The Cairo bulletin., 1905-09-25
GRAIN MEN HOME
FROM A MEETING
OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at Washington
WANT RATES CHANGED
SHIPPERS AND RAILROADS URGED
TO GET TOGETHER AND SET
TIE THE MATTER OUT
OF THE COURTS.

Harry f. Halliday ami A. E. Rust
OF the Halliday Milling company re-
turned yesterday morning from Wash
ington where they went TO testify be-
| fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in an effort to secure A nat
rate for shipments south Of the river
! n place of the shrinkage rate now in
eject
j. Bruce Magee or the Redman
Magee Elevator company Of this city
was also present at the meeting bur
at the conclusion OF his testimony left \
for New York to transact business
/ lie will return home in a short while
Friday Mr. Magee closed the testi-
mony for the Cairo shippers The testi-
nony of the Cairo shippers went to
show that the Louisville grain mer-
chant ought not 10 he allowed to buy /
corn in Illinois or west Of the Mississ- |
lippi river, because this corn or grain /
was naturally tributary 10 The mar
kets OF the South through Evansville, |
Cairo and Memphis.
special from Washington regard |
tho meeting says.
The feature Of he closing day Of
the Louisville grain rate cases before
she Interstate Comerce Commission
was the argument Of Alexander p
Humphrey. Of Louisville, the general
counsel for the Southern railway.
When the argument had been com
pleted today Commissioner Clements
Knapp said he heartily eonourred,
made a suggestion. in which Chairman
that if possible. the railroad people
jand shippers should get Together and
Eadjust their present differences in adj
vance OF a decision by the Interstate
! Commerce Commission In the mean.
time briefs can be fled up to October
z0. Before this there will probably be
A railroad meeting, and il is not be-
yond the range Of possibilities that the
! lease can be settled out Of court,
= though juct at present the opposing
u Ecounsel do not see how this can be
brought about. Some Importance was
attached today to the statement OF
n the Cairo shippers that they did not
u care to avil themselves Of the privil-
eye of fling a brief with the commits
sion,
II Mr.. Farrell Cites Cases.
Mr. r. r. Farrell, representing the
commission, began the argument to-
tiay. He con"~>ded that under the I'M
I. rerstate commerce law 1t II unlawful
81 I'd have different rates on the same
= character 81 traffic between the same
a points Hence. it was unlawful for
the roads from Louisville to charge
- one rate when grain came from In
i, diana and another rate when it came
from Illinois or west CT the AIississ
RI. Iippi; that a difference of rate cannot
4. be made to depend ON a difference Ii
in origin.
All He cited various cases before thr
.ly commission and the courts to prove
ia. this.
af Mr. Wardeld Speaks.
he Mt B. u. Wariield. for the Louisville
to and Nashville railroad, analyze,l thu
complaint and pointed out that tn,
us proof had failed 10 establish th,
ie- charges. He said the through rat
all from East ST. Louis to Atlanta wa
nm twenty-three cents per hundred pound
and that the rate TO Cairo and Evans
ais vile from East st. Louis was one CEN
nd and from there to Atlanta twenty
two cents The rate. he said, fror
ult East st. Louis to Louisville on ihi
nd grain was nineteen cents an exaC
IA a.Fyl f1uF o0 az I mi
os- willie there was a shrinkage Of tn
twenty-five cent local rate 10 Atlant
~. BY three cents. the Caiyo dealer had
FOR similar arrangement by which
az. points in Carolina there was shrinl
oW age in his favor mp to three cent
ION The Cairo dealer, he said, had sim
"ll lar shrinkaee arrangement to New o
leans and Mobile by which. by produ
ing an expense bill, The dealer obtai
RAJ ed the benefit of shrinkage of thr,
II cents over the local rate. He said Il
Louisville dealer was In the field b
fore the Evansville dealer and u
eul- Cairo dealer was now asking the COZ
"a the market He cited statisti
tending 10 show that under the pre-
,au emf arrangement only due nroporti'
nnli Of grain passed through I.ouisvil
i TIC believed all danger OF duplicate
oas Of expense bills had been done aw
M with.
VA. Mr.. Humphreys Argument.
y ri Mr. Humphrey, for the Southern, ;
, mn gued that railroad in fixing its IA
erad had tho right 10 take into consider
most ticn The origin OF the grain-that n
was was done in mill ng In transit, sa
live. ing IN transit, compressed cotton
transit. In all these cases. MIR. EIu
Nn phrcy said no effect was maiIe to Il
out the identity Of the wheat, ID
Or cotton Ia l.oui#villc. ho said
have ,ron. tho,o n.as nna aim VIII III ~
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