Show the shipping cf cattle it it stated that the western weighing association and the Trans missouri freight association has decided to return to the old plan of charging actual weight on shipments of live stock instead ol 01 nf by the carload the new rule will go into egeck jau jan 1 steps will he taken to have the weighing done as expeditiously as aa possible as the delay occasioned by the weighing of live stock has hag been the chiet chiel ob objection ejection of the shippers to adopting this plan the new york butchers Dut cherb chers advocate says that the east and west lines between st louis and I 1 new york and chicago and new york have a proposition under consideration to the limit of the num her ber of horses mules and cattle which shall bs be shipped in in a car or else return to the billing stock by actual weight for years these lines have allowed a minimum of lbs ibs to the car in J 0 1 this class of freight this has led to the building of hundreds of cars I 1 of extraordinary size by the private I 1 corporations which has resulted in the sidetracking of the J ordinary size cars of the railroad companies the official cla sifi sifina cai tion lion committee now non proposes the that under the minimum weight weigh of 20 1 lbs ibs no more than twenty animals should be loaded in a I 1 car at the carload rate for each additional animal loaded in the j same car in excess of twenty head rates will be charged at an minimum minimum weight of 1000 lbs ibs the proposition will be voted on at the 1 next meeting of the executive officers I 1 of the roads |