The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-06-27

With the offering of Consolidated
Steamship Company stock in exchange
for shares of the six old coastwise lines
the business world was appraised of the
fact that the plan of combination pro-
posed by Charles w. Morse was complete.
The new company is capitalized at $780,
100000 under the laws of Maine. The
only Morse line not thus merged is the
Hudson Navigation Company, which OPP
crates the Hudson river lines.
An effort to secure reduction in the
rate of fare charged by the Pullman COM
pany for sleeping car accommodations has
been made before the Interstate Com
merce Commission, complaints being filed
against the company and various north
western railroads by George s. LOTUS, a
business man of st. Paul. lie says he is
obliged to travel to various points, and
alleges that the rates Of the Pullman COM
pany are excessive and unreasonable
In statement issued recently the
Pennsylvania railroad frankly avowed its
purpose TO "get square, for the new 2
cent fare law by abolishing all commu-
tation rates and selling only tickets at
the uniform rate of cents mile. Even
ten-trip and workman tickets will be
dropped and no excursion tickets will be
sold after Sept. 80. unless the courts
shall have ruled against the law, as the
Pennsylvania officials confidently expect
The Reading, which had begun to make
some concessions in response to the rising
tide of public Indignation, stopped short.
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Pennsylvania, and Beer said nothing fur
Their would be done. Baer's company also
filed bill in equity to upset the law on
the ground that the loss involved would
be contrary to charter rights.
The United States Supreme Court on
a Georgia lumber firm against the South
ern railroad, unimportant in itself, but
which Indirectly sustains the power of the
Interstate Commerce Commission under
the federal rate law TO fix railroad rates.
The commission had decided that an in
crease of cents a hundred on lumber
from Georgia to the Ohio river was I'M
reasonable and unjust, whereupon the
railroad carried the matter up to the
highest court, which now sustains the
action of the commission.
The city of Philadelphia has been stir
red to resentful expression and boyco.ts
against the Reading railroad on account
of its rate-raising retaliation for 2-cent
fare legislation. BY order of President
Baer, he of divine right fame in con-
nection with the miners strike, ali sub
urban Communication rates were raised
from % to 100 per cent. Public meet
ings were held promptly and commit
tees were appointed to organize the en-
tire city, and various business and trav-
cling mems associations are backing the
movement. Rather than pay the increas-
ed rates. many suburbanites began riding
in on trolleys, and business houses plan
ned to divert freight to other lines.
In the court of claims at Washington
suit has been fled by the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad TO recover
S61 100000, representing the value of the
lands of the five civilized tribes claimed
by the road through original grants of
alternate sections. Last year the suit
was brought in the name of the State of
Kansas. but the Supreme Court ruled that
the interest of the State was too remote.
The matter has been political issue in
Kansas.