The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-14

~. St'app: .,a tue senator PARDON
l M = Ms s6raasn IN Certainly though
,aPe not sas IKE .Rda aisdsrfSRP s
g single word Al II the House biil that
fere with that condition beyond what
they the might as have In, interfered With It 9n.
ss;s r. 8 IL {ssss !:
mne what ua a snS 10
rates or { Will not have that power.
Il r. it has that power, it has got to base
iantic .difrerentiai theory that it has
promulgated, it will be bound to fol-
you would have as many Inherent kinds
W Ways in the unite el States .aefe are rail-
I know of no system, will say to
the Senator from Minnesota, whereby
destroying all the relations of one road
to ANOTHER and bringing about chaotic
takes into consideration the question
what would be reasonable on other
roads and what other roads can haul
Mr.. ciapp: II the Senator will pardon
me again, he must concede that before
Shc NOuliulSStOu uIueE lEe new law can
ascertain ~ reasonable rate the COM
mission must first be justified in con
demning the existing rate. The Senator
cisions, of the Supreme Court in regard
to the long and short haul clause of the
existing law. I undertake, to say, that
there Is not Il line, or word, or syllable
in this bill which enlarges the power
OF the Commission as to the long and
| short haul clause as found in the eX-
| listing interstate-commerce law If the
| Commission would not find those rates
unreasonable under the existing law
those rates substitute an alleged rca-
son i s, rate under the proposed law.
Mr.. M deSn bell Mr. President, let me
will not give exact figures, hut 1 will
give enough to show the result. | will
has s seioad o wheat e Ms W tro
my city to the Senator's city of Min
neapolis, where we market it. is car
| that same car is loaded at the same
place and carried back to the same city
where It started for 800 per car.
| This is done under a system which
has not been adopted by the railways
that it is for the best interest Of our
the things we ship out rather than the
things we ship in. that while we ship
out 5000 bushels of wheat, for instance.
cents a bushel more than we would
upon an equalization of those rates. TO
be sure. when we ship something in it
more for a .pitchfork, but while selling
5000 bushels s Of wheat we do not buy
really benefited by this Discrimination.
Now suppose the Interstate Com
msrce Commission is called upon to de-
to my town at 800 car is excessively
high what evidence will they receive?
One Of the things that would neces-
company hauled the same car the other
direction for only $50 and II they can
haul It the osSe4 fes 5S o 5
on the ground that it is excessive, the
which is the real rate that benefits us,
and the only one that amounts to any
thing to us, and will make it cost all
ward.
:, Mr. Mr.. C Ha1,G vi will ask the Senator
could find successfully that the 500
rate is an unreasonable rate? Is there
vent the Commission from NV attacking King
Mr.. Mecumber The Commission will
sonable: and that they hold that inst cad
the s1 frs rate they could well afford
the otter sss Thsy e viii pr % 81 win
Mr.; Clapp That is violation Of the
Mr.. Mccumber: Just moment Mr..
fhe Thsy probably will a.tasn
eastward maui already may be low.
and the railway can not afford to carry
both WAYS avs at less am99 IN In other
that car both wavs. want to let
then ha 3yt the - opportunity s to dieren
hands OF the Commission to say that
they shall not have that power.
Nov, Now: Mr. P Pres dent word before
les 6 6a a0q this nag ns1isr
sion can properly consider everyone of
the a freights that it will be called upon
ought not to force it upon them, or
even expect them to do it or allow
them to do it.
railroad rate. making. There are. now
fey bas hcb nrneip nnt relative
every person, are at least understood
by those who have. given the subject
| We know. in a general way how these
rates are arrived at. The official
on any great line of railway receives e
| daily. reports from every station along
the linz fhs as to conditions it of crops bus
etatea ete Not &c only 0 ths 1 pat he easn
celNeS information 0lfectlV or 1n0trocrlv
system. Those lines lie must utilize
and those tho which are in competition
ket of the entire nation and the entire
| world, He must constantly have before
him the schedules of charges for all
| traffic: because he must fix his rates in
| accordance with it. He must under
| stand exactly what the variation of a
have upon the rates and charges and
own, SO that, in fact. every agent. every
ton along every line of railway does
which shall be the e BASIC of fixine rafas
from day to day. I therefore do not
exagseratseo when SdS say that it takes an
States. Now. we propose to place this
ave men. Who. though they ,as b nan Giants Is
IN intellect, could not consider the one
hundredth part of per cent OF the
sidered in the matter Of FRAT" rate making ma ling
I Judge from the remarks Of the Sen
ator r from Massachnsetts (Mr. Lodge,
as much he will make them twice as
Intellectual 1T | will hardly agree with
ther Pe ahn
could not consider properly one-quarter
OI inc rates tnaL would naturally come
before them, because 1 believe that as
soon as that rate-making power is
given it will be followed by applica-
cIal city to secure Tower rates or pref
erential rates to it's own particular To-
its own prosperity: and If they are not not
successful in that way thew will get
IN as defendants for the purpose Of pre-
the preferentials, and the Commission
will be naturally overwhelmed with q
great amount of work.
VI am informed that there are more
than 100 000 9cho6,lles nf rafaS Rlod