Show ALARMED OVER A S R NT RULING CHICAGO July 17 The Tho Tho business s in interests In- In ts pf Japan are thoroughly alarmed d over o tho prospect of or western railroads being compelled to go out of ot the tho Asiatic export and Import trade on account of ot a recent decision of the Interstate commerce commission K Matsubara 1 the new Japanese consul con con- sill sul at Chicago o. o received a cablegram from the tho Japan Trades association yesterday asking him to see CC If something could not be bo done to prevent such a catastrophe cata Tho The consul appealed to the tho Chicago AssocIation Association Association As As- of or Commerce and as a n result ho he and II C C. Barlow mAna managing director c- c tor of or tho the association held heM a long conference conference con con- ference yesterday esterday Mr Barlow assured the consul general that ho and tho the as association as- as sedation would do all an they could to tr try to Induce the western roads not to abandon abandon aban aban- don on the tho oriental and Asiatic trade and andIs ands Is s no now at work to that end Tho The Japan Trades s association with headquarters In Tokio Is the most powerful powerful power power- ful trade organization of the empire and its influence and membership I Is national It appears that tho the commission some sonic sometime sometime time ago ruled that th the western roads must publish tho the Inland proportions of or orth th their lr export rat rates s. s Tho railroads claims the they cannot do this and compete with the Suez Sue route where the rates change with an hours hour's notice B By l keeping the inland proportions se secret so- so crot cret the railroads have been able ablo to do doa a fair share sharo of this business and the revenue it brings them probably aggregates aggregates gates itc annually |