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Show THE ROM TRIAL The Interstate Commission Begins Its lormal Investigation Upon Local Complaints. THE LONG AND SHORT HAUL. Rates and Their Reference to Intermediate and Competitive Points East and Wes General Vea.y of the interstate coin-mission, coin-mission, who was to have inaugurated the inquisitions on local complaints lodged by Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Mercan-tile Inslituto against the Union Pacific railway, and others, at 11 o'clock evidently evi-dently got side tracked at some portion of tho route between the hotel and the chamber of tho real estate exchange that had, for the time being, been consecrated con-secrated as a shrine to the blind goddess. god-dess. Eleven o'clock came, and the hands glided by in the presence of an anxious concourse who had assembled. Hon. V. K. Kelly, assistant general solicitor of tho Union i'acilic, with headquarters head-quarters at Omaha, was present, accompanied ac-companied by his seereUry, Mr. W . Whittaker, "as was also Mr. J. E. Munroe, assistant general traffic manager, and his secretary, Mr. Cadogan both of Omaha. The hour hand was trying to brace up against the equatorial post when the commissioner made his appearance, Secretary Montgomery surrendering his chair behind the big desk and leaving leav-ing his mantle for more distinguished shoulders. , The particular case to which the attention of tho commission had been called was that in which tho potentialities of the Co-op had lodged complaint reciting discriminations between be-tween New York and San Francisco as against tho commercial welfare of Salt Lake City. As an example, it was specified spec-ified in complaint that a lower rate was g:ven for the haul from the Atlantic seaboard sea-board to the shores of the Pacific than from the former to Salt Lake. It was simply a complaint based on tho "long and short" of tho inler-stato bill with which clause the constant reader is doubtless familiar. Tim commissioner explained that there were two cases to be disposed of at this time in which Zion's co-operative mercantile institute was complainant and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe the Denver & Rio Grande aud Union I'acilic were the respondents in the one case, and Oregon Short Line, the Union Pacilic and the Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee & St. Paul on the other. Messrs. F. S. ltiehards aud James F. Movie appeared as counsel for the complainants. com-plainants. Judge Kelley gave notice that it would bo impossible for the Union Un-ion I'acilic to produce all of its evidence at this point. Mr. Richards for the complainant stated that while they had collected all evidence and were ready to proceed pro-ceed with the substantiation of their charges he preferred; inasmuch as the hour for luncheon had arrived, to begin the introduction of testimony after tho herculean tasks of the table had been disposed of. The propriety of this suggestion making mak-ing ilself apparent, a recess was ordered until two o'clock. In the meantime General Veazey gave his attention to tho transportation bureau of tho chamber of commerce who were informed of his readiness to proceed at once with their case. The chairman of tho bureau however stated that they preferred to await the disposal of the main case as they desired to -proceed in a general rather than specilic way. They desired to advise the commissioner of tho magnitude and importance of this young city that iu future the commission might understand under-stand tho situation and the merits of complaints. |