Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-13
Number Of Cases Involving Rail Rates
Reached by Interstate Commerce
Commission
ARGUMENT ON LUMBER CHARGES
Cases Involving Traffic to Common
Points West -
CHOLERA SERUM EXPERIMENTS
South Omaha Stock Yards Willing TO
Aid DEPARTMENT..
PLANS ARE BEING PERFECTED
Town senator. Back in Washins'o"
Again After Flying Trip t"
Dcs Moincs for
speech.
,BoLERA SERUM EXPERIMENTS
PLANS ARE BEING PERFECTED

WASHINGTON, May l2-tSpeclal Ice
gram)-E j. McVann,' trafftc commissions
of the Omaha Commercial club ond }. -
Kelley. general manager Of lhe burlington
are IN Washington 10 parGctp9;e !" the
argument Of q number OF cases pentnS
before the interstate commerce cUinm'S''On
and Instituted ny ,he OmIhl commercial
club against the Burlington and ether tall-
roads.
Argument was begun n the mrs, q lhe
Commercial club cases To-Day. involving
rates on lumber from Omaha t Nyonlin2'
Colorado and Kansas - nmon JOHNS lheie
are two cases under inis caption, TWO
other cases filed Dy tre Conn'e 'cial c'ub
of Omaha against he Burlington ahu
! other roads. relate TO rates on yetlo" pine
! lumber from southern points to Omahd'
! Another case is that oc the Cou'ine'cIdI
club against railroads invo.NnE rates on
butter, eggs and poultry from O'hahd 10
eastern seaboard points
| Stnl another case which the Burlington
| is interested as well as a number of west
ern roads, is that of the Louisiana Central
Lumber company, which involves rates on
yellow pine lumber from southern points
TO so-called combination territory in Ne
braska." The combination" includes near
~ the whole of the prairie state and ex-
tending west to the point where Colorado
rates obtain.
The suit of the Billings chamber of com
merce against the Burlington involves
rates on less than car load lots to the
basin territory. J. p Reynolds, of BILLINGS
Mont, is in Washington to present this
case for the chamber of commerce.
Indian BIZ In Conference.
aunOintad chair
man of the senate conference committee
having under consideration the bill author
izing the Omaha tribe, of Indians to sub
init their claims to the court Of claims
With Senator Brown are Senators Suther-
land and Purcell the house conferees being
4 jGampbell OF Kansas, Mcclure OF Oklahomo
and Latta OF Nebraska. The senate bill
: was considerably, amended by the house
and Senator Burkett, author of the bill
has not yet made up his mind whether tc
, accept the amendments or introduce a new
bill with hope of getting 1t through a.
this session of congress.
Hog Cholera Experiments.
Senator Burket has received advices from
General Manager E. Buckingham of th'
South Omaha Stock Yards company tina
his company will be pleased to furnish
facilities for conducting experiments look
ing to innoculation OF hogs for preVen
tion of hog cholera. At the request OF thu
5 senator, the Agricultural department will
at once advise the Stock Yards company
that thirty hogs will be needed to MAKE
q experiments and that month or mor'
will be needed to demonstrate the effec
af the serum. Rigid rules will be laiC
; down by the department as to diet, clean
! liness, etc.
Senator Burkett today introduced a bill
to increase the limit of cost of the post
office at Columbus, Neb., from $4,000 t
$4,000.
Senator Crawford today secured a fav
orable report on his bill to increase thu
salary of the surveyor general of Soutl
Dakota from 5000 to $500 per annum.
IOwans Back Again.
Senators Cummns and Dolliver, whit
spoke in Des Moines Tuesday night, de
Tending their course in congress in attack
ing the tariff law and assailng the Aid
rich Cannon leadership. returned from
. Iowa this morning Both were in thei
places in the senate today and were con
" graduated by their insurgent colleagues
Senator Cummins was greatly pleased witt
= his reception and that OF Senator Dollive
. in Des Moines.
= General Charles F. Manderson and wifi
are in Washington. guests at the Arligtor
Mrs. anderson comes to Washington t
= attend the annual meeting of the boar
OF regents of the Mount Vernon assoca
tion.
u J. r. Hays, postmaster at Norfolk. Neb
and wife of Norfolk, Neb., are in Washing
ton. Mr.. Hays comes to Washington upo
ID routine business in connection with hi
NJ office.
ei Postmasters appointed are as follows:
" Nebraska: Maskell, Dixon county, Ra
II F. Snyder vice Il. l.. Cook, resigned,
~ Iowa; PlainyieW. Bremen county, AmC
- A Lynes vice G. h. Kreiger, resigned
10 South Dakota: Novak. Lawrence count,
n. Nellie Cindel vice l.. b, Lynn. resigned.