Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-09
CLARK CONES HERE MONDAY
Interstate Commerce Commissioner will
Hear Switching Fee Case.
HEARING At The FEDERAL BUILDING
PFoceeding Comes VI on Protest Of
Grain Exchange Against Union
Pacific for Raising
the Charges.

The report that Commissioner Clark Of
the Interstate Commerce commission would
be IN Omaha Friday TO take further testi-
mony in the grain cases was erroneous.
Monday is the date set for the hearing Of
the protest of the Omaha Grain exchange
against the Union Pacific for raising the
switching charges on grain from Council
Bluffs TO Omaha and South Omaha from
g per car to / cent per hundred. which on
the larger cars is IS a car.
Mr.. Clark has notified the United States
marshal and Judge Munger he will be in
Omaha Monday.
After the announcement of the raise was
made by the Union Pacific the Great West
ern stepped into the breach and published
a tariff whereby It proposed to haul grain
free to elevators on its own lines and for
20 to elevators on other roads in Omaha
and South Omaha. II was thought the
Grain exchange would drop its case after
the Great Western published its rate.
SOUTH MAJEsTER, 1. T., Feb. SC. A.
Prouty, interstate commerce commissioner.
resumed his hearing here today. A number
of railroad officials were subpoenaed to
testify regarding the continued car short
age and slow movement Of freight in this
territory.
New Reciprocal Demurrage Bill.
Speaking of the new reciprocal demurrage
. bill drafted as substitute for the defec-
tive one in the legislature. which imposes
an obligation on the railroads to serve no
tice upon consignees Of arrival of all car
loads and less than carloads of freight by
telephone, and all such notices to be con-
frmed In writing by mail or otherwise, a
railroad of1cial says:
Railroads now serve such notices where
they are required. but this act requires a
double notice, regardless of necessity. This
would require a heavy unnecessary In
creased expenditure throughout the state.
For the Burlington the average number of
consignees per day at Lincoln is So, making
i,62l notices per day on less than carload
freight, making total of 2,z24 double no
tees per day at Omaha and Lincoln.
''rhe established practice for merchants
OF small stations, as well as the larger
points is to leave standing orders with
authorized draymen to accept from the
railroad company and deliver any freight
- which might arrive, and under this system
notices have been necessary on less thar
II per cent of less than carload freight al
Lincoln and Omaha. At the Lincoln freight
house the Burlington has seven individual
telephones and at Omaha nine, and figuring
three minutes per call, it would take forty
hours per day to serve these notices ovel
these 'phones."
Editors want Cheap Rates.
The Nebraska Editorial association has
applied to the railroads to have a far'
and one-third rate given for the meeting
which viii be held in Omaha February 20
While this rate will be granted. 1t is some,
thing new in Nebraska, for these a5itori
have heretofore Travelled on advert sins
transportation. but the railroads this veal
found themselves in the regrettable posi-
zion of being unable to give any such trans
pertations Railroad contracts with news
papers are now for cash and the railroads