The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-18
PLANT.
Garry Terminal Charges Before
Interstate Commission.
LARGE INTERESTS BEHIND THEM.

cattle shippers Complain of the Terminal
Charge of ~ Per Car on Live Stock In
Addition to the Rate to Chicago-Point
at Issue Has Been yariousiy Decided in
Other Cases-New York Also Has q
Grievance.
Washington, Nov. 1S.-There are a
number OF important cases pending be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion, some of which may be decided
soon, while others are yet being inves-
tigated by the commission. The Ar
kansas and Kansas grain rate cases,
which grew out of a complaint of minor
Importance, have developed until many
questions and various lines in the west
are now involved. The Kansas board
or railway commissioners are among
the complainants and the subject of
rates from Missouri river points and
milling I'm transit are affected. The
export cases are still being investi-
gated by the commission. Different
roads are complained against, 1t being
asserted that they have issued from
poool and other points abroad in which
the transatlantic share OF the rate
was less than the rates to the sea-
board
New York Has IA Grievance.
One of the most important case be-
fore the commission is the complaint
made by the New York Produce ex-
change against trunk lines to the sea-
board, charging discrimination against
New York city and in favor of Boston
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Newport
News. A similar question was decided
quarter of a century ago by com
mission of arbitration consisting o.
Judge Cooley, Senator Thurman, ant
Elihu Il. Washburne. In the southwes
there are several and ont
case which is considered important Il
| that Of the Texas common point rat
| from various points on the missouri
and Mississippi rivers. 1t involve
| rates on carload and less than carloa
lots TO distributing points in Texas
| Nearly all these distributing centers i
| Texas get the same rates from a
| points. Galveston and other seaboar
points generally are not included. TIL
| complaint is made by the Bushes
| Mems league of st. Louis, which want
a rate on less than carload lots to lc
cal points outside of the distributin
centers the same as on carload lots.
Able to Compete with st. Louis.
| 1t is claimed by them that by reaso
of the carload lot rate being less tha
rates on broken carload lots, the di
uibuting points are able to compe
With st, Louis and other large whol
sale centers. The Dallas people, In q
same cases, complain against this Te
as common point rate. and want a loN
er rate where the haul is much ionge
Another case coming from Texa
, which has behind 1t the entire cattl
: Shipping interest. Is the terminal char
on cars of live stock shipped into Ci
cago. Formerly the roads entering Ci
cago charged a rate 10 that city whi
included delivery OF the car at the sto
| warts In 1894 the roads established
terminal charge OF 81 per car on II
stock in addition 70 the rate TO Chical
II Is of this additional charge that
cattlemen now complain. The imp
n the case Is incre ased by reas
Z the fact that in deci sion about I
years ago Judge crosscup OF Chica
hel. that charges in a case OF this
ture were illegal.
Reversed That Decision.
since then, however, the court OF
reals has reversed that decision.
u the complaint of the cattlemen is pr
N icated upon grounds differing In SO
respects from those involved In
case decided by Judge Grosscup. FL
the southern Atlantic seaboard col
% a case before the commission u
complaint of the Savannah Freight
sociation, in which II Is charged
o. the fertilizer rates from Charleston
noints in Georgia. Alabama, ana +
ce ida discriminate against Savannah
is asserted that the roads make
same rate from Charleston as from
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