Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-08-15 | Page 1 | Memphis Cottonseed Shippers Complain

! MDIPHIS COTTONSEED : SHIPPERS COMPLAIN WASHINGTON, Ang. IS. Memphis, 1 Tean, shippers ' and dealers in cotton seed, through a complaint filed with the interstate commerce commlsstoa today, to-day, allege that they are being discriminated dis-criminated against in favor of St. Louis, Mo., on shipments of the product from points is Missouri, Arkansas and Louis-isns Louis-isns snd other statss to Memphis. The commission ia asked to adjust the rates so ss to plaes Memphis oa sa squslity with St. Louis. .KICK 1-BOM WICHITA. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Unjust discrimination in freight rates oa canned and dried end evaporated fruits aad vegetables produced in ' Missouri and Arkansas aad chipped to Wichita. Kaa, is alleged la a complaint filed today wih the interstate commerce commission by the traneportatioa bureau bu-reau of Wichita. It is averred that other wholesaling center, like Kansas Citv and Hutchinson, Kan., ars gives by "the St. Louis tt Ban Francieeo railroad rail-road aad other earn era better rates than are granted to Wichita. It is urged that the rates ea the commodities commodi-ties named be placed oa aa equitable basis.