The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-29
THAT INCREASE
CONTINUED from Page Seven.l
as against the then existing rates Of
1st class 60 cents
End class IS cents
3rd class IS cents
4th class 27 cents
5th class % cents

The jobbers at the river cities were
| particularly interested in the fifth
| class rate of 10 cents as established
: by the commission, it being reduc-
ton of cents per 100 pounds, ana
under this 19-cent rate, at least 85
per cent of their carload tonnage
would move However, they were not
particularly interested in the reduc-
ton as made on some of the higher
| classes although the reduction on
first class enabled the jobbers of dry
goods boots and shoes and hats and
caps to handle their goods upon
the reduction on the higher rates en-
abled the jobbers in the seaboard ter
ritory, who might do business in com
petition with the jobbers on the Mis-
souri, river, to lay their goods down
that much cheaper.
This feature did not necessarily
alarm the Missouri river jobbers, and
the case might have been forgotten
had not the commission within the
past week handed down a decision es-
tabIishing the following proportional
rates, not only from the seaboard
cities. but from all cities east of the
Indiana-Il1inois state line. 1t will be-
noted that this scale of rates had the
effect of increasing the rates as made
by the commission under their pre-
vious order.
The Different Scales.
First scale as ordered in by the
commission
1st class 81 cents
2nd class So cents
3rd class 80 cents
4th class % cents
9Th class 10 cents
The scale as just ordered in which
is to become effective December 80,
1911, is:
1st class 55 cents
End class Al cents
3rd class 80 cents
4th class rs cents
5th class 20 cents per cwt.
or the following advances:
LIST class 4 cents
End class cents
3rd class cents
4th class 2 cents
5th class l cent
Jobbers on the river are said to
not like the advance, insisting that
the commissions action is unwarranted-
Apparently, they are not so greatly
exercised at the advance in the rates
the seaboard as they are at the action
of the commission in making the new
basis applicable on business original
ing in the territory east of the Indiana
Illinois state line. This brings the cit
les of Indianapolis. Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Detroit, Pittsburg and Buffalo in
the arena as direct competitors of the
jobbers located at the Missouri river
on business which the Missouri river
jobbers claim should properly belong
to them.
Previous to the last order of the COM Z
mission, the rates from these cities east
of the Indiana-Illinois state line were
made ON the basis of the locals into
Chicago or Mississippi river plus the
locals therefrom to the Missouri river !
BY virtue of the commissions decision,
the jobber at Indianapolis or any of the
other cities mentioned. has a cheaper
ed rate upon which TO do business as
against the Missouri river jobber, and
there are indications that these middle
west jobbers intend to enter the field
quite vigorously.
What They Were After.
What the Missouri river jobbers were
after was a reduction of the rates which
would take care of the carload business
as moved by them. They were not
anxious to have the less carload rates, |
which were not used by them, but by
their jobbers in the east, reduced so
as to permit these eastern jobbers to
do business in their territory
1t seems TO be the policy of the COM
mission 10 do away with, wherever they !
can find it possible to do so, the so |
called basing points and establish /
through rates less than the combina- |
ton of locals. This policy acts as a two
edge sword-it gives relief to jobbers !
rates. but, as the commission |
cannot stop with these carload |
reductions, although it is possible that /
they might wish to do so, they have |
to go ahead and reduce the rates as /
applicable TO what the railroads and /
jobbers know al less carload shipments, !
and when they do this they cheaper