Show protest protest- R o R Freight o Increases tAU BAH UP IN ARMS AGAINST PROPOSED CHANGES CHANCES Service Bureau Receives Word Rates on onI I HE HEK K Wool Soon to Be Higher tH of Utah and the Vestern Western states are up in arms arm The Bombshell which has caused the greatest alarm and awakened rm m-rm storm of protest was the receipt of news by H. H W. W ofee of ee Service Bureau of Utah that the railroad administration to raise the the rates rates on wool from Oregon and intermediate link lints to the Atlantic seaboard The docket has already been Ved ived for Oregon It is also understood that the administration to raise the rates from Utah and Idaho to the Atlantic I aboard b ard D Dr W. W S. S McClure of the National association today wired I ij interstate commerce commission Loth both the hou house houie e and senate that legislation be speedily I acted prohibiting the United States I administration from putting toj effect an any advance in rates or oranges oranges oranges anges in rules and regulations riding the time when hen the railroads e to private ownership or ore orel e el question definitely disposed of Through the traffic service bureau have ve filed a protest protes with the estern traffic committee of Portland I st this proposed increase int in intes t tens tes S said Dr McClure today The present rate on pounds of ol from l. l Umatilla mati lla Ore to the At- At at seaboard is 4 and it is to raise Taise the rater rate to I At-I 50 h her r proposed raises are in m m m n Hearing on the matter is to beld be Id ld August 6 in Portland I LIt is an outrage that the railroad ministration should permit the I men to ance ad almost every I It t to tin in the countr country in view of the t within a year or less the theil il oads Avill be returned to their said Dr McClure My idea that there is is a deliberate conspiracy Existence to advance every rate to toi i highest pos possible limit while the are under government owner- owner ij 1 J so that when they are returned private ownership they will enjoy of the exorbitant rates committed a colossal m ender inder er when it took away from the commerce commission Juris- Juris ir n over rates and turned it over of the United States e United States railroad adminis- adminis tt on has simply allowed the rail- rail fd id dJ people to change rules regula- regula ns ns and rates that the public has ten years to secure Every point gained by the National association in the last l years toward bettering the cons con's con- con ions s 's under which the livestock are lP ipp Th d l has been lost since the gov- gov took over o the railroads W olmen of Utah have had much contend with through the drouth d n many Western Vestern states condi- condi J msg have been much worse The in many places have been mp to ship their flocks for of miles in order to gain gam storage st rage If an increase in wool t tes s is Is put into effect they declare at not only will will their profits dis- dis pe pear r but they will endure losses t r |