Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-25
CHICAGO WANTS 1O[!
Livestock interests There Want
the Differential On Thru Bus
mess Removed.
Claim Chicago Is Being Discrim.
mated Against in Favor Of
Shippers.
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Asked to Act.-News
OF Des Moines.

change to the interstate commerce
commission to prevent the western
railroads from shipping Iowa cattle and
livestock to the seaboard without pay
ing tolls to Chicago; that is not the
diplomatic and legal form in which the
Live Stock Exchange clothes its petit
ton, but that is the meaning of it.
The twenty-six western railroads
have been carrying Iowa stock to the
seaboard thru Chicago, all of the time.
but they have charged lower rate be-
and Chicago, on this class of thru ship
ment than they have on live stock
which has been consigned to Chicago
and stopped there. This differential in
favor of the thru business has had a
deleterious effect on the live stock bus
mess in the Chicago yards, and the ex-
change wants the interstate commerce
commission to stop it.
The dispatches say:
Summarized, the charges are that the
live stock to Chicago which are unreal
sonable and unjust compared with the
rates published on live stock products.
These rates, it is claimed are in VIOLA
ton Of the interstate commerce act,
which prohibits rate discrimination. 1t
is further charged that the rates COM
planned of operate 10 the disadvantage
and prejudice of the live stock raisers
in the states named when transports
ing from Kansas City, South st. Joseph,
South Omaha, Sioux Sity, South st.
Paul and points east to Chicago.
Lastly, it is charged that the rates
now in force initiate against the Chi
cago Live Stock Exchange and against
Chicago as market TOR live stock.
The principle contended for by the
,'hi ago LIZ: s. 'ck TX, hat.ge. cord
ing to traffic officials, would become
impossible of carrying out if applied to
the ent.le n.ntrv 1t is claimed ~ the
change that live stock coming to Chi
cago should bear the same rate as the
Chicago from Missouri river points is
live stock destined for the seaboard.
For example the ate IN live St. k to
Chicago from Missouri ricver points is
rate taken by Chicago roads on live
stock destined from Missouri river
points to the seaboard is 1872 cents. If
the rates We're made the same it would
mean that all thru rates, would have
to be combinations of local rates, and
under such a regime the seaboard mar
kets would be prohibited to all the
country west of the Missouri river.
Hon. w. w. Morrow, of Alton, is
prominently mentioned for the Eighth
district membership on the ST. Louis
exposition commission. He is vice
president of the state department of ag
riculture, and according to all prece-
dent, will DE the president next year
when the ST. Louis exposition is on,
provided it is not postponed. This will
give him great advantage in the mat
ter Of adequately representing one of
the biggest Iowa interests-agriculture
Besides tn t, his prominence in the
state would suggest that his appoint
ment would be especially fitting. If he
cared to be an active candidate there
an endorsement from the undivided
Eighth.
Iowa people interested in the EXPOSE
ton do not believe yet that it will be
postponed until 1904. Members of the
legislature thought it would. 1t was
stated in the legislative halls, indeed,
that the legislature of 1904 could finish |
making large appropriation for the
building, and Iowa exhibit at the ST. |
Louis fair, if it was postponed. This
was given as somewhat of an excuse
for not giving to exceed s125,OOO this |
year.
Supervisor II. j. wulff, of Scott
said at the railway freight rate
hearing here that Scott county is get
ting her roads into fine condition by
Tie use of crushed rock. About eighty
miles have been built leading into Dav-
EXPORT. The roads are made double and |
single track, according to the topo-
graphy of the road surface. The rock
Il kept within the roadway with bank |
Of earth on each side, the roades being I
graded up in pike like the dirt roads I
in the dry part of the year The i'm
proved roads are worth actual cash /
money to the farmers in the price of |
grain thru being able to reach market /
rapidly. Mr.. Wulff is confident that
when the railroads reduce the rates on
road-making material 90 per cent, as
was asked and granted by the commits
sion, 1t will result in the immediate
building of hundreds of miles of good
-oads. 1.-THE railroads are as much in
crested in good roads as any one" said
Mr.. Bechtel. of the Burlington road, to
Mr.. Wulff, but the railroads doubt IL
he reduction in rates would result In
the matchmaking bust
TESS" Mr.. g. p. Lyman, of the North
western, said that the roads would not
object to the cheap rate for hauling
he matchmaking material as suggested
n this state If it did not form a prece-
lent for the reduction of similar rates
II other states for purely commercial
'eaSOns.
The Sergeant's Bluff Brick Company
,as filed articles of Incorporation with
he secretary of state. Its capital is
he incorporators.
Articles have been filed with the sec
'etary by the Boone Carnival Com
iany, with $500 capital, G.. L. Seebeger
md others being the incorporators.
The Center Point Ranch Company
led articles. also. Thursday. Its capl-
al is $4,000 L. Gilchrist and others