The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-05-27
SWING PORTLAND
GATE BOTH WAYS
Roads Ordered to Sell Through Tick.
cts TO East and West.
Northern Pacific Objects to Joint
Traffic With the Hartman Lines,
Which Are Required to Make Like
Concessions the Other Way-WiII
Appeal to Courts.

Washington, May 22.-The first de
cision in the Portland gateway case !
in favor of opening. but this is onl
the beginning of what promises to b
a long contest. In decision rendere1
by Mr.. Prouty the Interstate Com
merce commission today ordered thu
Hartman lines and the Northern Pa
cific to join in the sale of through tick
cts and the through checking of bag
gage between Eastern and Pacific
coast points via Portland. Chairman
Knapp and Il. e. Clark dissent from
the decision.
The commission sustains the com.
plant against the Northern Pacific foi
refusing to sell through tickets via
Portland to points on the Union Pa
cifc and Chicago & Northwestern, in
Guiding Omaha, Kansas City and Chi
cago, and sustains also the complaint
against the Chicago & Northwestern,
Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and
Oregon Navigation company for refus-
ing to sell through tickets via Portland
to points in Washington.
BY the terms of the decision, which
is highly important to the travelling
public and to the Western and North
western railroads, the Northern Pacific,
the Union Pacific lines and the Chica-
go d Northwestern railway are ordered
to join in the sale of through passenger
tickets between Seattle and other
points in the Pacific Northwest and
Eastern destinations, via Portland, Or,
and to accord through facilities, like
the checking of baggage, over this
route.
The commission found in the present
case that substantial part of the en-
tire body of travellers moving between
these points in the Northwest and
Eastern destinations reasonably desire
to travel via Portland, and that there
fore the commission has jurisdiction to
open that gateway.
1t is also held that public interest
requires that this gateway shall be
opened; but that the terms under which
that service is rendered should be lust
as between the carriers themselves.
The commission was also of the opinion
that the through rates via Portland
should be the same as those in effect
via the Northern Pacific and its present
connections, but no opinion is express
ID touching division of these rates.
The decision orders first. that the
Middle West lines complained of and
he Northern Pacific shall establish he
ore July l, 1909, and maintain in
orce thereafter for not less than two
ears, through routes and Joint rates
,etween Chicago, Council Bluffs and
colorado common points via Portland |
nd points in Washington between
and Seattle, including the LAT
er, the Joint rates to be the same as
ne JOINT rates contemporaneously in
Meet between said points via the
Northern Pacific and its connections.
second, the carriers named are order
d to establish before july /. Joint
ates and through routes for passengers
nd baggage from points on the North
IN Pacific via Portland to Omaha. Kan
IS City, Chicago and other Union Pa
tic and Chicago & Northwestern
oints. " - 'eA"
1t is understood authoritatively that
is the intention of the Northern pa
nc, IN connection perhaps with other
'ads, to seek an injunction restrain
g the commission from putting ito
ger INTO effect. Should such an in
motion be granted, it would prevent
'e enforcement of the order during the
'riod OF the Alaska Yukon-Pacifc ex-
'sltion at Seattle, as it is estimated
at IL would require many months for
e courts finally to determine the case ,
its merits. N"se