Arizona republican., 1911-09-15
|FOR LOWER
 WOOL RATES De Pass Returns From Chi
 cago and Albuquerque ARIZONA BY COMMISSION
It's Members Took Import ant Part in Proceedings and Were Highly Com mended for Assistance Rendered.


 the Arizona Railway Commission. re-
 turned home Wednesday night from
 Chicago and Albuquerque. wnere he
 mad been attending the hearings of
 the investigation of wool, mohair, hide
 and pelt rates. instituted by the In
 terstate Commerce Commission.
 w P. McNair was also in atten-
 dance at both hearings, and George J.
 Stoneman. attorney member of the
 Arizona commission. was present at
 Albuquerque and with V. O. Johnson.
 conducted the case al that point for
 Arizona
 The hearing at Chicago consumed
 Tour days, from September 9th to 9th
 inclusive. and was conducted ov Com
 missioner Prouty. A number of inc
 more prominent sheep men Of the
 northwest. including Ex Governor Gooding of Idaho. president of the Ma tlonal Wool Growers Association. were present and testified as to the existing conditions and need of lower rates
 Every minute detail of the sheep and wool industry. as conducted in their section, was gone into thoroughly. and some very interesting facts were de lveloped.
 Attorney Johnson and Haddock of Shoshone Idaho, represented the wool growers and had the case well in hand at every stage of the proceedings Gov ernOr GOOding was the principal wifi far ba
 out the proceedings proved to be tower of strength to the sheep men The hearings so far, have related al | most exclusively to wool rates. al | though few witnesses have testified on the subject of mohdir and hides All the railroads interested in the l transportation of wool were represent ed by their attorneys and traffic of ficials. J. A. Munroe. freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific railroad. F. C. Plaisted. of the Oregon Shore Line. F W. Robinson. of the Oregon Washington Railway and Navigation ! Co. and F. B. HOughton. freight traffic | manager of the Santa Fe, went on the ] witness stand in behalf of the railroad | interests
 Judge F. C. billiard. interstate com 1 merce attorney for the Hartman lines | was leading counsel for the railroads | and conducted practically all the ex- aminations of witnesses
 Opposed to the strong array of rail way lawyers present. was Victor q. Johnson. of counsel for the wool grow CTS, and the latter very clearly demon | strated his ability as a traffic attor- | ney and more than held his own in the | numerous tilts that took place between opposing counsel
 While Commissioner Proutv con ducted the hearing at Chicago, his son. Special Examiner Ward Prouty, will II be in charge of the other hearings and Il is accompanied by attorney J T Mar chand of the interstate commerce com mission
 Only one day was allotted to the hearings at Albuquerque, and in order to get in all the testimony in sc short a time the session was continued to much later hour than usual The wit nesses selected by the Arizona railway to present the testimony for Arizona had expressed the wish to introduce their evidence at Albuquer- que in preference to any other point Hugh Campbell, president, F.. A. Sawyer vice president. F. w Perkins. secretary and C. c. Hutchinson, mem- o Der of the executive committee of the Arizona Wool Growers association | were there and gave such thorough | and strong testimony in q behalf of the wool growers. that it was q deemed superfluous to introduce any J further evidence along the same lines
 Attorney Stoneman. in his direct ex- | of the witnesses, brought h put every fact in connection with the a sheep and wool industry that would '" )e of benefit to the wool growers in II heir efforts to secure lower freight CT 'ates. n l. w. TOmlinson of Denver. Colorado. P ecretary of the American National a i've Stock association, and one of the " 'est known rate experts in the west. u vas present and on request of Attor- c ley Marchand. took the witness stand 70 nd testified that the present rates are IT nreasonably high. giving his reasons pi or that opinion. IS The wool growers contend that. in rt smuch as practically all other com m nodities produced in Arizona have the W anne rates to eastern markets, as ap- ly from California terminals, the wool fe ates should also be on the same basis, VI nd that, as the terminal rate on wool h' s1.00 per 100 pounds, that should be SC he maximum rate from Arizona points. m frustrating these facts, DePass in m reduced several tables of comparisons, m howing the rates on all articles pro CT uced in Arizona. both from Arizona us eints and from California terminals o' howing also the freight charges and ra larket value of a carload of each. the th ates on each of them being the same ge