Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-19
Representatives Refuse to Give
Railway Commission Aid in
Fixing Joint Rates
MEMBERS SITTING UP NIGHTS
Threaten to Adopt Joint Rates on Sew.
eral Commodities as an Experiment
Question to Be Taken Up Again At
Meeting Next Monday - Demand
for Joint Tariffs From All Places.
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road commission is not sailing thru the
sky on howery beds of ease In making
a schedule of joint rates. Far from
that. they are having to spend some
sleepess nights in the task. This task
could be made somewhat lighter II II
were possible to get hold of the facts
that are in the possession OF the rail-
roads, but this is not an easy task, ana
so far has proven all but fruitless.
While expressing every willingness to
give the facts the railroads have not
produced the goods. AS result the
commission has been cropping In the
dark, and one of, the commissioners re-
Gently expressed the fear that the COM
mission may have to arbitrarily put IN
some joint rates as an experiment 10
see how they work. Then from the
actual experience the board might be
able to get at the right kind or rates
needed. In the meantime there is
regular snowstorm of applications to
the board for joint rates. That there
is a demand for joint rates Is evidenced
by these applications. Manufacturers
and cities all over Iowa have deluged
the commission with requests for joint
rates. some ON comm odities and some
for Joint rates on everything between
certain points.
One of the members of the commits
sion stated recently that there are five
=. 1f ,yrft tty1Cp
in Joint rates. He had changed his
mind three times as to the method to
use since the investigation started
The, railroad men, shortly before the
investigation started, took the posi-
tion that the rate should be 80 per cent
of the two locals. When the commits
sion met they had changed their minds
and were opposed to blanket rate.
Since then their efforts have been di-
rected towards trying to get the COM
mission not to put in any joint rates
at all At least they have tried to con-
vince the commission that joint rates
were not needed, and talked of little
else to the commission. 1t came to the
ears of the commission that one rail-
road attorney had a lot of valuable ma
terial on the question of joint rates. He
was invited to speak, but began to
argue that joint rates were not need
ed. He was stopped by Commissioner
Eaton, who told him that the question
of joint rates had been settled by the
legislature that the commission was
going to put them in shortly, and that
he would confine his attention entirely
to the questions Of what kind of joint
hot
what virtually was a command on the
part of the commission to get him to
dig up the figures he had slowed away
lin his pocket, The next hearing by
the commission on the joint rates will
be next Monday, June "a.
A large number of Iowa and Ne.
braska cattle breeders attended the dis
persion sale conducted by H. A. Cole
at the fair grounds yesterday and the
entire herd of blooded Aberdeen-An-
gus cattle was sold at satisfactory
prices. Iowa breeders took the ma
jority of the, stock offered and this
herd will prove a valuable addition to
the Polled- Angus interests of the state.
NJ B. Walker of Clarinda, attended
the cole sale; ana 1ldu6 dQulllOllS LO IIlo
famous herds. on the big stock farm
Of W. G. Brown, vice president of the
New York, in Page county. Mr.. Brown
is former Iowan, having been raised
near Maquoketa and starting his rail-
road career as messenger boy in the
telegraph office Of the Illinois Central
at Waterloo He has been advanced
to one of the most important railroad
positions in the country and some years
ago purchased a large tract near Clar-
linda which he has converted into one
of the finest stock farms of the coun-
try.
H. A. Cole, the owner of the herd,
stated that he had sold sixty-seven
head at an average Of about 500 per
head. The highest price paid was for
COW which was secured by c. J.
Martin. of Churdan, Iowa, for $3.50.
Postmaster J. I. Myerly of Des Moines
was one of the purchasers Mr. Cole,
the proprietor Of the herd, which was
closed out by yesterdays sale and who
has been interested in large stock
farm near Belgrade, Neb., will hence
forth devote his time to the Cole Blast
Furnace company of Chicago, of which
ha is a principal stockholder.