| Show or of Toll Tell their to time Iho San Ian April 2111 Inter Interstate state Itte commerce commission resumed the hearing today of tb the complaint of It St It Louis Lolli against Pa out coast Jobbers and till the Suu Southern thorn Pa cHic company charging that a nation In restraint of trade had been beene e to the detriment ot of the middle middlet wept t Charles president of the firm ot of holbrook and vice enl of the Coast Cout Jobber Jobbe association wu warn the first wit n ne Asked as to tb the effect teet ot of lowering the b he said 14 th the would be that local dealers would get t more freight hr bY water lien hen b be would have bave to buy bur on th the coast coul and not notha In ha the mIddle west t where a great 1 deal of If bu baa bat been done ne He said Mid I that hi ha Us thee last year ear he be rt tJ received Only 1 U 11 per cent of b his freight b by water lid 1101 brook presented a showing the ot of freight shipped III to 0 this city b by his Grin firm in III th the last tin year It showed sma an lacre increase of rh since Inte Asked Aked It if lie he thought the existIng differentIal w were Ju Juit he bee said Id they were ere Ht He said Id II he would never liner bandon water shipments eis 1 ar are a factor In lb the con COD control ot of railroad rb rates k Id that late latt In the and earl early in the toe los the be ben began gan n to ship In large Irce when the railroad became III an to secure the freight that tV was then being b bY lea lie He said the lowering ot of rat rates tad had the effect of letting Use the middle Vet Vest Jobbers Into competitIon on this coast Ott 01 Mr fr was u asked what If any n would result to lit the consumer If differentIals should be lowered lower I dont dOllt think tM the would be benefited It at all for the reason 1011 that the goods ire re here heN and distributed with whit a very nry small mall margin of profit U it Uthe the ate ape lowered tb the menU would simply be If t the b ot of the business or of distrIbution from the local lid and Jobbers to the St It StLouis Louis LoUIl houses Would It not be hatter for Ule tte merchants merchant of this coast It if they were wre permitted to purchase In St It Louis hl o or other In the East at rather than be confined to a na market Perhaps It would |
