The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-07
RECEIVES
SHIPPERS P Fl Al APPEAL
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. HEAR
ING BEGINS IN ST. PAUL.

Village Of Goodhue First Of Series Of
Petitioners for Redress Against Rate
Discriminations-W Wants Same Rate
to Chicago on Grain as Red Wing
Gets. SIT
Judge G. A. Prouty of the interstate
commerce commission is sitting in ST..
Paul, hearing four complaints filed by
Minnesota shippers. The state railroad
cases on behalf of the compliments,
and Attorney General Young appeared
today as counsel.
The first case heard is that of the
village of Goodhue against the Great
Western. Goodhue has a, rate Of Is
cents hundred on wheat to Chicago.
Red Wing, which is farther by the
Great Western than Goodhue is, en-
joys l2Ea-cent rate, and has milling
n-translt rate of 10 cents from Min
neapolis to Chicago. This rate, Good
vantage in buying grain. 80 -.
+ The Pine Island Farmers Elevator
company makes "a similar, complaint.
The Hastings Mailing company has two
complaints in. One charges that Has.
tings pays higher rate to Chicago
than Minneapolis does on cattle, malt
wheat and coarse grains. The other is
on coal rates, and is the same com
plant made some time ago before the
state commissioners. 1t says that Has.
tlngs pays. higher rate on coal from
eray goes thru on H iae 1ns '0s w. seF
Johns and W.. J.. ,Wright, merchants of
Hastings, complain Of paying higher
rates on shipments from eastern points
than Minneapolis enjoys. These cases
are all set for 10 am. tomorrow. The
Hastings cases will be handled by Grant
Van SAINT and James Monahan of ST.
Paul. Judge Mills and w. E. Young
OF the railroad commission appeared al
the hearing today ...
Judge Prouty stated the Goodhue case
in opening. He said that Minneapolis
enjoyed proportional rate Of ~ cents
on grain to Chicago and straight loca
rate. Of l2h. This is extended to inter
! mediate points on the river, including
Red Wing: The Milwaukee makes
rate of Is cents from points on the
Iowa & Minnesota division, and thu
Great Western makes the same from al
it's points but Red Wing where it meet.
the Milwaukee, and Cannon Falls, where
1t was reduced to 141a by the commits
sion s order in that case.
Buys Chiefly In Minneapolis.
E. R. GGerlach Of the Grange Milling
company, Red Wing, was the first wit
ness called by the compliments. HI
testified that they bought million
bushels Of wheat a year, on an aver
! age, in the Minneapolis market, anC
ship it on a milling in transit rate of IL
cents, thru to Chicago. Some is sole
LOCALLY but wheat bought locally il
milled and shipped out on the transit
rate: Local wheat purchases amount
to + or 8 per cent Of their total con
about 1,loo,OOO3 bushels a year. Thi!
transit rate. Mr.. Gerlach admitted, en-
abled them to pay a higher price fol
wheat than if they paid the full loca
rate to- Chicago. Thej margin is against
Goodhue is about 5 cents a hundred
In response to a. question he also ad
mitted that by replacing wheat brought
from Minneapolis with wheat bought
IN Red Wing, ON the transit rate, he
was getting the ohaul on such grain
Examined by g. A: Severance fol
| the. Great Western, Mr.. Gerlach sale
! their prices were 9fxed by the Mime
apolis market rather than by Chicago
| They get grain hauled from Belvidere
township, a greatedeal Of it. The hau
from there is fourteen or fifteen miles
and only. six to ten miles from Good
! hue. - T.. ~ 80 -... ;
! Mr.. Gerlach said they bought about
as much wheat, tonnage locally as they
sold locally in flour and byproducts
50 their wheat bought from Minneapolis
all goes thru on the milling in-transit
rate The milling demand at Red Wing
makes lit a good market for grain ii
that vicinity.
wheat. as Minneapolis does9'' asked
Commissioner Prouty.
! "No; generally about or 4 cents
| "Why couldn It you pay as much
for grain as Minneapolis, when yol
have this milling-in transit rates''
81 suppose we could if we were 81
disposed" replied the witness.
r.. Red Wing 5 Cents Higher.
John McHugh, president of the Good
hue village council, and a retail lum
Der dealer, testified that the village ha
40 people, and a. 100-barrel fourmill
They are fifteen miles from Red Wing
lance Of FIVE miles toward Red Wing
The Red Wing market, however, is
cents higher They hauled wheat from
his farm sixteen miles to Red Wing
instead Of one and three-quarters mile
to Goodhue. With equal prices, three
fourths Of the wheat from the town O.
:|'Belvidere should. 90 to Goodhue TIL,
Goodhue market on barley is 3 cent
lower than Red Wing.
4 I. w. Lally of Goodhue testified
along the same line. -.
! Commissioner Prouty asked Judg
Mills to make a statement, based OF
Minnesota s grain rates, showing wha
the rate from Goodhue to Chicago
would be at the same basis. - :
George S. LOTUS Of the LOTUS Hub
| bard Elevator company. St. Paul, vii
testify for the compliments. He ba
bills to show that they have shippe
grain bought from farmers near 81
Paul to Chicago for 715 cents, Showing
that the rate is open. and not merely
proportional rate. The 12h-cent rat
from Minneapolis, he claims, is purely
paper rate. The Milwaukee's answe
/ to the Hastings complaint saws that tn
4 71a-cent rate does not apply to ship
ments originating in the twin Cities