The Washington times., 1910-06-30
COMMISSION LIFTS
RATES ON GRAIN
Recognizes Altered Railway
Conditions, Including Re
cent Wage Advances.

in a decision by the Interstate Com
merce Commission today. that body
took The significant action of ALLOWING
Increased freight rates ON grain and
srain products from BunaIo 90 points
. east ana in doing SO recognized the al
t5sed conditions caused hy increased
cJsJ Of operation by the roads. fncrld-
i1@ higher wages
iIis decision Iu favor of the roads
VIII. undoubtedly. encourage railway,
men ln the belief The commission is go
ing 10 allow them to increase rates in
ma ny cases. despite the action O., 20 t-.
commission Yesterday iu making heavy
cuts in rates in tre territory west of t1,
Missouri.
Inc dtc-sIon today was on rehearin.y
Of case of the Banner Milling Com
paHy. and othc-s US. the New yarl,
Central. LackaWduua, New Haven. Ie-
high, Pennsylvania. and Erie lines In
the original decision, the c0urf,.fesfa1
/ ordered reduction of cent y rates
OF II cents per hundred pounds IN fau-
I ana olher wheat products from suffaIO
20 New York and New York points.
ln0 or il cents TO New FugIaUF Driurs
These rates had been advanced from
II. tiho y cents, respectively. I'm the
/ SrFlnS OF 1866. and the BuT3T0 uUfarg
successIu!ly attacked the reasoua BILE
ness Of The advance.
Finds Conditions Changed.
in another case. known as The Jerui-
son case. the commission ordered re-
ductions in the rate on grain products
from Minneapolis and other points in
the Northwest through Buffalo.
Seheariuss were asked and allowed in
| The Banner case and the JeunIson case
L O. Fa#HHH HHH y g.r#.
CitlOns had changed. IL f8uuG tH4f a.
I reduce rates from the NOrthw-ast 9s rlro-
posed in the JeuuisOu case yrU.i4 dis
/ turn the entire rate fabric from milling
ceuJers on the Missouri. river and Yves.
ana would discriminate AGAINST mills
l IN the middle West The cor1rris-i9r7
found it was confronted with the aIrar-
ualNe or allowing rates TO be advanced
ton in all the territory vast of PuffeIo
II has decided to meet the situation nv
! allowing the advances east or EuTaI0-
ana not to cut the rates west.
IHe commission saws conditions have
: a.leIed 10 an extent since the earlier
decisions in 1@s--
Wage Increase a Factor
since the original hearing the ex-
penses Of operation upon the part of the
carriers have materially increased. ." saws
! the commission Particularly within
/ Lile iast LeN weeks all tie carriers IN
volyed IN the handling Of this traffic
from Bu1alO have made material ad-
NanceS M The wages of their er1pIOves
( Nhlch aggregate several million dollars
annually without undertaking al this
I time TO determine whether these in
creases in operating expenses DO or DO
not justify any general advance i'm the
/ rates or these carriers, this certain IN.
( Is change in conditions to which We
I cannot be oblvious I'm considering dis
matter at this time"
The commission today announced il
/ would not suspend the new freight
schedule No. 35, in official classification
territory, 10 take effect July l. This
means the schedule applies TO over 6OG5
} items ana effects the region north Of the
( Ohio and the Potomac, and east of
/ changes of which twentv-eight are re-
| duclons, and thirty advances. The
! principal increases are in vehicles and
automobiles. and the commission is r..-
prepared 20 say these should not be
made.