Show RULE RUlf E VIOLAT VIOLATED BY RAilROADS Spokane Makes a Point at the I Commerce Commission I Hearin Hearing I I II Spokane Wash ash Oct 1 The rate I direct to Spokane from eastern points I certainly ought not to be greater than the combination rate to the coast plus pius the rate from there to the east said ald I Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty at the Spokane rate hearing today The commission has already announced a rule which prohibits mak making makIng making ing such charges It should be the policy of the railroads to ta encourage e direct shipments In their own inter interests interests ests eats The remark was called forth orth by b tes tea testimony of J M 11 Fitzgerald a local shipper showing that until recently Spokane and coast points had a com corn common common cornmon mon rate on steel bars from Pittsburg of 17 per hundredweight The rail rall railroad road t reduced that rate to the coast without making a corresponding re reduction reduction reduction to Spokane Mr Fitzgerald shoed hat a car of steel was shipped Sept 26 on which the freight charge was more than It would have been had he shipped the car to Seattle and then ordered it shipped back to Spokane At session the hearing pro progressed greased gressed through the detailed list of items In the tariff a total of items or classifications having been covered In the three days das the hearing has been in progress prepress Attorney Stevens representing Spokane Spokane Spokane kane repeatedly made a point of the demand by b the Spokane people that they the be granted blanket rates from points east of Chicago on all Items on which blanket rates to the coast are arc I made That Is a point on which the whole commission will probably pass pas said Mr Prouty prout and you OU should cover coer It ItIn itin In your our arguments |