Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-25

as to the rates from zone No. >
| which is fartherest east. because
\ the rates from that territory are not
I particularly involved in these decis-
ions inasmuch as they generally are
controlled by ocean transportation
to the Pacific coast.
In concluding the discussion of
the Spokane case the commission re
port says:
1T may be asked why the schedule
of rates suggested by the commission
as reasonable should not be ordered
involved. The answer is that car
riers should be permitted insofar
as possible to adjust their own tariffs
and that it seems probable that in
compliance with this order carriers
must establish rates in substantial
accord with these suggested by us.
| 1t should be ever borne in mind that
| the acute complaint in this case is
the discrimination and not the I'M
reasonable rate. Obedience to this
order will doubtless result in some
rates from the east which are higher
and in others which are lower than
those suggested by the commission
since we did not then feel at liberty.
as the complainants requested. to
make the Spokane rate depend upon
the coast rate. But it is likely that
the resulting schedule will be more
satisfactory to the complainants and
no more burdensome upon the de
PENDANTS.
II the carriers establish under this
disposition of the case rates to Spo-
kane which are excessive, a further
order can be made in this proceeding
reducing them to a popular basis
In an elaborate discussion of the
long and short haul case. Commits
siOner Lane who prepared the Opin-
ions in these cases for the commits
sion, asserts that 1t must be affirm
atively shown by the carriers seeking
exceptions to the long and short
haul provisions that an injustice Will
not be done to intermediate points
by allowing lower rates to the more
distant points.
The intention of the amended
laws says Commissioner Lane, lis
to make its prohibition of the higher
rate for the shorter haul a rule
of well nigh universal application
from which this commission may
deviate only in special cases and
then only to meet transportation
circumstances which are beyond the
carriers control
1t is held that lin the light of his
tory it is not to be gainsaid that the
transcOntinental lines must give
consideration to sea competition"
1t was held also however, that the
carriers herein involved have not
show that undue discrimination
was not effected by their rate ad-
justments between points i'm Nevada
and points in California: nor have
they established that the rates to the
coast cities. if extended by them
from eastern points outside the zone
of water influence are not fully
compensatory"
The transcOntinental carriers, there
fore are ordered to readjust their
present rates by October Is next
from eastern territories to inter
mediate points as compared with the
rates from Nevada points to the
Pacific coast
This will make a reduction of
rates to Reno and Nevada common
points from the east of approximately
SO 1-3 per cent.
In the course of opinion Commits
sioner Lane says:
I'VE desire to be extremely con-
sentative in this first application
of new law and to require an ad-
justment of rates that will be safely
within the zone of our discretion.
For this reason we have decided
that the transcOntiental carriers serv-
ing in Reno and other points upon
the main line of the Central Pacific
shall make no higher charges upon
articles carrying a commodity rate
than is contempOraneOusly in effect
from Missouri river points such as
Omaha and Kansas City to coast
terminal points. This principle we
shall also expect to be applied on
rates to all main line
points in Nevada and
California
Some of the petitions under the
fourth section are made by carriers
California terminals through
out Southern Nevada and Arizona
These applications for relief are denied
insofar as they involve the imposition
Of higher rates upon intermediate
points than are applied on cOmmo-
1ities from the Missouri river to Los
San Francisco and other
Pacific coast terminals"