The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-03
Interstate Com me rec
Commission nNotiiedof
Increased Rates.
WICKERSHAM is
NOT READY TO TALK
Attorney-oeneral Refuses to Tel
What Course Government Will
Take = Practically Every
System in North, From
Atlantic to Pacific,
Is Affected.

Washington, D. c., June 2.-Un-
dauntsd by the governments proceed
ings under the Sherman antitrust act,
by which part OF the proposed in.
crease OF freight rates in the terri
suspended by injunction. railroads IN
the East and in the Middle West to-
day flied with the Interstate Commerce
Commission tariffs embodying increas
cd rates.
Attorney General Wickersham de-
clines to indicate what course he will
pursue in behalf OF the government.
and the Senate, Just on the verge to-
day Of passing the administration rate
blu. hesitated. and finally postponed
action until another day
Tonight practically every railroad
system in the North. from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific. had filed with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission the legal
notification OF proposed increases in
commodity rates. Thc increases fled
to-day range from 3 TO 81 per cent.
starts on BriskIy.
The day started off by the fling of
schedules of increases BY the sew
York Central. the West Shore and the
Delaware. Lackawanna and Western.
Then the official proposal of the roads
and Milwaukee to- Indianapolis AMI
Ohio River points. twenty three in all.
was brought to the commission. Dur
ing the afternoon increased tartffs
from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago.
81 Paul and intermediate points were
nled.
The latter tariffs included those
from the Baltimore and Ohio. New
York. New Haven and Hartford. the
Boston and Maine. the Erie. the Della
ware and Hudson. the Lehigh Valley,
Tie New Jersey Central. the Pennsyl-
vania, the New York. Ontario and
Western and the Philadelphia and
Reading u
The Baltimore ard Ohio also filed
with the commission revised tariff
OF commodity rates from Chicago to
the Eastern seaboard.
The Increases proposed by the roads
in the Middle West range from to
81 per cent Those from the seaboard
TO the West varied from 3 to 20 per
cent. The Baltimore and ohio's in
crease on rates from Chicago to the
seaboard average about 10 per cent.
Those Increases were figured approx
Imately The time set for the increases
to go into effect on the Eastern roads
was generally July 5. On the roads In
the Middle West July l was the date
fixed.
Before the revised tariffs began to
pour into the offices of the commission
Attorney General Wickersham was re-
ceiving kilograms from Western ship
pers asking him to take action to
have the injunction issued by the Fed
eral court of Missouri extended to
other commodities especially wool
aToo Late" II Reply.
Replies were made that II was now
too late. 1t was explained that the
government included in the bill such
rates as had been called to its atten-
ton. and that the failure of other rates
to be included must be laid at the,
door of the shippers.
AS to the course of the government
In regard to the railroads in the East
and Middle West, the Attorney-General
was not ready to talk. Immediate ac-
ton is not necessary, inasmuch as
the rates are not to go into effect
for about a month.
It is believed the railroads will lose
no time in filing any other tariffs. on
account of the probability Of the eX.
pected early passage OF the admins
tration railroad rate bill
The bill in its present form gives
the Interstate Commerce Commission
power to Investigate the reasonable
ness OF proposed increases in rates and
to suspend their going into operation
as long as ten months
"