Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-14
EXPRESS RATE PROBE
 IS PROVOKING IRE
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Af express company plants with the post office and rural delivery and the elimination of the express com pany profits, which are averaging over fifty per cent"
 Mir. Lewis takes the position thaJ an efficient parcels post cannot be maintained, and makes the state ment that 'the express companies ars positive hinderances and obsta. cles to the business of the country.
 Great Bitterness Felt.
 There is no doubt that intense bitterness against the express com panies has been aroused in recent years. over a year ago, one hun dTed and twenty of the moss in- fiuentiaI business organizations ot the United States, including the New York board of trade, and the New Merchants exchange urged the in. terstate commerce commission to make a sweeping investigation of the rates and methods of the ex- press companies. Information placed before the commission at the time was considered by the commission in dealing with a number of cases brought against individual express companies
 it is the intention Of the inter state commerce commission. regard less O. what action is taken on the Burleson resolution to delve into the question Of whether rates. cIassiri- cations, regulations, and practices or the companies are unjust or un- reasonable, or unjustly discrimina- tory, or unduly preferential or pre- judicial in any respects-that is. in violation of the interstate commerce act.
 The commission has ascertained already that the express companies can afford to make material redue- tiOns in their rates. The reductions made voluntarily by the express com panies, after seeing the handwriting on the wall" are appreciable. Where two companies are 10 handle a pack age before it reaches it's destination. the express raxes are figured on 3 graduated scale of weights based upon 100 pounds. For example, r the rate on 100 pounds is Sl bg the Adams Express company, to g junction with the United States Ex- press company and is from tnsi junction to the shippers destination the combined rate would be S2. il is contemplated by the express com panies to make that combined rEse Sl.6O.
 The proposed schedules would make reductions on about go pei cent of the track handled by ex press companies and to the extenl Of proximately r. per cent This | IT per cent is the estimated aver age reduction on the coms:nauor and graduated rates.
 Will Probe Deep.
 Few investigations by the fedeF1l government have Leen as Tar -efc.- ing and as thorough as iI is planned to make this inquiry into the practices and management ol express companies. The interstate commerce commission will send .ex aminers and investigators through out the country and the books and newspapers of the varIous com. panies will be subjected to close examination. As a resul. of this pfcbe. which Is expected to be pros. ecuted dIrIEs the remainder of this i year. it is believed many startling and sensational c.scl l5sures Will Dc made as to ownership and combina- tions.
 In all probability there win be no opposition to the express companies proposed reduction in charges, mas much as all put one company, the Long Island Express cOmIany, filed new schedules. The reduced rates will become effective August Later there may be sirther reduc tions. due to the commission's 's probing.
 These Emulated Crockett's Coon l Following are the companies which are the subjects of the interstate commerce commissions investiga ton: Adams Express company. Amer jean Express company, Borough Ex