The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-20

ant general freight agent of the Gulf. Colo
f fpc,sb ana s,d santa Fci T. Martin genera
general freight agent Of the Arkansas Pass
q. II. Turner, general freight agent, aua
j. u. bartholomew, assistant general frelyh,
agent OF the international and Great
Northern; T. :. Miller. general attorne3
for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
CLASS RATES TAKEN UP.
The railroad commission met this morn.
ing in adjourned regular monthly session
with the following eases pending on IT.
docket
Complaint Of violation of compress regula.
tions against the Houston and Texas Ten
tral railway by the Giddings Compress
company.
Proposed reduction of stock cattle rates.
Proposed reimbursement Of rates on sugar
aud molasses, in straight or mixed car.
loads, from stations on the Cane Belt rail
road. Wharton to Eagle Lake inclusive to
Houston aud Galveston.
Proposed rcadjustment aud reduction of
class rates.
BY agreement the three first matters
were passed over to take up the class rate
proposition owing To the Importance there.
OF and the large number of parties interest.
ed therein In attendance.
Expressions of opinion with regard TO the
class rates recently submitted for discus.
sion by the railroads having been called
/ for, Mr.. G. +. Byers, spokesman for the
committee representing Houston, came for
ward and stated that they were perfectly
satisfactory TO the Houston mercantile ana
manufacturing interests and that they had
been prepared with "A view to equalizlng
Texas with the outside as far as could he
fairly aud justly done.
j. Farley, manager of the Dallas flslght
bureau, said that his people wOuld be thank
/ full to the commission II the proposed re
auctions were made as they considered
! the adjustment submitted long step In
the right direction. Dallas would like TO
/ have wider difference between third and
f! fourth class rates than It was proposed to
| make. however and he submitted torin
| ne had prepared TO show what would suit
! Dallas in this matter
Mr.. George Trumbull OF Dallas, president
! Of the Texas Hardware Dealers associa-
ton, spoke in approval of the proposed
readJustment and reduction Of class rates.
| As matters now stand, he said, more than
30 per cent of the hardware jobblng In
| the State Is done from the outside. Under
| the proposed tariff much larger stocks could
he carried in Texas and much more Texas
business could be. done by Texas mcr-
chants. Under existing rates, Mr.. Trum-
bull asserted that there were few articles
in the hardware line in which the Texas
joRl,6,er can compete at any distance worth yy3
he liked best in the proposed tarlf
was the reductions 1t makes In nearby
rates. The Texas hardware merchant now
has slight advantage over his outside
competitor for twenty miles. For the next
| eighty miles he is about on a parity with
The outside Beyond that he is not in T.
NluelN per cent OF lle pOOuS ne NOW StllN
within a radius OF thirty miles. Mr.. TrWn
bull said, were delivered by wagon ana not
by rail. And this applied to goods sold
to country dealers, as local merchants use
wagons,
Judge Perkins, general attorney OF tn,
Cotton Belt, took Mr.. rrumbul in han,
and trled to make him admit that wagol
hauling was n benefit to Dallas or an!
other iobbing center wncre II Is practiced
but failed 10 make him admit that oxcar
transportation was good enough for Texas
/ MIR. II. f. Bell Of Weathcrford, sccretRr!
Of the Texas Hardware Dealers HsSocia
tion. submitted n table Of comparisons o
rates showing the disadvantages unde
which Texas iohborS labored in competing
with the outside and asked that IL be con
sldercd as evidence Mr.. Johnston OF III
Santa Fe asked leave to correct certain
inaccuracies which he claimed said tah
contained and the privilege was granted.
Continuing. Mr.. Bell was OF the sam
opinion as Mr.. rrgubull as to the desira
hllty OF the proposed readjustment. II
wanted Dallas to be equaized with tn
outside instead OF having the outside con
, tmuaiy equalzed with him; he did no
have TO go out very far, under existing nd
iustmCntS, TO meet interstate competition
for IL was felt as near as thirty miles, TO
he did not haye to go farther to lind tina
! the combination through his point wa
met for the benefit OF st. Louis and othe
jobblng centers in other States.
Recess 10 %. IN. here taken.