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Show CARRY EVERYTHING BUT STOCK IN CATTLE CARS j I'KNVKK. .tan. C". Foreign rates on stock shipments from the West to the Missouri river and Chicago matkets were the suhject of a hearing In this citv hefore t'. A. I'romy of t ho I'tii'e l States Interstate Commerce commission. The hearing was a continuation of the one opened in Chicago a few weeks ago In the case of the Texas "at t legruwers association against various railroads The stockmen ask for a reduction in rates on livesio, k and want the extra two dollars dol-lars terminal charges made in Chicago, for switching ahoii.-herl They also allege that stock rales ate excessive ami that the servhf Is pooler than ever hefore. A. F I e Kicqlex. general manager of the American Livestock and Ijind k-om -puny of Iienver. testified that the- tim consumed In the trns, of cat'le fr-m the Northwest had increased from r 4 to hours He declared that the stock-growers stock-growers were alwavs prompt In loading and unl 'adlng and that t hj railroads were whoilv responsihle. for delays Me thought this condition was due to the want of discipline The service seemed to he demoralized de-moralized hy an effort on tne part of the railroad superintendents to make a show -ing He complained that stock. ars were used hv the railroads for the t ra tisnort a -tlon of coal and other commodities and said this was one of the causes of the shortage in cars for sto. k. in many case lie said, carloads of coal wer" carried car-ried in trains of cattle cars, contrary to law Maurdo Ma. kenz'e. president of the Amerhan National Livestock association, said that lie t.eyeved that the traffic departments of the railroads wanted to give good service. hn the operating departments de-partments tried to haul everv ton they could possilcv put on a train, with the result that slow :lm.' is made. When asked it he ohserved the use of cattle cars for hauling coal or other oomrrodi-t oomrrodi-t ies. he replied . "Thev haul everything except rattle He cited cases where shippers were con polled to ho'd then cattle for long per- , lo.js, in one . ase for two months, hefore : cars could he secured for shipment. Mr. Mackenzie said rates wer. more uniea.sonahle tela-, tn oi several years ago on a. , mini of the poorer service. He de-c'are.l de-c'are.l t'.at unless the railroads would do something to help the stockmen In g" tinir their cars shipped it would he Ju.t well foi the cattlemen to go out of V.ijsiness He said 'hat during the pas' vear tens of thousands of cattle end Fheep Irj Texas. New Mexico and Arizona ):a,c been held on the range heofuise the raiders could not get cars for shipment. |