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Show UNJUST RAILWAY KATES. It -was not presumed that an objection would be raised by a merchant or firm doing business in Salt Lake, to the action of the chamber of commerce of this city in asking an Immediate hearing before the interstate commerce committee with regard to the injustice in-justice of railway rates charged upon freight to this 2c'ty, by a combination of railroads centering at, this point On the contrary, every man in active business who, had the prosperity of the city at heart, and that would include his own, unless there were special and personal reasons to prevent, it was believed, would agree with the officers of the chamber of commerce, that their application was opportune and that a hearing should be had without delay. The telegraphic correspondence between the chairman of said commission, and the secretary of the chamber of commerce, to be found in this issue of The Times, will undeceive many, who will second Mr. Seaiis in the emphatic expression of his sui ,,rise at the request of the petitioners for the Ions delay of such a hearing and ask for reasons therefor. In the meantime the commission will probably hear from many who for years have suffered from these unjust and dis- criminating rates, so glanugly wrong that not even the roads themselves have attempted attempt-ed to excuse them only on the robber plea "that might makes riarht." |