The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-10
REDUCED SALT LAKE
RATE NOT AFFECTED
Injunction in Spokane-P aciflc
Case Does Not Apply
to Utah.

News from Washington, as contained
In an Associated Press dispatch. to the
effect that the court of commerce had
granted temporary injunction In the
Rocky Mountain freight rate case.
created some apprehension locally until
the matter became properly understood.
Salt Lake is in now way affected by
this order OF the commerce court az
explained by s. V. Derrah. assistant gem
eral freight agent for the Denver & Rio
Grande and the Western Pacific. The
truth is. according to- Mr.. Derrah that
Salt Lake will reap additional benefit out
OF the order. inasmuch as more adyan-
tageous rates, comparatively, viii be en-
joyed by this city than by the other cities
affected The rates fixed by the COM
mission Will stand so far as this city Is
towards a contest Of the commission s
ruling in the matter, The new and low
er freight rates for Salt Lake VIII go
into effect on Wednesday. November l5.
and the temporary injunction which has
just been granted by order of the COM
merce court at Washington in other
cases will have no bearing on the Salt
Lake case.
There has been no appeal 10 the com
merce court by the railways from the
decision OF the commission as TO rates
upon freight destined to Utah common
points The commissions ruling grant
Ing the reduction will stand. and the
Commercial clubs celebration of the
traffic bureaus victory Will be held next
Wednesday scheduled.
The new and lower rates for Salt Lake
were secured only after years OF effort to
relieve the situation There was much
rejoicing over that achievement, and any
setback thereto at the present time would
have proved TO be Disappointing. indeed
There Will be general rejoicing among
Salt Lakes business men when the new
rates go into effect,
Holds Up Reduction.
WASHINGTON. Nov, o,-Expecsed re-
duction Of transcontinental railroad
freight rates was held up today when
the court of commerce granted a tenn
porary Injunction against the order Of
the interstate commerce commission In
what are popularly known as the Spo-
kane and other Pacific coast points rate
cases Tho order was made June 30 and
was to have become effective next
Wednesday.
The cases, Involve not only the back
haul freight rates from Spokane and
other iDtermountain points To Pacific
coast terminals, but also the application
law The order OF the commission, par
ucularly in the Reno case. laid down the
principles to be followed by The commls-
sion Tho effect OF the commissions or
Atlantic scaboard points to inter-Rock
Mountain destinations, In the reduction
of the transcontinental rates. the COM
mission recognized the effect of water
competition on the Pacific coast, but held
substantially that the rates from the
east TO cities Ike spokane ana Keno.
should he lower than TIC existing rates.
The transcontinentsl railways appealed
TO the commerce court, maintaining that
The order was practically coniiseatorH:
Late today the court issued The order
granting the preliminary injunction and
susDendinc the operation OF the order is
sued by the commission. The courts
nndInS leaves the transcontinental
frplxhi structure as II liz AT present,
In tho opinion of the members OF the
Interstate commerce commission the
most important feature of the injunction
is the courts questioning of the commits
sion's action respecting the long and
short haul clause. The court intlma ted
thar q proposed to make an investigation
~ the facts OH which the order Of the
coumission was based. in order 10 de-
terminc for itself a basis for final or
der.
Iiseiz. that the cases VIII not be deter
mined by the court for. several months
and that. whatever the Judgment Of that
court may be, the controversy VIII be
carried to the supreme courtA