Show RAilROADS I WORKING OUT RA RATE IE PROBLEM Arranging Tariff to Harmonize Harmonize Har Har- monize With Long and 0 Short Haul Clause HAY AY INVOLVE COAST TO COAST INCREASE This in Order to Keep Intermediate In Point Rates Lower Lo CHICAGO Nov Nor 28 Transcontinental nent l railroad officials in sessi session n in to Chicago are planning an advance in freight r rates tes between Chicago Now New NewYork York Boston and aud other eastern point and the Pacific coast The adv advance co contemplates contemplates contemplates con con- templates increases amounting to 25 26 and 33 jJ per p-or r cent according to a news article published boo bere today J A pJ plan m is contemplated which will increase in in- crease the rato rati between Chicago anc and the Ind P c coast hut but also will cut down material materi hl the t illta e over Chiea Chicago which New e York and Atlantic seaboard shippers rs Lave havo in the past Th The rates ratos from Chicago o Chicagon and n 1 New v Y York Tk to tc the coast heretofore have been the same Under the proposed 5 schedule not yet indorsed by the interstate commerce commission the rate from Chicago o to tz Pacific is raised 50 cents for pounds but New Now York has bas hasl 1 added to the tar taro iff if its shippers no now rf pa pay pa- paon on frei freight ht from frou there to Pacific coast points The transcontinental lines line are ve re now BOW iz in in conference over their proposed through h schedule increases In Jn their effort they I seek shelter under the amendment t to the lon loner and short haul clause of tin interstate te commerce law Jaw Feb Jao mary 17 i. i The railroads seek this increase as ar an In alternative Th They do 10 j they say-they not wan wanto wani- wani to be forced by the government to re r lace deice rates to intermediate point in in the west which in some somo casos cases ar am higher than through rate rates to coast t. t Result Resu o of ot Spokane Case Th ir- ir In this this' direction dir 1 the thi the roads claim is justified by the action 9 of r t the I t g ti h c rate case where th thc i lI t iJ tt s east cast eastern rn rn point oi t le d the Hie l tb n st t pl plus tho tIle local local fate rat rom the tIit toaSt a i bic I to Spokane The inter interstate tato I commission reduced duce 1 the through rate tn to Spokane first to an equality quality with that tha to coast points and later to 10 cents less les than ban that to the coast coast- The railroads will ask the thc commerce commission to maintain the thi existing rates Failing that they win will throw their whole cn energy into an effort for an increase of existing rates to the Pacific coast 25 or even Oven 33 3 1 per cent A tentative schedule of rates now un un- un del mr cons inn firl i W first class rate from New New- NewYork York to Pa Pacific coa coast t cities from 3 3 to 4 4 per 10 pounds founds with corresponding increases O on the tho lower of the five fiyo numbered and v vo lettered classes The 1 e rates to intermediate ate points are aro to be graded between these fi figures On this basis sis the first class rato rate from Chicago to tJI the Pacific coat coast would b be approximately instead of 3 a ag at present The principal railroad systems stema in involved in- in in the plan for readjustment o of the tho western rates are the Harriman lines including t the e Union Pacific an and the Southern Pacific the Hil Hill lines Jines ibe Great Northern aid Northern P Pacific the Gould lines including the Western Wester Pacific and the Denver cr Rio Grande t the e U hison Topeka Teneka Santa Fe and the Chicago o. o Milwaukee lil aukee ot St t. t Paul l aul al aI ai- ai thou though h nearly e every elY railroad in th the United States more mor or le leas s Will bo be affected What Stubbs Says We Ve simply are arc working on a plan plan to present to the commission a tariff that will not with the l monts to the tIlO long lone and short haul clause clans in Jr the iho fourth section of the tho interstate 3 net act aid ItE T J. 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C Stubbs traffic traffic fic fie of the Harriman riman lines ye e es tenIa Nothing has beet been decided upon and tipon and any r thus far considered merely are arc tentative A A first lass class scale has bas bee been been discussed ea an and also alfO a cass a 1 l scale alc said an another another an- an another other traffic official There f There is nothing tan tangible ihle yet to pr present sent The roads ar are ara consi considering two general plans One is i to char charge o hj higher rates to points a as at present and tho tim i ito is to establish a n uniform graded scale caJe fo for ra 5 on nn t he sion r rates rates' tc wh which h they vr prescribed g ribo c a as reasonable reasonable reason reason- e S J able le tr t the tho points Tak- Tak Taking Taking Tak- Tak ing tn as lS reasonable for Spokane iff Salt Lake Ci City the rate to t the Mast coast would bo be somewhat what higher of Cu e. e and New Now YorK would take tale a R hi h r ra o ae than thau Chica Chicago o although the ir een e would J e e somewhat less than rhan thA th local Joen rate of 75 cents from New Now York to Cb- Cb Cl- Cl i c cago t |