Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-08 | Page 20 | Reason to Expect Favorable Decision

REASON 10 EXPECT FAVDnABLE DECISION Traffic Bureau Officials Say Utah Marie Good Showing in Rate Case. Final decision in tho Salt .Lake. Spokane, Spo-kane, Reno and other rate cases affecting western shippers, and now pending be-foro be-foro the interstate commerce commission, Is expected some time In Juno by Stephen II. Love, president of tho Commercial club traffic bureau, who with Secretary W. S. McCarthy has returned home from Washington, D. C. The president and secretary, wllh S. H. Babcock of the bureau, bu-reau, have been before tho commission to present the case of the Salt Lake shippers. ship-pers. Represented at this last hearing, which occupied two weeks, wero all the principal prin-cipal Pacific coast cities. Including San Francisco. Los Angeles, Portland, fceat-tle. fceat-tle. the middle- western cities, including Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. All of the Atlantic seaport cities wero represented repre-sented nnd. Mr. Love declares, stood with the ..'acific coast cities In seeking to secure se-cure a discrimination against Salt Lako and other Interior shipping points. Several of tho big shipping interests of tho country, including the American Tin Can company, tho American S,heet Tin Plate company and the United Stales Steel corporation, also had representatives representa-tives present. At tho time of tho "long and short haul," rate decision of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission, given last ..Tune, the claim was. made by the railroads that they would lose a large sum by the change of rates to interior points, but Mr. Love says that an cstlmale made by talting four representative months shows that the loss to the roads and tho gain to the Utah shippers would be about 51.220.000 per annum. At the hearing Just closed the western cities set up the plea of water competition competi-tion to Justify the discrimination they asked, but it was shown by Mr. Babcock and the attorney for the commission that tho railroads themselves virtually dictated dic-tated and regulated i:ie water rates. Sail Lake and other Interior shippers made a good showing and Mr. Love is confident of a favorahl edeclslon.