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Show RITE BILL IETI OPPOSITION II EAST Opponents of Poindexter Measure Say Western Districts Are Favored. The U. S. senate bill No. 360, Introduced by Senator Poindexter of Washington, and affecting: the long and short haul freight rates, passed the senate yesterday, yester-day, according to telegraphic information received in the office of A. C. Ree3, secretary sec-retary of the Utah Associated Industries. Tho bill has been referred to the house, and members of the Utah association j have wired to Congressmen Mays and Welling urging them to support the measure mea-sure and uso their influence to secure its passage. Eastern manufacturers are fighting the bill to the last ditch, according to Mr. Rees, lodging arguments against it to the effect that it discriminates against the east in favor of the non-industrial west. The amendment to the bill breaks down a number of the old freight-rate practices prac-tices and places rates on a mileage basis. Senator Poindexter's bill provides for drastic changes in the long and short haul clause of the interstate commerce act, according to Mr. Rees. (Jder the old law, which has been in force for a long time, the same freight rates wore charged whether goods were shipped from Chicago, Kansas City or Salt Lake to the coast, without any consideration being be-ing pi ven to the different topographical conditions existing or tho distance involved. in-volved. Mr. Rene said tho opponents of the new biil claimed it was decidedly a discrimination In favor of the thinly populated popu-lated and non-industrial districts of the ' west. t Mr. Rees has gone on record urging j the business men of Salt Lake and Utah to telegraph Congressmen Mays and IVell- ' lng In an effort to secure the passage of the new biil now before the houte of representatives. |