Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-31
RULE MENACE TO MERCHANTS
Decision Of Commission on Round Trip
Rates Nay Kill Meetings
BLOW TO RETAILERS OF NEBRASKA
Unless BuiinE f. Changed They Can
No Longer Come 90 Omaha on
One-Fifth Fare 10
Buy Goods.


A recent ruling Of the Interstate Com
merce commission. by placing restrictions
on the issuance Of reduced rate round trip
tickets on the certificate plan, threatens
the destruction OF the custom OF holding
annual merchants meetings at jobblng cen-
tiers. II one part Of the ruling il not
changed-and as yet 1t amounts merely to
n suggestion OF what the commission con.
!, mplates doing-retar merchants Of Ne
lraslSa and the west will no longer enjoy
the privilege Of coming to Omaha each fail
on one and one-hfth fare to buy their
goods.
This is the text Of the ruling:
Round trip tickets on the certificate plan
may be issued at reduced rates, and their
use be confined to the delegates to par
ticuar convention or to the members OF
particular association or society, upon the
| tickets shall be presented for validation
| for return trip before the reduced rate for
return trip will be granted to any Tariffs
/ ance and use Of round trip tickets on tho
certificate plan must be regularly filed and
posted and the reputation must not Pe sueh
provision OF the law.
The commission suggests that the rule
should provide that not less than 100 tickets
shall be presented for valuation for re-
turn tIiD before reduced rates Will be
Round trip tickets on She certificate plan
may also be Issued to government enl-
ployes going home to vote and returning
| to their employment.
RRort 90 Save Excursions.
The Omaha Jobbers and Manufacturers
association will hold a meeting wednesday
| to talk over the matter and adopt a plan
OF action, for the members declare the
commission will kill buyers excursions to
all markets IL II finally adopts the provi-
i sion that 100 tickets must be presented for
valuation for the return trip before rate
tickets are granted. Such a ruling might
be Just, as far as II concerns big conven-
lions, they say, but as far as It applies 10
merchants meetings it is not, and FOR
the merchants other provisions should be
made The jobbers maintain that at nc
market In the country can the requirement
be met. They say IL is invariably the
case that many merchants who arrive
early want to go home before the number
in the city has reached 100.
The association has letters from CONNER
cial bodies along the Missouri and Missis.
sippi rivers protesting the action Of the
commission IL is probable the local or
ganization will appoint committee TO con
fer with jobbers' associations OF other citie!
with view to taking some united actor
before the commission.
Movement to Get II.
At a meeting Of the joint committee Of
, the Omaha Commercial club and the Rea
Estate exchange on the matter Of extern
sion OF stopover privileges at Omaha OF
, railroad tickets subcommittee consisting
of Daniel Fuller, ]. A. Abbott and J. M
Guild was appointed This Committee is L
confer at once with the local officials o
I the railroads and II necessary Mr. GULL
is to go to Chicago to take up the matte
with the higher authorities.
The Commercial club executive enter
tanned j. A. Brown at lunch Tuesday. h
being present at the request of the com
mlttee to tell about the Brown Truck com
pany, which does a manufacturing bust
ness at Thirteenth and Jones streets MI
Brown said his truck is used In many O
the local wholesale houses. he has NOR
: orders than he can fill and he needs none,
for wider operation. Several of the mem
+, bers had investigated Mr.. Browns plan
y and he was given the assurance there woul
. be no trouble in getting the needed money
An Invitation was received to send dele
gates to the annual meeting at Washing
r ton December and OF the Rivers ant
Harbors congress-