Show RELIEf IS ISI I IN SIGHT fOR INLAND TOWNS Dixon Amendment Regulating ing Freight Hauls Would Brin Bring It Special to The T Telegram gram WASHINGTON April Apri 12 Senator 12 Senator Dixons Dixon's proposed amendment to the railway bill regulating long hong and short hauls and forbidding any interstate carrier to char charge e more moro proportionately for a short than for a lon long haul will probably be bo adopted It will mean relief re re- re lid lief lier from the tho burdens now imposed on ou such cities as Butte Butto Helena Billings and Salt Lake which pay on shipments from the east cast the full rate to the coast p plus us the local rate back to destination n. n Tho lon long and short haul clause adopted adopt adopt- ed in the rate bill was as ne by provisos that emasculated it Heyburn was ready Teady to introduce the Dixon amendment The intermountain senators senators sena sena- tors are determined to put the Dixon amendment in the bill and the thc Republican can leaders headers seem see disposed to yield Otherwise Otherwise Oth Oth- Dixon and others will will resist resist the passa passage e of the railway bill Dixon had a letter Better etler read in the senate today from the manager of the Spokane Merchants' Merchants association showing that the tho railroads' railroads contention that 2 water water competition was responsible for the extra char charge e is false The letter showed that commodities not handled bandied bv by water at all are arc subject to the same ame burdensome burdensome burden burden- some sonie charges es |