Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-13 | Page 12 | Kansas City's Plea Made in Shipping Case

KANSAS CITY'S j PLEA MADE III ! SHIPPING CASE j Equality With Far Western Markata. In SaU-ln-i Transit Atktd j ailCAGO, Feb. lJ The plea l 1 Kansas City for equal opportunity with markets farther west in the matter mat-ter of livestock sale In transit privileges privi-leges was presented before an intercut inter-cut commerce commission hearing 1 Which began bare today. 1 The bearing, continued at the Sherman hotel by IntersUU Com-! Com-! merce Commissioner Exsminer William Wil-liam A. Disque, la a continustion of hearings at Denver and Excelsior Springs, Ma The Kansas City livestock market mar-ket is as well equipped as any in the west to handle shipments under the Irani It sales provision.'' declared C. B. Heinemann, traffic manager of the Kansas City Livestock company. "Hence Kansas City and the other Missouri river markets should be allowed al-lowed parity in such ehlpmenU with Denver and Ogden, Uuh." Heinemann referred to action of the IntersUU commerce commission on January 15, 1931, when it abolished abol-ished the right of special rates for .celling livestock while in transit at ail markets west on the Mississippi fiver except Denver and Ogden. Spokesmen for the Missouri river 1 and other western markets contend that this action worked a hardship on them and gave a special advan-Ur advan-Ur to the two favored markets. Today' hearing began with a re-sumption re-sumption of testimony by J. O. Phelps of the Ogden Stockyards com- Kny, who had begun his recital at nver. He added to his testimony urging extension of sale in transit ; privilege to the Missouri river mar-I mar-I kets rather than their abolishment 1 at the Rocky mounuin west points. - Heinemann was emphatic In his j eonUntion that undue hardship is I worked against the Kansas City yards by the present rat situation, i "In all fairness, we must have par-; par-; Ity if the best interests of stockmen, ! dealers and the railroads In the great West are served." he eakL ! Wsiting to testify waa H. R. Parks. , traffic manager of the Union Stock-! Stock-! yards company, Chicago. He was prepared to Br rue that because Chi-caio Chi-caio is the largest livestock market and virtually asublishes pricea at the ether yards. It should have parity par-ity with the centers farther west as regard In transit sales.