Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-26
Chicago Man Believes in Horizontal
Increase in Tariffs.
ASSERTS PROPOSED PLANS UNJUST
Witness Says the Shippers Feel Raises
Are Unreasonable.
PERKINS NAME AGAIN MENTIONED
Speaker Asserts He Understood Per-
kIns Agreed with Packers ON
Advance on Only Onc-HRIf
of Proposed Rates.


WASHINGTON, Nov 25.-several wit
nesses including Baltimore economist
still in his teens. occupied today's session
OF the Increased rate hearing before the In
terstatc Commerce commits sion Henry
Barlow of Chicago, director OF the Chicago
Association Of Commerce, formerly prcsi-
dent Of the Terre Haute and Evansville
railroad and allied lines, and traffic mana
ger Of the Wisconsin Central; Ezra L. VIII
hanson OF Cincinnati, commissioners ~ the
Receivers and shippers association OF that
city and for sixteen years associated with
the Queen & Crescent route, and B, 3. BUR
Euuder OF Baltimore. ~ years old whose
command Of railroad stock staustlcs headed
off cross examination were the days Wit
nesses.
Mr. Burguuder was put on the stand 10
testify to his own statistical computations
concerning "the rights Of stockholders"
Within a minuo he had he members of the
commission poring over copies OF his tables
and all the counsel listening TO his analyt-
cal interpretations and deductions Of the
! figures.
! BARLOW Wants General Increase,
Mr.. Barlow believed in q horizonucal in
crease in rates, n any were necessary.
which he was not willing to concede, lie
| thought iron and steel and coffee and sugar
should help bear the burden that the car
riers proposed to place on the public.
Cross-eNamined by Mr., Butterfield for the
New York Central lines Mr., Barlow denied
that he had taken the position that failure
to increase the rates on coffee and sugar
was one Of the reasons why the railroads
should not be permitted to put the pro
posed Increased tariffs into effect
Mr. Barlow said that his position was
that the shippers felt that the increases
were unjust and unreasonable, that they
We're discriminatory and that the shippers
Of those articles which were affected by
the increases had already paid their pound
OF flesh.
/ Mem0randn FILED.
Ezra r. Williamson filed a mass Of men,
oranda repIete with figures. intended 20
show the immense strides the railroads
have made In the direction Of filling the
pocketbooks of those controlling them Ile
referred particularly to two arms Of the
Pennsylvania system. the Pttsburg. Fort
Wayne & Chicago and the Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, Chicago & ST. Louis
He cited figures which, he said, showed
the excessive earnings of the Fort Wayne
road and said both roads revealed a splen-
did condition OF credit, quite up to the
per cent standard fixed by Presidents Nc
Crea Of the Pennsylvania and Willard OF
the Baltimore g. Ohio. Mr.. Williamson,
like the previous witness, declared en-
phaucally that the railroads did not need
any advance in rates.
PerlcinA' Name Mentioned.
While discussing the packing house
products rates, Mr.. Barlow again brought
the name OF George w. Perkins OF the J.
p. Morgan company of New York into the
, argument
Mr.. Barlow said he understood Mr. ePr-
kins agreed with the packers on an ad-
vance of only one-half Of what had been
. proposed.
Did he purpOrt to represent the rail
roads the beef shippers or anyone else?''
demanded Frank Lyon, attorney for the
commission.
Il don't know" replied the witness. Il
am told Mr.. Perkins came as a representa-
tive Of MIR. Morgan as a peacemaker be-
tween the packers and the railroads."
Mr.. Barlow said that after years Il might
be reasonably supposed that there would
be some diminution OF the price OF trans.
portatlon. Mr. Barlaw declared as an i'm
, preston that he believed the railroad state.
ments would show that the percentage oi
q cost Of conducting transportation to this
I gross earnings OF the railroad which he
said is the crucial test OF all Is constantly
4 decreasing instead Of increasing.
4 That" interrupted Commissioner Lane
: is absolutely contrary to the testimon,
before the commission in Chicago"