Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-28
ADVANCE PLANNED
IN EASTERN RATES
TranscontinentaI Officials in SEES
sion in Chicago Con-
slider Matter.
WILL BOOST WESTERN RATES
Proposed Schedule Has Not Yet Been
Approved by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.

Chicago, Nov. 2s.--TIanscontinental
| railroad officials in session in Chicago
are planning an advance in freight
| rates between Chicago, New York. Bos-
| ton, and other eastern points and the
Pacific coast The advance contem-
| plates increases amounting to rs and
80 per cent, ucCurrfng TO Il 'nrwsaafttcie
| published here today.
A plan Is contemplated which will
increase the rate between Chicago and
the Pacific coast, but also will cut down
materially the advantage over Chicago
which New York and Atlantic seaboard
shippers have enjoyed in the past. The
rates from Chicago and New York to
the coast heretofore have been the
same.
Under the proposed schedule. not yet
endorsed by the interstate commerce
commission, the rate from Chicago to
the Pacific is raised so cents q hundred
pounds, but New York has a dollar
added to the tariff its shippers now pay
on freight from there to Pacific coast
points.
The transcontlnental lines are now
in conference over their proposed
through schedule increases. In their
effort they seek shelter under the
amendment to the long and short haul
clause of the interstate commerce law,
effective Feb. II.
The railroads seek this increase as
alternative. They say they do not
want to be forced by the government
to reduce their rates to intermediate
points In the west, which in some cases
are higher than the existing through
rates to the coast.
Their alarm in this direction, tho
roads claim, is justified by the action
of the interstate commerce commits
sion In the Spokane rate case. where
the original rate from eastern points
cqualed tho through rate to coast
points plus the local rate from tho coast
hack to Spokane. Tho interstate COM
merce commission reduced the through
rate to Spokane first to an equality
with that to coast points and later to
10 cents less than that to the coast.
The railroads will ask the Interstate
commerce commission first to maintain
the existing rates. Failing that, they
will throw their whole energy into an
effort for an increase of existing
through rates to the Pacific coast % or
even SO 1-3 per cent.
THE TENTATIVE SCHEDULE. /,
a tentative schedule OF rates now
under consideration. advances the first
class rate from New York tn Pacific
coast cities from SO to 81 per 100 pounds,
with corresponding increases on the
lower OF the five numbered and five
lettercd classes The rates to inter-
mediate points are to be graded be-
tween these figures.
On this basis the first class rate
from Chicago to the Pacific coast
would be approximately $3.50 instead
of SO as ut present. s-,-t - sS.
The principal railroad systems in
'volvcd in the plan for read iustment
of the western rates are the Hartman
lines. including the Union Pacific; the
Hill lines. the Great NorMlcrn and
Northern Pacific; the Gould lines, In
Guiding the Western Pacific and the
Denver x Rio Grande; the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Irc and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. although nearly
every railroad In the United States
more or less directly will be affect
cd
I'VE simply are working on a plan to
present to the commission q tariff that
Will not conflict with the amendments
to tho long and short haul clause in
the fourth section of the Interstate
traffic director o fthe Hartman lines,
yesterday. Nothing has been decided
upon, and any rates thus far consider
ed merely are tentative"
"a s3.75 first class scale has been
discussed and also 81 SCALE said
another traffic official. There is moth
Ing tangible yet to present, The roads
are considering two general plans. One
Is to charge higher rates TO
points, as at pres
ont, and tho others Is to o..
tablish ~ uniform grade scale
for class rates. based on tho commits
sion's rates, which they prescribed as
reasonable. to the Intermediate points.
Taking $3.50 as reasonable for
= ,t,n Il Sol. H. q .
to tho coast would be somewhat higher
of course and New York would take
q higher rate than Chicago, although
the difference would be somewhat less
than the local rate OF rs cents from
New York to Chicago."