Show PERKINS r T R r TO SETTLE Q JIM tr t 1 IF 1 fREIGHT I r RATES AnS 1 Es CHICAGO Juno Tuno 18 The 18 The financial interests in the time cast have lu taken a an nn n active hand in tit the rho attempt being made mado to bote the problem of freight ht rule s and railroad revenues Thua Thu far th tho 0 financiers have been directing their r attention to trying to induce of manufacturing interests t to o accept increases in freight ht rat rates s Yesterday George o V. W. Perkins of J J. J Pierpont Morgan nn i S Co concluded n days' days conference between milro railroad t d men man and ant officials of the packing hou house o companies during which he tried to ac acas net t as mediator Failing to get et the th packing house interests interests in to agree to increases of almost 2 25 per cent in in the rates rater from Chi Chicago n o oto to the he hc seaboard Mr Air Perkins ha has returned returned re turned to New ew York to try tn to pet get ct th the tho railroad presidents to agree o to impose HU au increase of on only I 5 j cents per hundred hun hun- tun- tun dred pounds According to the tho representatives es cs of tho the various tacking packing in firms tho proposition put totem to them hy hr tho the railroad men comprehended tho the transfer of from tho the net profit sMa of oC tho the combined packing house bouso ledger to tho net revenue lido aide of tho the combined eastern railroad ledger leder As a matter of compromise tho the packing pack leg ing house interests offered to consent to an nn increase which would cost them more moro than thun annually but to this tho railroads would not agree Now v Mr Perkins hopes to get et tho the railroads to listen to a n compromise compromiso measure and then to get Jet tho packing house interests to agree to a 6 little larger conce concession than was contemplated contemplated plated in their Chi Chicago isto offer The Tho proceeding is unique in railroad history and aDd is causing amazement among amou the tho ranks of tho the shippers |