Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
|HORN|[ EXPLAINS RATE
CORN BELT ASSOCIATION ATToR.
NEY REVIEWS EFFECT OF
COMMERCE DECISION.
RATE MAKING METHODS
COMPLETELY REVERSED
Rates on Hog. at 800 Iowa Points Re-
dlced, 700 Points Affected by Cattle
,Rates-Estimates That 100000 Per
Year Will Be Saved to Iowa Live
stock Shippers.
Special to Times-Republican.

|
! Washington, Iowa, March 2-Clif-
ford Thorne has just received a com
plete copy OF the decision of the inter-
state commerce commission in the
Corn Belt Association case on live
/ stock rates from Iowa points to Chi
cago. The stock men of the entire
state will be interested in the decision.
MIR. Thorne has given a representative
of the press the enclosed statement as
to the opinion just handed down by
the commission:
1.-THE decision effects the rates on
cattle. hogs and sheep. 1t completely
| reverses the present method of rate
! making on livestock, Iowa's principal
comm odity.. 1t causes regrouping
which puts these rates substantially on
| a distance basis.
1T reduces the present rates on hogs
| at 300 points, it reduces the rates on
| cattle at over 700 points, and it re-
duces the rates on sheep from over
1000 points in Iowa.
"The reduction from the present
rates on hogs will amount to. about
100000 per year, on cattle about
S40, 10000 per year, and ON sheep I
have no way Of estimating. This is
exclusive Of the fattening in transit
rates which were ordered in the former
hearing. The last named effect a saw
ing of from $50 to $40 a car on every
car of cattle or sheep handled in that
manner. Our case secured this for
the first time in the history of the state.
Kansas and Nebraska have had fatten-
ing in transit rates for fifteen years.
"The greatest reduction secured by
the supplemental decision is on sheep;
this amounts to from Is per cent to
20 per cent from practically every town
in the state Of Iowa.
There is no regrouping suggested
on hogs; regrouping is directed on
cattle and sheep.
"The complainant succeeded on every
point it contended for. We did not
get as much as we asked for, but the
result is quite substantial.
A"The total reduction secured in this
case is probably over 100000. This
does not mean, just 100000 in bulk,
but every year. That fum annually
would mean per cent On a couple of
million dollars; so that the amount in
volved is important
The case was originally decided
June 81. 1908, which in general terms
suggested regrouping of the Iowa
Chicago rates on livestock. We filed
a petition for a more specific ruling,
and five hearings on this petition were
held. This supplemental decision is
the result During the past year the
complainant made three propositions Of
settlement; and the defendants made
five propositions of settlement. The
last proposition. made by the defend
ants Nov. 1, 1909, is the one adopted
by the commission; with this exception
the commission orders a reduction in
the rates in northwestern Iowa of from
" ITO " cents per 100 pounds at each
point; in addition to this the commits
sion orders the recent raises in the
hog rates removed; and the decision al
so directs that sheep in double-deck
cars shall take the same rates as cat
tle
''The defendants have sixty days to
publish their tariffs in compliance with
the decision. if they fail to do so the
commission itself will make definite
schedule"