The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-09-19
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Issues Formal Order
Re-0pening Case and Set
ting Date for Hearings.
WESTERN ROADS WILL
ALSO PARTICIPATE
Will Mean Hearing on De-
mands for Increase on SO
Basis Throughout the En-
tire Country.

Washington. sept. la.-''he inter-
state commerce commission today de-
cided TO re-oppn the eastern advance
rate eaae and viii begin hearines mere
on October ~ A formal order to
that effect was prepared.
The decision of the commission
comes upon the recent application OF
the railroads which was made after
President Wilson had received rep
Icsentatiye committee OF railway pres
idents M the White House How far
that conference may have gone to-
ward preparing the way FOR a re-
opening of the case is not known. AZ
the time railway men asked the pres-
ident To appeal 10 the county to treat
thc railroads in a spirit Of ro-upeTn-
tion and the president responded by
sending sympathetic letter 20 Chair
man Frank Trumbull OF the Chesa-
pcake aud Ohio.
The railroads also asked the COM
mission 60 modify its recent decision
which granted increases west OF PITTS
bursh and denied an increases be-
tween the great laHes ana the Atlantic
seaboard Under the law the com
mission cannot modify that order
I " AAaA'AAA AA''t fAANNH Wv NHNf"ANAi w ~
open the case brings the whole ques-
tion up again Tor review. u s said
/ the railroads will press for the . per
cent increases throughout the terri-
/ tory east of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
Western railroads already are pre-
/ pairing applications tor increases iu
/ freight rates ~ that when the com
mission besins the rehearing it viii
have substantially before u applica-
| lions for Increased freight rates FROM
| the Atlantic 60 the Pacihc.
The eastern railroads asked for "A
| rc-openlng not upon the showing
they made at the hearings prior TO
the decision. but upon conditions
which the managers say have become
apparent aace The showing OF toe
roads for June. which WAS not avail
able when the case was before the
commission last Time and the oxigen-
gies which have been thrust upon
1 them by the European war. with the
attendent difficulties of getting new
capital and 'hp falling on in export
tranc were cited as the principal
reasons VIII, the ease should DE re-
opened
shippers organizations which pre-
Niously fought the Increases. have
sNen notice that they Will oppose
new increases as they did before
The increases the railroads ash are
Identical with those which were de-
MED. Although described as per
cent advances. the commissions re-
cent decision declared some OF them
ranged as high as 80 per cent The
principal heavy commodities west ol
Pittsburgh. Buffalo ana Charleston,
such az cuai and coNe. which consti'
! iutc more than half of the to.al
tramc OF thu railroads, VIII be ct
fccted.
{ All class and commodity rates east
for which the commission denied In
creases entirely. viii be- affected -
the new case.
Text oT tiic order.
, Tho formal order uf the commits
, sion follows:
Upon consideration of a petition
by respondents for modification 0f or
dcrs heretofore entered In the aDov'
! entitled cases, and good cause appear
p ing therefor;
~ b. ordered that further hear
. mss IA said eases DE, and are hereb'
4 | eranted. said hearings 90 be Unite,
b 90 presentation of acts disclosed an'
. oecHrrences orisinatlng subsequently,
Ito tbs date upon which the record