Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-07-10
BAR ELEVATOR ALLOW ANCE
Union Pacific Estopped from Pay
ments to Peavey Company.
FORMER ORDERS INEFFECTIVE
President Appoints william Geddes of
Grand Island Government Conn
missioner to the seattle
Exposition.
CFrom a staff CorrespondentJ


WASHINGTON, July 9.-(Special Tele-
am.)--The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has once more swiped the Union Pa
ciflc railroad for granting allowances to
elevators on petition Of tho Chicago Board
OF Trade. and protests from other quarters,
indicating an extension of the practice Of
making elevation allowances.
In an opinion handed down today by
Commissioner Harlan, the Union Pacific is
estopped for a period of two years from
paying any allowance whatsoever to Peavey
& Co. on their own grain received in their
own elevators at Kansas City or Council
Bluffs, or on grain received at said ele-
vators in which they have either a direct
or indirect interest that is not shipped
out OF said elevators in ten days after its
receipt and the Union Pacific is ordered
to stop paying any allowance to Peavey &
Co. on grain belonging to them that has
been mixed, treated, weighed or inspected
in elevators at either Kansas City or Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Opinion by Harlan.
Commissioner Harlan in rendering the
opinion in the case says: 1T is our opinion
that our previous order of a cut in the
allowance of ~ cents per hundred pounds
to three-quarters Of l cent does not reach
far enough and has not been sufficient to
cure the evil of which complaint was made,
that allowance of IA cents per hundred
pounds was more than cost to Peavey &
Co and was therefore an unlawful rebate.
But advantages that are unlawful may be
enjoyed in ways that do not involve the
direct payment of rebates and we think
! that Peavey & Co. do enjoy in actual
/ operation OF their contract advantages that
! do not accrue to other shippers of grain.
| The mixing of grain is said to be one of
the largest sources of profit to grain deal
ers BY mixing a carload of inferior grain
with a carload of grain of a higher grade
| the aggregate value of the two carloads
is increased and the dealers profits from
the sale are larger than they would be II
the two carloads were sold separately. The
storage of grain beyond the elevation
period of ten days is also of commercial
value to the grain dealers. If, therefore
| the Union Pacific Railroad company pays
to Peavey & Co. an allowance of three
fourths of / cent or of any other amount
however small, on grain belonging to them
which has been mixed, treated stored
weighed or inspected in their elevators
it amounts to contribution by the Unior
Pacific Roailroad company TO Peavey 6
Co. of the cost of securing these com
mercial results and benefits.
mo way has been suggested by which the
Union Pacific Railroad company may avai
itself Of the Peavey q Co. elevators under
the contract in question. without giving tC
Peavey & Co. and to their grain the com
mercial advantages alluded to, an undu,
and unlawful preference"
i Exposition COmmissiOner Named.
President Roosevelt has appointed mem
bers of the Government Board for tn,
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition, to be hel,
at Seattle next year. The board Is com
posed of three members, Jesse II. Wilson
assistant secretary of the Interior depart
ment; William Geddes of the Treasury de
partment and William Decravenel of tn
Smithsonian Institution and National Mu
scum. They are charged with the genera
} supervision of and the preparation of tn
government exhibit to be made from tn
departments from Alaska, Hawaii and tn
Philippine Islands. Mr.. Geddes, who is fror
Grand Island, Neb., is also made secretar
and disbursing officer of the board, thi
being the sixth exposition in which he ha
been identified with the governments par
ticipation, having began with the Trans
mississippi exposition at Omaha.
4 On the recommendation of both Nebrask
2 senator's DR.. J. r. Ralph has been appointe
4 pension examining surgeon at Omaha
r vice DR.. w. H. Christie, deceased.
e The gross receipts of the Omaha postoffic
e for the month of June were 1900. againi
e $5S, 4S0 for the same period of last year, a
II increase of S4,sO5.
}, Charles w. Washburn has been appointe
: postmaster at Malcolm, Lancaster count!
Il Nebraska, vice Frank s. Daney, resigned