The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-03
Iof Interstate Commerce
biSsion on Car Short
be Now Complete.
/ |CONGESTI0N OF
|FRAFFIC POINTED OUT
4 Remedies Are Suggest
4 Possibly Furnishing
ueasure of Relief.

LrNGTON, Jan. 2.-The causes,
the cure. for the car shortage
/ |Sorthwest and the consequent
.joe in North Dakota, have been
"A by the members of the In
Z [comnerce commission partici-
4 The recent hearings at Chi
4 Minneapolis. Franklin X.
n served as chairman OF the
dion committee, today fled his
I'M the full commission, and
a President Roosevelt, who or
inquiry. He finds:
8 fair Inference from all the
that the real cause of the
P,ity in North Daota was such
jsnce of westbound traffic at
Of the lakes that cars were
hble, in the congested state of
rinal, for the carrying of coal
~ Dakota-a comparatively v
Il for a low class commodity. -
litter of transmission to the
Mr.. Lane saws the report
. ioIlowed in due course by the
Recommendations of the COM
8 whole as TO whatever legis-
any, may he deemed advisa-
ING to the report that the coal
4 MAS due to the presence of a
Combination between dealers
mich fixed prices IN the North
2 refused to sell 10 outsiders
|rsEulers.' the report says:
t conspiracy Explained.
tcmmission has gained indis
MOOT of an agreement between
|bn to maintain prices and TO
| III who did not so agree, but
no evidence at all lustifying
&sDtion that this combination
-sable with the coal shortage
4. nor that the railroads were
such a way to such n con-
port of the commissioner first
10 the coal famine In North
|and presents the conditions OF
found to have existed in that
|7he remedies which the COM
= purposes TO work out include
"a plan for a car clearing house
| |pl and reciprocal car demur-
I'd loss to & large percentage
|pplc of the Northwest is shown
i been caused by the failure of
[lpzds 10 prepare for a large
- Of Grain. Mr.. Lane shows
railrosds tapping the great
M of the Northwest seem TO
10 overwhelmed by this year S
GOugh in fact the crop scarcely
that Of 1905, nor did it equal
al least one other preceding
car Pool Is Formed.
asidering the evidence taken,
Eoner Lane saws that a plan for
20 ear clearing house or a car
ESeen connecting lines is re-
nth much favor. The details
plan have not been worked
af appropriation between car
Reated at some length, and the
Of 9 rule is suggested fixing a
IL Of 90 cents a day during those
IN the year when traffic is light
!taslng this possibly four-fold
'he latter half Of the year, when
most needed. The most gen
hvocated remedy for the fail
zrflers To furnish cars when de-
: known as reciprocal car de-
plrase means. in word. that
'nall be penalized on failure to
',rs demanded. and it arises out
'Wersal railroad practice of i'm
PER diem penalty when n car
~ consignee for unloading
certain fixed number of DAYS.
Inmlsloner says this plan alone
~ overcome the transportation
"a II the measure merely pro-
q punishment of the railroad for
I'ng OF cars or non-m oVcment
ar Lane in his report sums
'1'Fing: - - - y .
rfoolem Is Complicated.
problem is much deeper and
9aoer than a mere lack of ears
INES IL is one in which is
svery- factor in roilroading-
s,aSclion, operation, maintenance
sSe.ng OF the railroad The ina
inc shipper to secure n car
vTiy symptom Of deep
u organic trouble. The real
I'M si shortage may lie in the too
e .u character Of the manage
or ane road, or in the unfitness
i.sp.ency Of its operating of
~. may follow from an incom-
Xii IN The part Of the directors
4 antp imposed by law on
IA ;;nrier: 1t may arise out of
ptn -. railroad operation which
ao.L consideration to spccula.
N /, operations. IT may come
N ,iLaoiiity ,Lao to secure funds so 1t
\ \ faIat f,nat 1t can discharge its duty.
.,iiyv IN a time of exceptional
,am,d rom an increase in traffic
4 'IIu not entirely have been
tlsd E" may arise from an in
\ n II may arise from an in
hty secure labor and materials
plif0,aG the proper charging of
|I''aa N al facilities
tHvss enumeration of causes is not
M. IL could not well be COM
ind~..s.. giving consideration TO
al ss.rial and economic factors
MI ,'n msl glance would appear re-
\ sun.srelated. Clearly, the prob
Fea s,uu;s1plortation is so closely in
n sv".h "i.h the fabric Of our com
aisrdse,uem and so closely related
n az pendent are the various ac.
|kt livha,rr bar Industrial life. that one
tps CT uly say what are the multi
h eutev evvnsidcrations which neces-
INTO SO simple question