Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-18
RATES AND RATE MAKING.
Hearing by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.

Rates and rate-making occupied the at
tention OF the interstate commerce commits
sion all day today. It was the largest hear
ing that has been held for months. All of
the commission except Senator Cockrell
were on the bench. and the hearing room
was crowded with presidents. vice presi-
dents and solicitors Of all the more import
ant railroads Of the country. The hearing
room was filled to overlooking. and there
was an attempt made to secure a larger hall
in some Of the hotels, but 1t was aban-
doned.
The general discussion was on the inter-
probation Of the rate law with regard to
the making Of through tariffs and Joint
rates. One OF the chief points of conten-
ton was the objection of some OF the roads
to being compelled to participate In
using part or all Of their line to carry the
traffic. The discussion was largely tech
meal and OF little interest to the general
public. but the point aimed at by the OBJ
jecting roads was to keep the routing Of
freight in their own hands SO as II neces-
sary, to favor one connecting line above
another and force a shipper or an original
ing road to use the route they selected
rather than that preferred by the oon-
signor.
Among those present at the hearing were:
L. J.. Spence. general freight agent Southern
Pacific Company. Atlantic Steamship lines.
Morgan line. $40 Broadway. New York: L.
H. Nutting. general passenger agent South
ern Pacific Company. ETC.. $40 Broadway.
eral freight agent Morgan's Louisiana and
Texas Railroad and Steamship Company.
Louisiana Western Railroad Company, New
Orleans. La; n. B. Chamberlain. vice presi-
A. B: Duke. treasurer Durham and South
ern Railway Company. Durham, N. c.;
Elmer H. Wood. general freight agent
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Omaha.
Nnh To p~1 t<~I,A
New York, Chicago and st. Louis Railroad,
Cleveland Ohio; C. 8. Hoskins. freight traf-
fic manager Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company, Baltimore. Md; Della
ware and Hudson Company, Paul Wads-
worth. freight traffic manager, Albany, N.
z; B. B. Mitchell, freight traffic manager
N. Y. Central and Hudson River railroad,
West River railroad. Boston and Albany
railroad, New York; w. G. Gardiner, chief
clerk and passenger traffic manager South
ern racine Company. San Francisco. CAL;
L. H. kentfield. assistant general freight
agent New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad. New Haven, Conn; E. G. Buck
land, vice president New York. New Haven
and Hartford railroad. New Haven. Conn;
eral solicitor Erie Railroad Company: II. c.
Smith. freight tariff agent Baltimore and
OHIO railroad; B. D: Caldwell. vice pres-
dent 1tod Delaware; Lackawanna and Western
agent seaboard Air Line railway:
w. A. Winburn. second vice president, c,
OF Georgia Railway Company. Savannah,
Ca; E. r. Richardson. general freight
agent. Ocean Steamship Company; c. s.
Wight. manager freight traffic Baltimore
and Ohio railroad: D. NJ. Goodwin, general
freight agent. L. and N. railroad; T. s.
Davant. freight traffic manager, Norfolk
and Western railway: o. Howard Roger,
manager. Great Southern Dispatch, Roam
oke, Va: Key Compton, general freight
agent. Baltimore Steam Packet Company,
Baltimore. Md: s. P. Shane. freight traffic
manager. Erie Railroad Company. New
York; A. P. Burgwin, assistant general
counsel. Penn. lines; y. T. McCabe, fourth
vice president. Penna. Co.: James p Orr,
general freight agent. Penna Co.; T. N.
Jarvis. second vice president. Lehigh Val
ley, r. R.; A. s. Crane, foreign freight
agent. B. and M. Ry.; E. B. Crosby, A. G.
F. A.: Philadelphia and Reading r. R.
Co.; s. M. Stevenson, general eastern
agent, Norfolk and Western -Ry. New
York; Walter H. Taylor. counsel for Old
Dominion 8. 8. Co.; H B. Walker vice
president and trafic manager; r. I.
Cheatham, traffic manager, Durham and
Southern Ry. Co.. Durham. N. c.; C. L.
Thomas. G. T. NJ, the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton Ry, Cincinnati Ohio; w.
d; Berill, general passenger agent. N. and
w. Ry.; Theodore Brent. c. r. I. and p,
st. L. and 8. F., Chicago.