Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-12
Develops at Interstate Com
merce Commission Hearing
That This City Handles
Big Quantities of Produce.
EXAMINER PROUTY
HEARS THE TESTIMONY
Many Bright Legal Minds
Delve Into Question of
Freight Rates in New Mexi.
co and Arizona Here.


The long haul the short haul con.
c,utratiuu rates. graded rates.. blanket
rates. combination rates Via water
ana rail the rates asked Do, the SANTA
'r railroad aud the southern pacihc
railroad u Now Mexico and Arizona,
these aud many other questions were
| gone into at considerable length az
! the ulldW hcarlu, TO-DAY conducted
! Dos Ward rrUutN examiner ior the iu.
! tora.Hit Commerce commission. the
hearing being held in the court room
! 900 thc federal ugild.ug aud being at.
! tended b' many prominent auoturyH
! and WI'ursso. The hearing began
! promptly at 9.au Examiner pIOui,
| uu ths bench i e. Marcutnd arIu.
| uCt iur th, government immediately
! stated tuu case tor fhc United Sta'sD.
! hIst oi Jll however. expressing his
! appreciation thar thy hearing was bD.
| .ns held leo such beautiful cour
| Iouu. ana that the room was Co hc
| occupied for ihr first time since con.
| structIou ul hearing at The commits
| sion Mr Maiohaud then proceeded
| 'o outline the complaint An iuNcsti-
/ Htl. 'iiN 'I |li NNI'N IAt'N anu "h' N'.A
| rates rom point. in NcW Mexico and
! Arizona ON the Santa e. and south.
| clu Pacific railroads. whether the
| rate shall Dee blanket rate or
! graded lgtp aud the penalty or charge
| Ton stOppaEc in transit and the qucs.
| fion of The long and The short haul
| Having briefly outiilcf me Casc MI
| Marchand called the first witness.
Il nj A al
| ihc Fnnigan Brown Hide company,
| which maintains "a house la Albuqucr
| que M Brown gave his residence
ls 40 Paso. Texas. and at once under
| direction O.. Mr Marchand. explained
he weight OF green. saltci hides. the
| average s"ishi et It, hii"-, H"" DO"
| Hycrag, weight Cd sheep pclls MI
| Brown said that his company shipped
| GIdps from Arizonu West Texas and
| New NJ ,NlCO. that the rate On green.
| -Jliyi hides lrom M PI-u 10 NcW
/ Nur. Ha rail to Galveston and water
| rom Galveston 90 New YORK.. was SO
! cents per hundred. this rate being pos.
| siblp because of the Texas commission
| rate ont of ~ pasO In answer 10 a
| question. Nj Brown said that the
| Iai, over thc santa Fc oul of AIM
| lurrguc tu Sew Norh and points east
| ui thc Mi1-Issippl was , lu ana 81 ln.
| nom VI paso to Chicago A5c ana
| flG.. und nom Tucson, AriI., go New
| Yorh ON tho Suuthcru Pacific S22t -
| M Brown Jhou went into the situa.
| ton ou The southern Pacific IN Ari
| lona aaying that all : = rates be-
tween los Angeles and El Paso wore
| unreasonable
| CA cross examination Nj BIoWn
| AID that lIc rate OF 3 80 Oui ut Al
| 1uuucruuo was not unreasonable and
| that hc did not challenge that rate.
| When astrd b, Examiner pruutN TO
state his exact complaint Mn Brown
| said thai he had a general complaint
! against railroad companies because OF
| .conCcnt alton rates. which D, said
| are changed from one place to an.
other az various times.
Mere Ma Narchaud volunteered The
information that the southern pacihc
| railroad compan, has been nulihNd
| haj an thyir rates are challenged aud
mat hearing ON the matter VIII De
ncld in either Chicago or salt Lake
Cominuiue. Ma Brown said thai he
| Thought he practice ul the southern
Pacific To charge s. 80 from Los Ang-
| clcs 20 El paso ON hides ana polis'
aud ohiy 81 uO from M Paso 10 Los
| Angeles, Was unjust ana unrcUHnnaplc.
4 claim that shippers should pay
the same rdt" lCr ton pcI mile. said
| Nh Brown, in answer 90 a question
put h, Examiner prod!
| Counsel fOr the santa Fc rdill odd
! thCn took the witness dud cnHdnrir1
q cr0ss-cNaminHtiun for several mo-
menis going into the technical qucs.
ilous quite thoroughly with reference
10 the number ol bales ol hides that
can bee compressed and placed in a jb'
foot ear with & minimum weight al
loWaucc Ot 10000 pounds.
When the question @. concentration
rates War taken up Ma Brown cited
he concentration rates he believed
were effective In springer. silver NitN
aud other points Mr. Brown said ho
did not believe Il was fair to Trinidad,
for Instance, to make Springer con-
ccntmfion' point Niih q favorable
rate from Springer 10 Albuquerque
on other markets
Counsel Tor The Santa 'v volunteer
ed the Information that the concen'
tratinu rates mentioned had been
Withdrawn by the COMPANY
Returning to conditions on the
southern Pacific, M Brown said that
the rate from Clifton, Morencl Tue.
son and other points. Was S2.2i IL
per hundred on dry mites there be-
ing no rate on green, sallcd hides
other than Tucson rate The rate
west of Tucson he explained, Phoenix
Tor instance was a. 10 on the southern
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