The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-22
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the Kansas City rate, a rate prevailing
for a number OF years prior to March,
1911 and that the act of a polishing said
dl1Ierentlal freight rate in favor of
compartments is unjust and a serious
detrIment to their business
the pleadings show the claim on the
part Of the respondent IS that at the
time the differentiaI of five cents per
hundred pounds on wheat to Topeka
was esta bIShed, a like differentiaI
against Topeka ana IN favor of Kansas
city on east-bound shipments was in
fOTee, and that to equalize this rate
ana place the TnIllers of Topeka on an
equal basis with the nai1lers of Kansas
City, this differentia1 Of five cents per
hundred pounds on wheat in favor of
topeka was esta blished, and that the
said d1fferentiaI in favor of Kansas
city m1Ilers on east-bound shipments
having been removed, there no longer
exists the reason for continuing the
peka-
A trial of the cause was had before
the full board. at their Office in Toe
peka, Kas., on the Sd day of August
The evidence shows that prior to and
at the time Of the establishn ent of the
i've cent ddfferential on wheat in favor
OF Topeka millers, a like differential
rate existed in favor of Kansas City
m1llers on their mill products shipped
to eastern points, and that prior to
abolishing the I'VE cent differential in
favor of Topeka, on wheat shipped
from western points, the five cent diff
ferentia1 in favor Of Kansas City to
eastern markets had been abolished.
The evidence in this case further
shows that there is at this time a one
cent per hundred pounds diferential in
favor of Topeka millers, against the
Kansas City millers, on the products of
such mills shipped to eastern points,
a right and privilege which extends to
all Kansas milling centers. consequent
~ the prevailing rates are in favor of
Kansas millers on their products
shipped to- eastern markets.
It also appears from the evidence in
this case that the compliments are op-
Grating under what is known as the
milling in transit rate, a right and
privilege enjoyed by all Kansas millers
on respondents road: that on all wheat
shipped into Topeka, from western
points, under the former five cent diff
ferential rate-the rate now contended
for by conplainants-an manufac-
tured into flour and shipped to eastern
markets, the flour then would pay an
rate from point of origin to points of
destination one cent per hundred less
than the through rate, via Kansas City,
and wheat shipped to the Topeka mills
to be 'milled in transit under the
prevailing rates, costs the compliments
the same amount of freight,-so that all
the benefits that would inure to COM
plalnanIS under the former hYe cent
diferential rate" over the present mill
ing in transit rate would be on that
portion of the wheat shipped to them
from western points, milled in Topeka,
and sold to the home or local trade and
in nearby localities.
The evidence in this case further
shows that the combined capacity of
the Topeka mills is three thousand two
hundred barrels of -four per day, MAX
ing an annual output of flour approxi-
mating one million barrels, and that
seventy per cent of the output of
compliments mills, or 10000 barrels,
is shipped to eastern markets upon
which compliments, under the prevail
ing rates. enjoy one cent per hundred
diferential over the Kansas City mills
and that twenty-five per cent-Or $780,
600 barrels-of the output of complain
ants mills is used for local cOnsump-
ton or sent to nearby localities, and 1t
is this portion only that would be al
fected, should the prayer of the COM
case only the question whether or not
this board would be warranted in
granting such differential, thereby CIV
ing the compliments a monopoly on
Is per cent Of the product of their mills,
as against all other mills in the state,
sas would not enjoy a like privilege and
protection on the trade of their re-
spective localities.
AS shown by the pleadings and evil
dence in this case. the freight rates on
both flour and wheat to all Kansas
points and on all Kansas railroads are
the same. but when the five cent diff
ferentia1 was given to complainants, by
respondent railroad company on wheat
the same rate was not made to apply to
-four nor a. like reduction on bran and
shorts so that during this period of
over twenty years, the compliments