| Show AS TO TRANSPORTATION Industrial Commission Makes Preliminary Pre-liminary Report to Congress Washington May 17The Industrial commission today made 0 preliminary report to Congress on the subject of transportation The commission slates tmnsportalon that owing to the incompleteness of I its inquiry the commission Is not prepared pre-pared at present to make recommendations recommenda-tions to Congress or to the State Legislatures Leg-islatures but contemplates the making of such recommendations hereafter On the question of discriminations between be-tween individuals the report says the general concensus of opinion among witnesses is that the railways still make them and perhaps to as great an extent as ever before They also say that the evidence Is clear that the great terminal elevators in Chicago and to a leas extent in other grain markets are owned by comparatively com-paratively few persons that the owners of the public elevators also cannot get private elevators that they themselves buy a large proportion of the grain which goes Into the public elevators an that the business of handling grain on commission has been very greatly reduced by this practice I also is claimed that those men own most of the country elevators The commission concludes on this point In view of the quite general acknowledgment ac-knowledgment among railway men that discrimination in favor of large shippers is I still conspicuous there seems to be a considerable probability that the claim that those large elevators elevat-ors receive favors from the railroads one way or another has some basis On the question of grain rates and flour shipments it Is stated that the evidence evi-dence seems conclusive that the effect of discrimination has already been disastrous dis-astrous to our milling interest and that probably even the difference in rates reduced aa already shown it will af wi continue con-tinue to be Injurious Other questions discussed l are Discrimination Dis-crimination between places pooling freight classification railway consol dallon and capitalization Government ownership taxes wages labor organization organ-ization etc The conclusion Is reached with reference to the powers of the Interstate In-terstate Commerce commission that I they are more limited than was intend I ed by the framers of the interstate commerce law I |
