Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-11
RAP At THE ROCK ISLAND
Drain Exchange and Commercial Club Ap-
peal for es-0psration Of Msmhsra
UNION TO RESIST lNIMlcM RATES
Railroad Continues In It's Fight on
Omaha and It's Discrimina-
tion, an Favor OF
Kansas City.

II is evident the commercial interests OF
Omaha do not intend to allow the position
OF Kansas city with regard 70 the grain
territory of Nebraska to pass unchal-
lenged. Members of the Omaha Grain ex-
change and the Commercial club have re-
ceived circular signed by the secretaries
OF these organizations, reminding them OF
the inimical attitude OF the Rock Island
toward Omaha and calling attention par
ucularly to recent advance in rates which
extend the Nebraska territory affected by
the equalization" plan so adverse to
omahas interests.
The circular reads:
Commercial Club of Omaha-Omaha Grain
Exchange-Omaha, Jan. 8, 19O7.-Confiden-
tai to Our Members: On January l, 1907,
the rates on grain from Omaha and Kan
sas City to Memphis, Tenn, were advanced
! cent per hundredweight. This advance
e e'tor1 very materially the Nebraska ter
ton plan OF the Rock Island-Frisco sys-
tenn. Had there been any doubt in the
pose of the Rock Island-Frisco system in
putting the plan In effect that doubt would
De dlspelled by an official statement OF the
Board OF Trade "a copy of which Is In our
possession), In which he commends the
plan and congratulates his members over
the additional territory opened up by its
operation to Kansas City merchants.
Every effort is being made by our trans
further extension of this plan by the Rock
standardized system, but TO compel that
speak your continued cooperation to this
end and we thank you heartily for your
loyalty and for the assistance you have
already given u.s. Respectfully c,,,,D
Commissioner Commercial c Club ii; Of Omaha.
r. ]. MVANN.
Secretary Omaha Grain Exchange,
Kansas City Makes Boast.
have been an open boast of Kansas City
regarding its advantages over Omaha in
southern Nebraska, made possible by the
Kansas City-Memphis equalization" plan
of the Frisco and Rock Island. H. q.
Wilson, manager OF the transportation de-
partment Of the Kansas City Board OF
Trade, in an article January l in the Daily
Drovers Telegram of Kansas City, out
lined the effect of the plan on Kansas City
grain interests and congratulated his mem
bers on having obtained that valuable con-
cesslon from the railroads. He added
The arrangement mentioned above has
not yet been extended to cover all of the
producing territory TO which this market
is entitled, but the transportation depart
mept is still at work and hopes to ulti-
mately accomplish favorable results.
meeting OF the transportation depart
ment of the Omaha Grain exchange was
iSiN w Soisiuei thlS uSciaIdtion VI poncy,
and 1t was decided to put the facts of the
discrimination in the public mind afresh
and to make further efforts to compel the
Rock Island Frisco system to withdraw
the plan.
A member OF the Grain exchange quotes
a high traffic Official of big railroad as
saying recently on a visit to Omaha:
The Kansas City grain market has been
the beneficiary OF the rankest railroad dis
elimination ever known and Its growth Is
based upon that discrimination. Now that
II Is no longer possible to secretly favor
that market. you will find big change In
its degree of Importance.