The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-08

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said M. A. Low. with some show Of
| anuC vance.
Grain can be billed to Armourdale
and that is our name for the Kansas
/ City,, Kan, depot
Il don't need to be informed by my
| good friend Low what I shall present
to this board" replied Mr.. Helm. TT
is generally understood by Kansas ship
pers that they cannot ship wheat to
Kansas City, Kan. Another matter
ment of the differentials for the bene-
fit OF southern Kansas millers."
DO you represent the millers?" ask
ed Mr.. Prouty.
Il do, to a certain extent said Mr..
Helm.
Texas Side of the Case.
S. H. Cowan of Fort Worth then
stated to the commission that Fort
Worth and Dallas are asking for a re-
ductiOn in rates from Kansas points to
Fort Worth and Dallas. They consider
these rates exceptionally high. 1--WE
should have as low a basis as Kansas
CITY," he said, because we come in
competition with Kansas City both in
buying and selling"
r. e. Huff, representing GAINESVILLE,
then said: I'VE are here to deny the
right of Dallas and Fort Worth to low
er rates than Red river points. Lower
rates there would place Red river
points at a disadvantage. This COM
mission should place no gateways at
disadvantage. We ask that if a read
justment of rates be ordered, it be
we join our Kansas friends, and that
is that the differentia1 be made equal
to all Kansas points,
A. A. Hurd, for the Santa Fe, said:
"As far as we are concerned we think
that the rates as they exist are as low
as they should be. We will make the
IS per cent reduction ordered by the
legislature, and apply the same pro-
Or-fI 1Tea fn v--a6r ~ a
S. R. Koontz, general freight agent
of the Santa Fee, criticised the freight
rate tables offered by S. H. Cowan.
He said they were incorrect in many
particulars. Mr.. Cowan came back
with the statement that the tables
criticised by Mr.. .Koontz were prepared
by the rate clerks of the interstate
commerce commission, and he took
them simply as prepared.
NJ. A. Low saidS"I don't know as
understand just what the complainants
expect. I didn't understand that the
general question of export and do
mestic rates was tOebe opened up. If
it is. we want time to prepare for it. 1
don't see any good reason why the
present rates should be changed. Rates
have generally decreased since the
commission had itsAast hearing on this
subject, and cost of opera ton has gen
orally Increased. The railroads should
be allowed to test the new conditions
and see what the effect will be, before
any further changes are made
Commissioner Prouty asked Mr..
Low how he justified a rate of. 121s
cents from Wichita to Kansas City,
while the rate for a point in Oklahoma
not much further was twice as much.
Mr.. Low did not give direct answer
to the question, and the Oklahoma
shippers smiled. e.,-
Mr.. Helm then introduced in evil
dence number of reports of Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn concerning the
agricultural products of Kansas. He
Santa F'e railway, and asked Mr.. Low
if he would furnish one of the annual
reports of the Rock Island
"I haven't any, replied Mr.. Low.
''It might save putting one of the
officials on the stand to produce the
report" said Mr.. Helm.
do as you please about that" re-
torted Low.
Commissioner Prouty said. when Mr..
Helm offered one of the Coburn reports
1.-THE commission has decided not to re-
ceive reports in full, except when alb
solutely necesSary,on account of the fact
that they cucumber the records. You
may cite the pages to which you refer
and these will be Incorporated in the
records -
By this time it was noon, and Mr.
Helm evidently expected the commits
sion would adjourn But Commission
er Prouty announced that the session
would continue till 1890 Mr.. Helm
then made arrangements to have Mr..
CoWan's witness called Mr..
Pawkett took the stand. The commits
sion adjourned while Mr.. Pawkett was
explaining some of the rate schedules
that affect FIT Worth.