| Show I MARKET PRIDES NOT EREO i I Railway Companies Figure Upon Their OWl Exchequers Only LONG HAUL IS LE lALONE tint ut In or Freight iii II Short Sh rt 1111 nil Lola Lol Slate no lo The hearing bearing before the Interstate commerce commission called on no ac account count ot of complaints made by shippers against the proposed new ot of freIght by railroads operating un under tier der the tho was tS re ra resumed too today nt at Washington D C CD D By agreement Mr r Frank Marriott general manager of the Erie and a member of te the committee W went I on the hi Witness ess stand stunt to testify as al to the now nest caton lie He rel reiterated ralo Mr statement ot of yesterday ye that the tho nw nou was because ee th ili railroads absolutely needed the In revenues On many marty carlod carload rates I it wa fel felt by the committee no nc could be e made but It wn was foil that on short haul hauls les than Ol 1 coull could afford to pay added rates arranGement would enable ship I Irs r to tt take advantage or of carload ries ME to 0 n A general point the 11 row there getting sonic some advantage from rota added rates on the tho short hauls Irom torn distributing pOints The Cl L ion committee dId not the lon price prices ot of articles on which the WU tr r liar Har Harriot iott said ald the controlling reasons In riot the was the tho 11 necessity for tor more ant amid to got Get It this his was deemed the bet best way So far a as was practicable te the commit committe ht te OntI the were o 0 emedy so tar far I as possible a an In Iii reme ustice that might result In the OIIn stion He said eaid It would bo be for or the sixty odd rots roads the to follow not only tho but alo also to e c 1 ting commodity rate rates In order to vb ala z iii I the 11 by Mr It Harrot that on the avera average mis ci r car pW lay c rl carload rates WON it than II n han hati WE loaded landed now 11 r Le nit the InS on oni tb i t d s of were were grafer It developed nt at this point that at a I of the shippers and those rep their Interests former At torne orney G 0 oJ Ohio Monnett Monnet lion Uon J IT H and Mr Mat Mathews hews of Cincinnati had been appoint appointed ed ti to present Cincinnat to the commission tile the of acton Mr 1 r ot 10 Hl t t presented n a resolution adopt d Jy Y the interests Interest to the di at the tenton present hearing showing was alleged discriminations against I tho iD wal small shIppers In favor faor of the large smal upper shipper and the fact that lint railroads hind had to extend the time for Cor th the new to go Into elec effect These resolutions were supplemented by V a U by n a majority of oC the uppers In attendance upon the hear hearIng Ing Is asking that the commission lay the before the Attorney generl general of r the ed States wih with a view to have ave him bring acton action agaInst the ri rail roads ads to prevent the new classification om becoming effective on em January 1 00 The petition petton follows The e undersigned shippers and of various shipping Interests would anti and respectively your our honorable body In view petton of the lie testimony at the BS sos Ilon on held In this city on Dec 21 In the tho theatter matter atter of changes In freight n and advances In freight lr rates b by ton using the officiaL classification that at luch such testimony iI be laid ald before hits his the attorney general of the hoor United tilted States for tor the tho ot of In Informing forming him of oC the ct cf taking tion b by Jr r In the thu i In lew ot of the laid down downIn In Thurber Railroad March MarchI I 1800 1500 and In view ot of the decision of the C court or of the United States In the Cle case and th the tie de n In the lie Joint Association cade wo we blaIr the evidence wi will cale rant such proceedings ns as the acton action of said fald classification committee Is ie clearl clearly In violation ot of the federal stat statUte ute known I as the Sherman Sherman AntiTrust Act For some time the attorneys of at the tho shippers argued In favor laor of the com coin commission mission takinG taking the suggested acton action Chairman Knaup of the maIntaining that the commission had hal no more authority to make recommendations m to the attorney goner gener general al than representatives or of the shippers shipper The commission had no objection to furnishing to the attorney general nt at atthe the suggestion of the shippers a trans transcript or of the evidence adduced nt at the hearing together wih with the sus suggestion ston stonor or of hearinG the shipper for action under the antitrust law The attorneys for tor the tho shippers offered of offered to furnish testimony showing that the operation of the new cation would wOld be In restraint of trade trado to that ext extent nt I a violation of ex cx law lawn lawIt n It WIS was determined finally that the tho would offer some somo testimony shipper shippers D 11 W Drown representing Schofield Schumer Tale Teale of Cleveland 0 was sworn le lie said th the new cation on petroleum would be absolutely absolutely ruinous to smal small shippers On less les than carload carioad lots tho ho In cr se above the rates rates on carload lots wan in some ome Instances ns as much as aR per cent nd In no case caso was It less Ie than 83 vcr per cent Mr Brown said U tl small shippers of 01 oil could not success successfully smal fully funy compete with the Standard OH 01 company compan because the rates given the Standard 01 Oil on carload lots were so much tees leI than the smal small shippers could get on lots that the later hatter practically were shut out of much territory Mr 0 II H 1 a carriage man of Cincinnati testified that thattie tho tie proposed Increase se In the claR classifies lion propose of vehicles would limit Ohio and ton carriage to adjacent to their anti and that It would be ire of competition throughout the tho This cosed closed the t testimony mad and the tho hearing wal was adjoUrned |
