Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-08-02
MEASURE HAS Them
ALL UP IN The AIR
New Rate Bill Is a Difficult AT.
fair to Put into Oper-
alton.
COMPLICATIONS GALORE
What the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission Wants Is the Simplest
Observation-Disclosures of Rates
involves Much.
COMPLICATIONS GALORE


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"''S'lii7. 49, 'u'9 u "''''lsi'Ar
pAAsica! ~dillcuitsS that WAl confront
railroads IN changing rates and classi-
rcations. under TIE now rate law. are
.,tno Tho h.rr.,. A., ,.tlro.d ,r,nic
stN wy = '"-'e
oAieeTs.
They have been assuring the Inter-
state Commerce commission lately that
The new law viii nal,. if almost in,pos-
.i,ia ,a ,b.,ao ,..t.s an Studies of
<SNeio'' . = me efis'. -"" SSeih ~
JuStl9 INC "p!N4o'l "hIel i"iiio'tu 't'eii
are @NpiesSil's' tn'l dl'ef thlS acl TAXES
VNeet' tAH rates are once adjusted 10 ~
me hl'Iollal rae system VIII DE aiiii"st
llo.!cttd-
INC ii'!ir"du people n"Ne oeei ini'.s
ciitihoflhs LOT sonic positive iu!ii'SS
from me COMMISSION as 70 wiz. II -
SONG 10 require u'iuer 'his seN.'oii y,
me law. me COMMISSION mas "eciiiicu
I" pilld ltseii' pul mas atNlSeu va!ileIs
IL! general IN us tei'aNNe views -'
q result. " IS NOW colsioereu WY
douptiul IL 'he companies WIN oe aple
py inc 'llhe the law tahes etie'' w
comply with these pubilclty require
lneilts. An extension or llfne VIII likely
be asked in the near future. whether
il would be granted Is uncertain. Inc
express companies asked more tline lor
filing their rate schedules, n IL mas
not been grah.ea. ,u
A Striking illustration.
The wonderful! colnpilcatioils OF the
rate system are not easily described.
A single Illustration. multiplied by the
millions OF rates IN lofce' may Suggest
the d~illcul'les. an a..o'ies ioi o'o
RADIO foad whlcN shllS an i.n,iieise
freight of the Rocky FORD canteloupea
came to the COMMISSION TO ASK III MS
road must publish us rates ON 'hese
vegetables to All points, potn on lls own
line and on other roads with whlch IL
has joint traffic arrangements IT nap
pens that the entire ireisht IN ,h,s ar az
ticlc originates in a very limited dis
tirct. They are shipped to every nook
and corner of the nation. and joint
rates are made very extensively among
roads handling them. To require that
the rate 10 every destination to which
joint rates are made be puDllshed by
posting ut every station on the lines OF
The orjcinating company, would be. it
is claimed. am immense imposition. But
10 add to this the requirement that
every road with which these joint rates
.re made must give the same publicity
-, ali of It's stations would geometric-
.,il,. increase Inc burden. Then. it is
,5ni nern,it,.d 10 change n rate without
thirtv days' notice; and of the change
tbn same fun notice must be published
49, ~ tho nr;vinal rnIp would be ::
,a.aaI ,,.aceeih;lit. ia mako frnruent
h' 49, ~ =. - ,,nder s,,cn . require
Cav. .,a.,. chaDge announced
80 H., ,,h,iellad a, an STA
49, ~, iIi, Il annliea
M... CO R.lee s.,.ratelv
- - III ,a~,i,,l
III l,u'ilsmi"7 a., MA ,n'
..olase, ~ No stated senaratn-
H.. and the schedules must contain all
ln.s;Gc,,s,, ~ f,ai-ht Either of the
.,na, cl,ssinca1ions made in different
Snrtions of the country is IL big vol
un,e. the schedule of rates on amy inn
nortant road is likewise a big publica-
ton. They have usually been pub
iished separately. The roads want to
i,au. vhather ihev ,nust hereafter be
In the same volume. For convenience
This will probably not be insisted upon,
bmt they mus, be flied in the required
,rh,ic manner. together, at all sta
tinns
In making chanses in rates. it has
hoen suggested that convenience could
ns sac,Ire1 if some genius would i'm
ven, a method by which q sheet could
he removed from this printed schedule
nv fla Justification book, and u new one
;ns.rted as is done in some filing sys-
TENS. 1t would enable substitution of
q nav n,,blicat1on fol the old without
d.stroving the old schedule and also
without the necessity of keeping and
oyao,ininp an immense number of bull
letins. circulars and addenda. AT pres
en-, so numerous and inconSequential
90 those cirr,1lars relating to changes
T., rates that the most skilled traffic
,n,nager or rate clerk half the time
cnn,, I,n sure what are the latest rates
T., f,rca. the simmer is at the mercy
~ 40 o,n,nIicated system.
IN ,hi. oo,,nIicatiou the
ASalils, an eni" .h,o