The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
rtuaIIy Every Company Not
Infected by Injunction Files
Notice of Increase.
)ME SCHEDULES BOOSTED
To NEARLY 0NE-THlRD
hat Action Government May
Take Is PrOblematical at
the Present Time.

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= WASHINGTON, June 2.-Undauntcd
See the government 5 proceedings undcI
yS Sherman antitrust act. by wAic" ="
tkst of the proposed increase oi irc.s"'
hes in the territory west OF the MIS-
,ussipppi river was suspended by lh!un,-
nk n railroads in the cast and mldolc
n st today fled with the interstate
nmcrco commission tariffs oil III
rt.ased rates
nAitoruey General Wickersham dc
! !. 9acs 10 indicate what course ne VIII,
!. tsuc in behalf of the government, ana
a a senate, Just on the verge TO-DAY o.
an.sinp the administration rate bil',
q ;itated. and finally postponed ac'ioh
iii tomorrow. .;Iro,d
rtTonight practically every rail'9au ,ha
Lastem from the North Atlahllc 10 uno
4 Mississippi has filed with inc lnIcrstGEo t;G
= ,,,mcrce commission the legal noV'l,-
ion of proposed increases III cVnin,o nm
D7 rates The increases range from &"
~, 81 per cent,
UM Eastern Roads First.
rbe day started with the filing. oi
as,edules of increases by the New ork
'a-.ntraI. the West Shore and the Dela-
gre I,ackawanna & Western ihcn
"a official proposal from the roads
Io.yersing the territory from Chicago
nd Milwaukee TO Indianapolis and ONO
Kis er points-twenty-thr III all-WaS
Ought in. During the afternoon IN
= = 1ased tariffs from the Atlantic sea
= yv'lrd TO Chicago, st. Paul ana ihIeri'ic'
lie points were fled.
,s1Like the revised schedules hied ny tne
ds west of the Mississippi. the m
rizased tariffs from the Central Freight
pociation territory were Iicd IN con-
nat On the other hand, the eastern
Ids filed their revised tariffs lndivld-
SLY.
4. The increases proposed by The rail-
Dsds in the middle west range from
% 81 per cent Those from the sea
ard TO the west vary from ) TO ~
2H cent. The Baltimore X OHIO S IN
,,1,ase on rates from Chicago 10 the
ilbboard average about 10 per cent.
rhc time set for the increases TO 90
.r< 10 effect on the eastern roads WIS
y aerallv July ). On the roads in the
sddlc west, July ] was the date fixed.
% fore the revised tariffs began to pour
= 10 the offices Of the commission At
= fney General Wickersham was recelN-
y q kilograms from western shippers,
i ding him to take action to have the
ri unctIon, issued by the federal court
Missouri. etcnded TO other commodi-
.sS,s, especially wool.
N Too Late for Action,
SSaaReply WAS made that it now was too
:, : ,e il was explained that the gov
"rs1ment included in the bill such rates
a d'had been called to its attention, and
s4t the failure Of other rates to be in
ie 1ded must be laid at the door of the
lppers.
- As to the course of the government
III regard to the railroads IN the cast
md middle west, the attorney general
Ills not ready to talk. Immediate ac-
IN is not necessary, inasmucn as the
efrtes are not to 90 into effect for n
"a )nth
n ANTS had rs yet been received by him
itom shippers in the cast or middle
.er ,st.
trrFurthermore, he pointed ont that con-
!, s:ions under which the roads in The
e'sSt and middle west had filed their
Tses might be entirely different from
ats ose governing the action or the west
ser Q Traffic association.
uIhere was feeling among members
@ the commission that more tariffs will
w. W. filed within the next few days. max
the increase general throughout the
>nntry on shipments both WAYS.
n ~ Is believed that because Of the
n pbablc early passage Of the admins.
Gption railroad bill, the roads VIII lose
time IN filing other advanced tariffs
:, INC blll IN It's present form gives the
~ Terstate commerce commission fine
,ssfwer to investigate the reasonableuess
r y proposed increases in rates and to
mespend them as long rs ten months
qu} less the railroads had put their new
w. {es INTO operation by the time the
81 becomes law. the Interstate com
1r t.ree commission might suspend thell
re eration-