The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-06-10
RlIIR0ADS FILE
NOTICE
LATE COMMERCE COMMITS
ME- ,ecEIvEs ADVANCED
TARIFF SHEETS.
in Freight Rates Ranges
''' to 81 Per cent-6elieved
,,creases Will Be Filed Short
n;oo Raise General Through
-. Country Both Ways.

,,...bipgton, June 4.-Undaunted by
NaSnl arnment's proceedings under
The Gum 'rman antitrust act, by which
he ~. spY Of T the proposed increase s. Of
spalI u .atas in the territory west of
frsls sa1i.sissippi river was suspended by
The nIs railroads in the East and
isa11s West have filed with the inter.
hl0uis o,merce commission tariffs OF
inI 's,ornev General Wickersham de-
A.0 - Indicate what course he will
el lssno j in behalf of the government,
p u1 the senate, on the verge OF the
anu wv Of the administration rate bill.
nmstponed action.
o,r railroad system in the North,
..' n''t the Atlantic to the Pacific, has
s sa with the interstate commerce
n omission notice of proposed in
e '..asas from to 81 per cent.
' The day started with the filing OF
.sodules of increases by the New
T 1 Central, the West Shore and the
n n Lackawanna & Western.
Thon the official proposal from the
,.ds trayersing the territory from
chicago and Milwaukee to Indianapolis
o,;o r;vor noints-tWenty-thr
in al-was brought in.
like the revised scheduled filed by
,so roads west of the Mississippi, the
Increased tariffs from the Central
vroigbt Association territory were
filed in concert.
Increase is Heavy.
The increases proposed by the roads
in the Middle West range from 6 to 81
nor cent. Those from the seaboard to
the West vary from to 20 per cent.
The time set for the increases to go
INTO effect on the Easern trOads was,
generally, July 5.
On the roads in the Middle West
July was the date fixed. Before the
revised tariffs began to pour into the
Offices of the commission, Attorney
General Wickersham was receiving
telegrams from Western shippers, ask
hg him to take action to have the in
junction issued by the federal courts
in Missouri extended to other commOd-
tiles, especially wool.
Shippers Too Late.
Reply was made that it was too
late 1t was explained that the failure
Of other rates to be included must be
laid at the door of the shippers. !.
Mr.. Wickersham said that no COM
plants had as yet been received by
him from shippers in the East or Mid
die West Furthermore, he pointed
out that conditions under which the
roads in the East and Middle West
had filed their cases might be entirely
different from those governing the &C
ton of the Western Traffic Associa-
ton. There was a feeling among
members of the commission that more
tarlffs will be filed within the next
lew days. making the increase general
throughout the country on shipments
both ways.
Roads in Haste.
1t is believed that because of the
PROBABLE early passage of the admins
usllon railroad bill the roads will lose
no time in filing other advanced tar
ifs.
Inc bill in it's present form gives
ue interstate commerce commission
pOSer to investigate the reasonable
A'SS VI proposed increases in rates and
:, wsuSpend them as long as ten months.
Onless the railroads had put their new
,w INTO operation by the time the
WI becomes law the interstate com.
ueiee commission might suspend their
operation.