Show LEASED WIRES wiPEs j IN J j jI I 1 Interstate Commerce Comm Commis Commission i 1 sion sian Looking Up Telegraph Service of Packers Omaha Neb Feb 16 The interstate int j fi j commerce commission Is to Investigate the th relationship between bet en the Western J Union Telegraph and Postal Telegraph companies on one side and the packing I houses grain firms and other houses throughout the country countr which I have hae heretofore had special telegraph I wires and special operators furnished burnished them This morning all through wires j jo of o this description were discontinued here and only pony wires res running from these offices into the main ln tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph offices were left The operators manning those wires from irom the packing packinghouse packinghouse 1 house ends are now employed by the I packing houses and not by the Hele tele telegraph graph companies Little Fish at a Disadvantage i iThe The interstate commerce cOn commission is js said to have taken the position that I furnishing the large customers of the telegraph companies with sIth facilities f de denied d I med nied the smaller customers was wi In fact a discrimination and an investigation is demanded In the packing houses at South Oma Omaha ha every through wire which was wag not actually leased le ed to the packing packinghouses packinghouses houses bouses was pulled out ont of communication tion and the packing houses forced forc d to have their telegrams relayed rela ed at the main offices E B A Cudahy head of the Cudahy Packing P company said The only ony effect of the new order is that we will be compelled to lease our ourI wires ire Instead of sending tele telegrams telegrams telegrams grams at commercial rates over wires I furnished by the telegraph companies AH Alt the packers will wll probably lease new I wires today and have full use of tl em The operators will he be packing house I instead of telegraph em |