Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-04

eminent in the injunction case against
the Western Trunk Line committee,
said if anything was omitted In the
petition filed Tuesday he did not know
it. The petition, he said, was prepar-
ed In washington.
The order of Judge David P. Dyer,
restraining twenty-five western rail-
roads from advancing freight rates
was placed in the hands Of the United
States marshal last night. Three COM
panies having general offices here will
be served today. Copies of the order
last night were sent 70 Chicago, Kan
sas City, St. Paul and Parsons, Kans.,
where the general Offices of the rail-
roads are located.
Following the filing of request to
expedite the hearing. it was announced
that Judges of the United States cir
cult court, Adams, Vandeventer, Hook
vacation. In that event the hearing
would take place In st. Paul, where
the Judges are now holding court.
Railroad Mon In CONSERVATION.
Chicago, ILL.,, June 2.-Railroad Off
Gals were thrown into CONSERVATION
because their revenues are reduced
with prospects of still further reduc-
tions by the application of the through
rate principle to their other schedules.
This they declare will throw the rate
structure Of the entire west into chaos.
Early advice of the decision was re-
ceived from Interstate Commerce
Commissioner q. E. Clark, who wrote
the Missouri river decision, by Luther
NJ. Walter, former attorney for the in
terstate commission and now assistant
general counsel for Morris & Co., who
both cases through the local
courts and presented the argument be-
fore the supreme court.
Claim Rates Are Disturbed.
'"The decision means a chaos Of
rates all over the country" said E. B.
Boyd, assistant to the traffic vice-pres-
ident of the Missouri Pacific, who was
the principal rate expert for the rail-
road lawyers in the case. "The COM
was either trying to favor the
Missouri river cities or was attempt
ing to formulate definitely the princ1-
pie of through rates. II that principle
Is established it must be applied In
every direction, which means that the
further away man is from the point
Of origin the cheaper his rate will be
proportionately."
cit looks as if they were trying to
force another panic" said H. q.
Nudge, president Of the Rock Island.
1.-The railroads are absolutely tn need
Of more revenues. The increase in
the volume Of traffic does not bring in
creases in net earnings, because the
increase demands such great In
creases in equipment and improve
ments to provide for it. For nine
of the fiscal year including
April nearly every railroad running
out Of Chicago is showing a decrease
In net In spite of the increase in gross
and this has come about before the In
crease in wages has become effective
to any great extent"
Claims Shippers Are Wrong.
Commenting on the governments
decision to appeal to the courts to en-
jofn the scheduled advance in railroad
rates, President p. P. Ripley, of tie
Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road company, said yesterday in a
"It is true that there Is a direct
conflict Of statement between the rail-
roads and the shippers as to the condi-
lion of railroad earnings"
'1n their resolutions adopted at Chi
,ago on May 7, 1910, the shippers make
the bald statement that an analysis Of
The figures Of the Interstate commerce
indicates that the net in
come per mile Of road for 1907 has in
creased 345 per cent over 1897. Also
that the returns for the first seven
Of the fiscal year 1909 1910
show substantial increase In net OPP
Grating income, thus indicating a
healthy growth Of business and rela-,
lively cheaper operating cost.
Statements Branded as False.
Now. these statements are abso-
lutely untrue, and the shippers have
been deceived by those who made the
Where the returns for the calendar
year 1907 showed earnings from oper-
alton of $1l,54S per mile those for 1909