO produces.
Fourth-Said petitioners have now in
force joint freight tariff known as ICC
No. 2. naming rates from Colorado COM
mon points to Utah common points, less
in the aggregate than upon like. commodi-
ties as carried in tariff ICC No. 1912 from
Colorado common points to California
common points. (See attached schedule
marked Exhibit A.'D
Therefore, in the opinion of the under
signed, petitioners have some motive other
than appears on the face of said applica-
ton; and if the prayer of the petitioners
is granted they will, in our opinion, abro
gate tariff ice No 2, now in force be-
common points, and issue higher tariff
rates betwees said points than from Colo
RADIO common points to California terminal
points.
Fifth-Should the application of said
petition be granted by your honorable
commission, it would in effect nullify
the long and short haul clause in the
act to regulate commerce, when applied
to the principal markets of the United
States on traffic destined to the Pacific
coast via the Great Trans-Continental
routes, to the injury and detrlment of all
intermediate points not named in appli-
cation of petitioners.
We, therefore pray that your honor
able commission will not grant the appli-
cation of said petitioners. Oamely; The
Atchison-Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company, the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway company. the Rio Grande West
ern Railway company, the Southern Pa
ceiver of the Colorado Midland Railway
company, and S. II. Fl. Clark, Oliver w.
Mink, E. Ellery Anderson, John W.
Doane. and Frederick r. Coudert, re-
ceivers of the Union Pacific Railway
company to charge less for longer than
for shorter distances for the transporta-
ton of property as set forth in their
petition.
time has not been given the business in
terests of this city, Ogden, etc, 10 con-
slider SO grave a proposition as has been
presented by the railway lines to your
unless your honorable commission is
satisfied as to the truth of the matter
herein mentioned, that action on the
application of said lines be postponed,
person, firm, company, corporation, COM
mittee, or commercial body of this state
by your honorable commission. at some
point within the territory effected by the
application of petitioners; and the under
signed be furnished true copy by your
honorable commission of the verified
statement" furnished by petitioners,
setting forth specifically the rates pro-
posed to be charged by petitioners under
a suspension of said fourth section of
the act to regulate commerce.
Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce ny
". A. NELDEN,
EDWARD I CoLBoRN.
Utah Jobbers' Association by
THCS. G. WEBER,
s. H. LOVE,
Secretary.
The principal reason the jobbers and
the chamber of commerce are protest
ing against the granting of the appli-
cation for the suspension of the long
and short haul clause of the interstate
act is, that they believe il is
companies asking it, to nullify
the act.
They take the position that the prin-
cipal contention of the railroads is I'M
tenable That contention is this: The
roads represent that the rates which
they charge for freight shipped from
Denver 20 the coast are made so low
in order to compete with water compe-
tition rates; that they are unremuner
ative when applied II intermediate
points.
The iobbers and the chamber base
their claim that this contention is IN
tenahle uDon the tariff sheet which
governs the rates on goods shipped
from Denver to the coast and which
has been in operation for a long time.
A copy of this tariff accompanied the
protest and was marked exhibit A. 1t
shows that on almost every article of
shipped from Colorado to
the coast, the rate TO Salt Lake IS less
by considerable than it IS to the coast !
From this they argue that If the
rates charged to the coast are unre-
when applied to inferno
date points the railroads would not
be long in putting in tariff that
would raise the rates to intermediate
points as high as they are to the coast,
which they are entitled to do under
the long and short haul clause.
This the jobbers and the chamber
contend knocks out the principal argu-
nent of the roads in favOr OF the APP
Dlication and clearly establishes their
theory that the move is simply in
tended to nuilify the act.
Should the application of the roads
De granted, Salt Lake would be put at
L very serious disadvantage, as it
would enable the roads 70 charge any
rate they might see fit for freight to
Salt Lake.
The jobbers and the chamber hope
o influence the interstate commerce
commission to delay their decision on
he application till they can come west I