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Show AUTO RATE HEARING DATE DETERMINED Case of Utah Hide Dealers Will Also Be Heard in This City on j December 31. The -ase of the Alkire-Smith Auto-. Auto-. mobile oompany against the Atchison, Topeka it Santa Fe railroad will be heard at 10 o'clock on the morning of Decemoer 31, at Salt Lake, aceoraing to information received yesterday by the traffic, service bureau of Utah from the interstate commerce commission at Washington. The case, which was brought bv practically all the automobile automo-bile dealers of Salt Lake, is for the purpose pur-pose of endeavoring to secure a reduction reduc-tion of from io to S30 a carload in the tariff charged on automobiles from eastern points. The case brought by the Utah hide dealers, in which they seek rates not higher than from the cast to Pacific coast terminals, will be heard on the I same date. Conies of the brief or the traffic bu- j reau. prepared by S. H. Love, president; I W. S. McCarthy, vice president, and ' H. Y. Prickett, manager, and used at The recent hearing before the commerce i commission at Portland, may be ob- ' taiiitd at the offices in the Kearns i building. The brief reviews the alleged ineounv of higher freight rates to Pa-'-ific eoa.-t points than to intermouniain points and ns to show that rates to Ttah -oints shoi"td be the same, at the highest, as to cities on the Pacific ccasi. where the haul from the east is much longer. : This condition. " the brief say?, "h1!? imposed upon ail classes of people resiling in and dir.g business in Utah an ;ni;r t nroportion of the revenue of hr-fce carriers and has mr.ltpd in dis-crimiti.-itio?: that the Jaw forbids. To f'.ii ther -nl ie -t th-'-m to increased bur-Vns. bur-Vns. e-;-teciai:y a4 a time when their p trend" heaw obligation? are increa-ip.r increa-ip.r lii-oa'ijp of v-nr f-r,nditions. will , hfive the eontir.u;-d effect of depriving tbe:n of he fr.ir and canal opportunity v. hich t';e act to regnlate corri'iierce was, obviunslv de ;i:!iod to afford."' |