The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-03
Companies Fly s1e'r New Tariffs in
Spite of 4 ,junction Notice
which soen Served
e. Them.
FROM ! TO 81 PER CENT
Roads Are Undaunted by the Govern
ment Proceedings and Make
Announcement of Their
New Figures.

WASHINGTON. June 3.-Undaunt- |
ed by the governments proceedings
under the Sherman anti trust act, by
which part Of the proposed increase
of freight rates in the territory west
of the Mississippi river was suspend
ed by injunction, railroads in the east
and in the middle west filed with the
interstate commerce commission tar
ifs embodying increased rates.
Attorney General Wickersham de-
clnes to indicate what course he will
pursue in behalf of the government.
and the senate, just on the verge OF
passing the administration rate bill
hesitated and finally postponed action.
Last night practically every rail
road system in the north from the
! Atlantic to the Pacific has filed with
| the interstate commerce commission
! the legal notification of proposed in
i creases in commodity rates The in
creases range from to 81 per cent.
The day started Off by the filing of
schedules of increases by the New
| York Central, the West Shore and the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
Then the roads traversing the terri
tory from Chicago and Milwaukee to
indianapolis and Ohio river points,
twenty-three in all, were brought in
to the commission. During the after
noon increased tariffs from the At.
lantic seaboard to Chicago, St Pau
and intermediate points were filed
The latter tariffs include those from
the pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Lehigh Valley, New Jersey Central
New York, Ontario and Western Phil
adelphia and Reading The Baltimore
and Ohio also filed with the commits
. sion revised tariff on commodity
rates from Chicago to the eastern
) seaboard.
Before the revised tariffs began tt
, pour into the Offices of the commits
. sion Attorney General Wickershan
was receiving kilograms from west
ern shippers, asking him to take &C
tion to have the Injunction, issued b,
the federal court in Missouri, extend
gu 10 QUIET COHllllOulGlSo, OoPSSIdli.
wool
d Replies were made that it now wa
too late 1t was explained that tn
government included in the bill sue
t rates as had been called to its after
g ton and that the failure of other rate
+ to be included must be laid at tn
t door of the shippers
o WASHINGTON. June 3.-The ser
: ate today adopted resolution by Bul
8 ton, instructing the interstate CON
5. merce, commission to send to the SCI
g ate a report giving full information a
o to the proposed rate advance and t
D furnish 100 samples of how leadin
d commodities are effected.
e Senator La Toilette announced the
n he would speak on the subject tomo
d low
y, CHICAGO. June 3.-Both sides, tn
70 railroads on one side and the shipper
and administration on the other, al
today completing their war plans.
meeting will be held here next Tue
ii day. The legal course of twenty-fN
al western railroads will be in sessic
IL here Monday to draw up rules
$, guide them in the defense.
te AS method of protection again
ID the mandates of the interstate col
lie merce commission, it is reported tn
the roads are cancelling orders f
improvements and in certain quartz
it is said they are preparing to dr.
r. several men.