Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-13
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Attempt Of Twin Cities to
Enlist Them in Rate
Fight Fails
Duluth Stand Meets Approval
Of Southern Minnesota
Towns

DULUTH, April 13.-Members of
the Duluth traffic commission are not
fearful that the efforts being made
through Twin City newspapers to
create the impression that the Duluth
lake and rail case is prejudicial to the
whole northwest, will be successful.
The action of the southern Mime
sofa cities in sending representatives
to the hearing at Washington and TAX
ing an attitude in accord with that of
Duluth, and the brief of the traffic
bureau of the Sioux City Commercial
club are effective answers to the
claims of the Minneapolis men who are
endeavoring to create the false impress
sion.
Senator T. E. eastman of Ovation
ma, author of the eastman distance
tariff bill in the last legislature, has
made an exhaustive study of rate
matters in Minnesota. He was chos-
en- to represent southern Minnesota
cities at the hearing at Washington
and he made q vigorous attack on
the relative adjustment of rates, CIV
ing to the Twin Cities undue prefer
ences and withholding from other
cities their due in equitable rates.
AS a matter of fact, if the pres
ent dihferentials, Twin Cities over
Duluth. are right. other rates through
out Minnesota are too high by far. II
the Twin Cities rates are not night,
they should he corrected. The prefer
ences the Twin Cities have enjoyed
over Duluth are only similar to pref
erences enjoyed over other cities in
the northwest.
II the differentials, Twin Cities over
Duluth, are too low, the traffic is not
bearing it's relative portion of the
whole expense of the railroad systems
and higher rates in other parts of the
state are necessary to make up the
deficiency. The correction of the rel
alive adjustment is the object OF the
case, Once discrimination is removed
the rates in dollars and cents Will
work themselves out on a basis salts
factory to every one who has been
Disseminated against.
No effort has been made by the Twin
Cities to justify theDuluth-TW1n Cities
differentials in themselves. If the traf-
fic handled under the differentials is
remunerative the claim of the rail-
roads in the Minnesota rate case what
the distance schedule was unremuner.
alive is absurd.
Minneapolis Discredited.
The state at large is showing DIS
position not to take the word OF the
MINNEAPOLIS Traffic association on
freight rate matters. There are stu"
dents of railroad rates outside OF the
Twin Cities and those who have in
tervened in the lake and rail case
have done so in support of the Duluth
contentious. That makes Duluth men
hopeful that the efforts OF the TWln
Cities to array the country against Du-
luth as a disturber will fail.
John l. Ollie, counsel for the Mime
apolis Traffic association, charged, in
an interview published in Minneap-
oils paper yesterday, that Duluth is
only a catspaw in the lake and rail
case and that Chicago is standing be-.
hind this city. The same charge is
made in the brief of the Minneapolis
association.
Duluth men brand the charge as
too absurd to be considered. This is
Duluth's fight and was begun before
Chicago was known to have any inter-
est in the case. H. C. Barlow, traf-
fic director of the Chicago Associa-
ton of Commerce, stated under oath
on the stand in the hearing at wash
ington that he knew nothing Of Du-
luths intentions until the Duluth me-
mortal was presented and that he had
never been consulted in regard to Du-
luth's case. The Minneapolis people
virtually charge that Mr.. Barlow
who is known as one of the country's
substantial business men, deliberately
perjury in the Washington
hearing.