Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-12-24
Freight RATES
SATISFACTORY
FOR ARKANSAS
Intervention Shows Intra-
state Tariff Suits State
Conditions.
PETITION SHOWS
MEMPHIS SELFISH
Possessing Lower Inbound Rates Than
Arkansas J0bbing Centers, Tonnes.
see Town Now Wants State Rates
fer Its Outbound Shipments.

w. NJ Taylor, commissioner for the
/ Pine Bluff traffic bureau. returned to
he city yesterday forenoon from
! Memphis, where he has been repre-
sorting local jobbers and wholesalers
]" the hearing before Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Edgar Watkins,
On the petition of Memphis shippers
f)r a rearrangement of railroad rates
Cut of Memphis to Arkansas points
the granting of which petition would
put Memphis on a parity with Ar
kar sas shipping points so far as rates
are concerned.
This is, to my mind. the most i'm
pcltant case that has ever been
BIZ ught before the interstate COM
merce commission, involving as it
does the conflict between interstate
and intrastate rates, with Arkansas
is the very center Of the fight" said
Ny Taylor. "The final outcome Of
this case, and the ultimate decision
en- the points involved, may easily
work a revolution in the matter of
railroad freight rates everywhere
All the testimony for the plaintiffs
has been filed with Examiner Watson.
and the defendant railroads have Of
fered some of their testimony. The
rc ilroads are expected to close their
testimony before the testimony of the
intervening Arkansas shippers is
heard. when the hearing is resumed.
No date has yet been announced for
the resumption of the hearing, but
it is believed it will tie taken up again
early in January, at Little Rock.
Memphis shippers, through the
Memphis Traffic Bureau, are the
Plaintiffs in the case, with the Rock
Island and other railroads as de-
PENDANTS. Traffic bureaus in Little
Rock, Pine Bluff. Fort Smith, and
Te xarkana, and shippers throughout
the state are intervenors, and the
position of the intervenors is clearly
stated to the commission III the inter
yCrtion filed for the intervenors by
.-r6ge Hill of Fort Smith, as attorney
the intervention being in full as fol-
lows:
"The City of Memphis ct at. VS.. The
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Rail
road company, ct al.
"Come R. P. Allen, president Ship
r;rs' Traffic Bureau, Little Rock. Ar
kansas; Scott-Mayer Commission
company, W. B. Redding. traffic
manager, Little Rock: Geo. R. Brown
secretary Little Rock Board of Trade
Little Rock; Rose-Lyon Hardware
company, Little Rock; Plunkett-jar'
cell Grocery company, Little Rock. BY
IL. r. farrell, vice-president; Gof1
WI olesale Grocery company, Mena
Arkansas. by r. Golf, president: Ar
kansas Grocery company by Thoma:
Pyles, vice president and manager
Merchants Grocery company bv II
Patterson, secretary; Business Men
League of Helena, Arkansas. by NJ
W Martin, secretary-commissioner
the Hammett Grocery company by A
W Num-, secretary and treasurer
t,e Collins-Hampton Grocery com
rsnv. by E.. D. Russell: the Arkan
s.s brokerage company, by p. d
Ensseu; Fox Brothers HardWar
company, by H. c. Fox, and Merch
ants Freight Bureau OF Little hocf
by A. r. Bragg, commissioner, am
file this, their intervening petltlol
in the above entitled proceeding an
NAV that they may be permitted u
;,1roduce testimony and be near
fn,lv herein, as we'll ais to cross-eX
anime witnesses of the plaintiff an
the defendants.
AS their basis for the interyen
+.or vour petitioners represent tina
they are engaged in business IN nj, tn
state of Arkansas, or represent bodle
of merchants and manufacturers en-
,,gaeed in business in Arkansas; tina
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