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Show MISSOTJBI BATE CASE I NOW BEFORE COURT . KANSAS CITT. Dec. 22 The state to-oay to-oay begun, the Introduction of evidence to support Its side in the Missouri rate case. In which the state seeks to prove that the 2-cent faro and maximum freight laws of Missouri are not. confiscatory. A. P. Taliaferro, who Is connected with a Now York firm of expert accountants, and who has been In charge of tho state's Investigations Into the earnings and expenses ex-penses of various railroads, declared In alrect opposition to tho long array ? witnesses Introduced by the defendants, that the relative cost to the railway coni-l coni-l pany's per passenger mile was less for state thnn for Interstate traffic. Mr. Tallafiu-ro based his conclusion on the fact that most of th interstate traf-IIcvnR traf-IIcvnR hanIled on sleeping cars, which did not carry as large a number of passengers pas-sengers as tho ordinary coaches in which state passengers rode. Jt was further staied that practically all of the advertising adver-tising expenses and most of the traffic expense should br charged to the cost of obtaining and carrying Interstate passengers passen-gers and competitive, or long-haul business. |