Show RAilROAD MEN uhl LIET ACTION AHEAD OF SENATE Systems in the East and Mid Middle Middle Middie dle die West File Pile With Inter InterI tate Commerce Commission Tariffs of Increased Rates ALL OTHERS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW THE LEAD I I II Attorney General Wickersham I IHas Has Not Hot Indicated What His Future Course in Behalf of I the Government Will Be I CONFERENCE N CHICAGO V 7 June a Vv A eil Cd d by I the Ibe pro v T under ul the not oW by b which n 1 oC of the proposed Increase of or freight mt in la il e territory of or 0 the Ihl i lw river rh r nn st impended d l b r Injunction rond In the ent nn l middle et ct flied filed cl with the Interstate In commerce mm ree of Increased mini ml de dir decline cline to tn Indicate course he will nut In la behalf of er if the government and the ende on the Ike th verse verge to in mi of or the rate bill hsI nud nd finally postponed po until tomorrow Tonight practically every en railroad p r tit tn in the O north horth Atlantic to the rI i Me tt ha has has filed Md d with the Interstate r nm rc commission the UM legal Je aJ noti f i tinn t io of pro os d in com coin t 1 d I ty rate rat The range f mm 1 J to SI 11 nor cent c The day daJ started t with the filing of s of I by the New York ork the th W Wt ot t Shore Mitor and the Dole Deia rr Then Thee t official proposal from freia 11 the Ute reads J the territory from froin Chicago S 11 d 1 Milwaukee to ned art Ohio 0 r v c pot points e la ia J aili ought ht In III During Daring the tho afternoon tn IR IRd d tariffs trow no the tho u Atlantic sea md Hd fl V d to Chicago St Paul and aa later rn points wore were filed tho tM th revised r flied filed by t roads rosio west t of UM Ute Mississippi Misi pL the ther r red ased eed tariffs from the th central f i right I ht territory were wr mod filed modI If I concert on rt On the tho u oUter other hand band tho th thI f IK I tern t em r roads road r filed their revised nI tariffs uan t C From Prom 0 G to 31 n 1 Per Cent Tho Tb increases by bJ the tM Tall rail TallY t Y i l in the middle west rang from to ir t n 31 21 I per oNt Those onoe from the tho sea soa soai i i to the tho wt wc vary from frota I s to te M H Mp p lr r rent nt Tho MI Daue Ohio m In bar Inon rne r on rates mate rat from Chicane Chicago to the ai oard average aeTa about 10 11 1 p per r cent The Th time tim tl set t for fot th the to tv ton go p nl n I effect on CO the tera roads road was ws w July lul i On OR the tho rood roads In la the tho thoi i H tie wet west July 1 I was WA tile the date fixed tr re th tb revised tariffs began to tot toI toIto t ir I f Ito Into I ft 0 the th t h offices ottle of or the tho cdon orney r was wall ro re Divine telegrams from we Horn ship 11 r y m rw asking him to take action atio to have baye bayet t I Ion Issued Qed by b the federal rt In Missouri ext to other r rn i especially wool H was w mad made that It now was w t too late la fO It Tt was w explained that th the In I th the bill bin such uch rates at tp MI 5 had been bc en a called to Its 18 atten atton aU t ti tn n and aad that the t e falter fallar fall uc of f other rates rat mst ratI I ii e d ma vot t be laid at the ther r of Or the tho shipper As to the th of or tIN the government i ar regard rei to th tile the rail railroads in la tINt the east easta a 21 d middle west w the tINt attorney general Continued on un l te Ten I RAILROAD MEN GET ACTION IN SEN SENATE JE Continued d From Page Ine One ODe was not ready to talk Immediate ac action a atlon action tion is III not necessary Inasmuch tt aa s the rates rate are not to go So into effect oUtlet for tr a month menU Mr Wickersham said that thet no corn com complaints plaints had as all yet been received by b bhim bhim him from shippers In the tho cast or middle west Furthermore ho he pointed out that conditions under which the roads in inthe Inthe inthe the east and middle west had filed flied their eases ease S might be he entirely different from frem those governing the action a lion of oC tho the West Western Western ern era Traffic association asso There was as a fooling feeling among members of oC the commission that more t ulUa will be flied filed within the next few Cew days day making the increase general throughout the country on shipments both ways wa waIt It Is relieved that because e of or the probable early Jarl pas passage age of oC the adminis administration railroad bill the roads will lose IMe loseno loseno no time In ruins filing other advanced tar tariff itt iff The Te Mil bitt in Its present form term gives the Interstate commerce commission the Ue power to investigate the reasonableness of oC proposed prep Increases In rates rato and to suspend them as all long as ae ten to months month Unless the railroads had put their new rates ratos Into Rte by the time the bill hili becomes a law the interstate com corn commerce commeree meree merce commission might suspend their operation |