| Show I GRAIN GRAIN SHIPPERS GAIN A CONCESSION I CHICAGO Nov 25 The lar large e grain I II shipping interests interest of m kf tho the Chicago board hoard of trade as well as of those O in many I II I I large lar o cities a temporary concession concession concession con con- cession yesterday The They have pr protested I I vigorously ly against tho order of the in- in in-I in n commerce commission prohibiting prohibit prohibit- I jug into tho the railroads from making further I I aiu elevation eleva eiva- payments of the cu customary grain tion Uon allowance at ref ua oae quarter one of a 1 cut cuta a bushel It has bas been renounced no that the commission com corn mission ion ha had the effective o date of the order until July Tuly I 1 1009 Tho rho order was at the request of the Chicago o lin interests who ask asked cd I to tb remain in in that the case caso he bo t o allowed abeyance until tho the legality t of tho commissions commission's corn com missions mission's position can be pa passed sed upon i iby by tho the courts on the tho application for an i injunction to bo be tiled filed by b tho board of trado trade o of Kansas City Omaha and other Missouri river cities They claimed that them to lose it was wa unjust to require the allowances s until the courts court had bad been given iriven an opportunity to consider tho matter w I Tho The protest to tho the commission commission was I si signed ned by nineteen eD IH prominent Chicago grain elevator ator companies who claimed that the service son performed by hy them of ot weighing trans transferring clipping anti and grading th the grain ain raiu is a reasonable one for fOT which they are arc entitled to remuneration utica by means of the allowance It is I also ulso claimed that to eliminate it after it has been in effect ct for twenty live years and extensive c investments iu have o been made for elevation facilities with th the expectation c of receiving the tho allowances allowances allowances allow allow- ances amounts to nothing less than an IU increase in rates Tho order of tho commission com corn mission declaring tho the allowance a discrimination discrimination dis lis crimination against against- grain ain companies who have e no elevators was oriA originally applied ap- ap applied ap plied only to the tho Missouri J. river ri c cities tic but on October Cr 26 G was t extended to apply ap ap- ply to all railroads an and localities after Sly January January 1 |
