The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-29
FREIGHT
 RATES FOR FISH
 ARE CONTINUED

Instant action by the commercial clubs. railroad officials and salmon packers of Seattle and Portland We'd nesday saved the new rates for Northwestern fish shippers. An or der was made on that day by the interstate commerce commission re- scindlng @ reduction of rates from 70 to 60 cents on salmon and from S5 to 62ib cents on canned goods. Af ter urgent appeals had been wired to Washington the commission yester- day vacated its order of Wednesday and the reduction will SO into effect Saturday July 24.
 In addition to that comes the good news that the Transcontinental Freight Bureau. of Chicago made up of the trunk lines running into Chi caeo. has asked permission of the in- terstate commerce commission to make the new reduced freight rate on fish and canned goods effective to all points west of Chicago to the Att lantic coast. Prominent packers and transportation men of Seattle are op- timistic over the matter and predic- tions that permission will be soon given to publish the new through rate are freely given.
 Mississippi Grocers Object
 The original order of reduction of the rate on salmon and canned goods was to have become effective We'd nesday morning, July 21 The reduc- ton, which was from all coast points to Chicago, was extended to Alabama and Tennessee but did not apply to Mississippi A recent meet ing of the Wholesale Grocers' Asso. citation at Jackson Miss, in its con. sideration of the matter, complained to the interstate commerce commis. sion. It was charged that the pro posed rates would be discrimatory against Mississippi The commission considered the objection just and suspended all the rates until Novem, Der i5
 Seattle packers and railway offic ials considered the action of the in, terstote comfmerce commission un. just and drastic. Many carloads oi salmon were being loaded for ship ment eastward when the sudden or der of the commission came. Peti tions were then sent to Washington urging that the commission establish on short notice reduced rate to Mississippi similar to that granted to Alabama and Tennessee, and thus not delay the operation of the whole or der
 Modification Made
 Taking notice of the appeals from the Pacific Coast. the interstate com merce commission. while not grant ing all the wants of Seattle and Port land packers, ordered the new rate operative to Chicago and all points to the westward. Shippers are now safe in offering salmon for ship ment to Chicago and points west of there at the reduced rate.
 "There is no question that the op eration of the extended new rate is desirable to both the railroads and salmon iobbers of the district" said J. J. German, of the cannery firm of German & Co., While an the com panies have been selling for some time on the basis of the new rate, ii would have inconyenienced some oi them in their deliveries if the time for the new rate to go into effect had been continued on into November The new rate as to points east oi Chicago would make 1t possible tc ship salmon by rail into territory that heretofore has been reached only by water, with an expensive haul from the Atlantic seaboard if the destina tion were inland. The commission probably will grant the petition oi the railroads to make the rate opera tive soon to the whole United Stotes' -(Seattle Postlntelligencer.)