Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-11-19
ATTENDANCE
At HEARING At
ROSWELL
Dozen High Santa Fe Officials
Other Railroad Men ana
Representative Gathering Of
Business Men.
EMINENT COUNSEL FOR
VARIOUS INTERESTS
lspecIaI Dispatch 60 SsveniaE neraIdl

Roswell. n. d.. Nov. Some ln-
tercsting sidelights on rate matters
~ affecting the Pocos valley OF New
Mexico; matters Of alleged discrim-
lnation ana unsairuess bat withul
showing that the Santa Ne Railroad
company has given splonGh trans
portatlon service Tor the marketing OF
the valley products featured the hear
ing held here by Judge J. G. Gle.
mcnts OF the interstate commerce
commission this week. seldom has
there been such distinguished gath
ering OF railroad officials. lawyers
and citizens as assembled Co attend
the hearing. The entire rate sltua-
tion in the valley w8H thoroughly
threshed over and evidence from cv-
cry possible angle was taken hy the
commissioner, both shipping Interests
and railroads being spiendldiy repre-
stntcd
The state corporation commission
was present
Hugh n. Williams. chairman. o. l..
owen and NJ. =. Groves; their rate
clerk. B II. Seggcrson and stenoxra-
phcr. Miss Minnie Brumbach.
Attorney General Frank W. Clancy
being unable to be present. Judge $.
H CoWaH, OF Fort Worth. represented
the commission
The attorneys of record appearing
for the various parties Interested wcro
as follows.
Rufus q. Daniels. Of gi Paso. and
Scott Etter, of Carlsbad for the Carla.
bad commercial club pccoa Water
Users association, Pesos commercial
club and Artesia chamber of com.
mcrcc ns intervening lu both the cor
poration commission ana Roswell
cases
r. NJ. Hartman. Tucson Ariz., ANA
J. q Stubbs. of Los Angeles. Tor the
southern Pacific railroad.
A. y. Brown. W G. Barnes aud
Hawkins s Franklin of IN paso. Tor
the w. Paso and Southwestern and
The Rock Island railroads
$ r. Bledsoe. of oklahoma City. W
9. Reid. OF Roswell nnd 3. H. Cole
man. OF Chicago. for the Santa Pc
railway
A. B MarSley. of washington, p
INC examiner for The Interstate COM
mcrcc commission
The following railroad officials
werc present:
Fred C. Fox general manager
western tines Amarillo. r. r.. Hough-
ton. freight traffic manager Chlcn-
go; q, Eoon2 general freight agent
Topeka; a. a. Anewult general
freight agent Los Angeles. n l.. Mcy-
crs, assistant general freight agent.
Chicago. J ) Coleman, assistant gen
ornl freight agent. Chicago; J Brink
er, freight aud passenger agent Amp-
rillo. W B Brown, general freight
agent El raso. A l.. Conrad assist
uut general auditor Chica 90. q W,
oliver assistant statlsticinn. Chicago;
J T.. Mcmahon superintendent rlo-
Wis. all OF the Santa l'e systems A IS
prowu general traffic manager ana
w O. Barnes assistant general freight
agent of the El pasn and Southwest
ern system and ~ g. Lrmbert. Den-
yer. assistant general freight agent of
the Colorado and Southern railway
The court room was filled hy repre-
sentative citizens from all parts ~
tho valley g. " McLcnnthcu and o.
q Tracy of Carlsbad were there g.
g. Cook. tho Lakewood hans~r rnI-
lowed tho proceedings closely There
were g. H. Williams or Muloga g. y.
Purdu ana W * fackcy of Loving
Ice y Freeman of Carlsbad n cs.
pscialy Interested Ca tho hay rate
and low rate ON fertilizer
Tho cHIp uarut before ihe interstate
commerce commission on complaint
flied hy the state corporation CONE
mission against nearly every railroad
in tho country asking FOR read
iuslmcnt of rntcs Go NeV McNico
points The complaint grows out VI
a hearing hr'd ln Roswell in 1919 by
tho commission and WAS broadcned
to cover tho entire state Roswell
filcd "a separate complaint Carls-
bad. Artesn and other towns ln the
south end intcrvoucd ln both cHsCa II
appears from Uts ot ratos iu The
printed complains ihnt arc COMPLIED
from the regular tariff sheets that
rates take horizontal jump ora
roachlng thc New Mexxico line Rates
both u and outbound are attacked.
After tho formal prehminaries
Judge CoWan for the corporation
commission. made the opening state
mrnt iic explained in % general way
the contentious OF the corporation
commission and outlined what was
wanted Counsel Tor the railroads.
= r. Hicdsoc. objected to some oi
the things that Judge CoNuu wanted
Included. and there was some spare
ring over thc matter OF admitting ro-
ports on zoe with the interstate conn
mcrcc commission as part of the
case Judge J g.. Clements. tho conn
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