Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-01-24
hing and Securing Sigma
[res to Petitions Against
|1nterests of Arkansas.
Ivy TAKE THE BAIT
p,u,f Travelling Men Discover
!, - Numerous Merchants Signed
r.a,r "Own Death Warrants"
Unwittingly.

hat Memphis Joppeis anu "hoie
rs through their travelling sales
IN Arkansas, are flooding Arkan-
retailers with petitions, to be
I'D and forwarded to the interstate
rmerce commission, was the alarm
nded yesterday by travelling sales
for local houses, who stated that
- petitions are being used by
[nnhis in the effort to have the in
tote commerce commission decide
ayor of Memphis in the petition to
w Memphis to ship goods into Ar
cas- under state freight rates.
he petition for the privilege of
bping under Arkansas rates which
I filed by Memphis some months
is still pending before the inter-
Z commerce commission, the hear
in the matter having not yet been
hpleted. It will be taken up again
4 little Rock within the next few
4 and then concluded at emphis.
bine Bluff travelling men learned
|terday at a number of places that
petitions are being circulated in
|narts of Eastern Arkansas by rep
6ntatives of Memphis wholesale and
bing houses, and that the petitions
being numerously signed by retail
merchants, who do not investigate
sely into the matter before affixing
|r signatures. At Stuttgart yester-
one such petition, which had been
herously signed, was burned when
merchants learned the nature of
petition.
lii the Memphis petition now pend
before the interstate commerce
mission is granted, it will force
ct existence practically so per
/ Of the jobbers and wholesalers in
kansas,' said one of the local job
B yesterday. eve are making a
It for our very existence before the
srstate commerce commission, and
as an indication of what we are
against, we now find that for two
X or more past the retailers in
territory have been signing these
ers, under a misconception or in
olute ignorance of the facts.
Every Pine Bluff. wholesale, house
every Pine Bluff jobber ought to
E steps at once to get in touch with
customers in all this section of the
te, and all Arkansas wholesalers
jobbers should take the same
on, that the retailers may be adj
d Of what the Memphis people are
,g, and may be enlisted in our be-
|. As it is, most of these retailers
standing with us in our fight, but
signing these petitions without
wing really what their nature is.
) ought to be done at once, before
additional signatures are received
hese petitions"
Traffic Bureau Meeting.
LENDERS of the Pine Bluff traffic
eau held meeting yesterday
rnoon, at which was discussed
pending Memphis freight rate
ltion before the interstate COM
&c commission, the proposition to
lpromise with the Iron Mountain
Cotton Belt in the matter OF the
ment of refunds due shippers and
7elers, an dthe hearing to be held
coming week by the state rail-
commission on the matter of the
posed new tariff of state freight
y. The meeting resulted in
tner expression Of determination
the part of the traffic bureau to
main the stand already adopted
the organization, and Commits
Ter Taylor was given all the au-
Flty necessary to act ON behalf OF
local BODY in these matters.