Show the gooding long and short haul bill senator frank IL gooding of idaho advises that he will continue the tight fight tor for nondiscriminatory discriminatory non freight rates tor for the intermountain inter mountain territory just as soon as congress convenes during the last session 0 of congress senator gooding sponsored a bill which proposed to take from the interstate commerce commission the power to grant to the carriers authority to charge more lor for the short than for the long haul senator goodings hill bill passed the senate 54 to 23 but was killed in th the e house committee on interstate and foreign commerce hy by chairman windslow placing so many obstacles in its path that li ir never left the committee senators smoot and king of 0 utah and senator pittman of 0 nevada have assured us that they will lend every possible assistance to senator gooding in his efforts to secure immediate consideration tor for the bill by the senate congressmen colton and leatherwood of utah french of idaho hoch of kansas and numerous other members of the house from the western and southern districts will act as a steering committee to see that the bill receives proper treatment by the house committee jim ford secretary ot of uie the intermediate rate rat association writes that it is going to take the combined efforts ot of every interested shipper to put over the gooding bill jim Is now la in washington and will stick until the gooding bill or a similar measure becomes coleslaw slaw law the shippers feel afeei that they have suffered long enough from unjust and discriminatory freight rates they will demand a square deal and will rill accept nothing else things never looked as good as they do now tor for the passage of favorable legislation however you must not get gel so optimistic that you will tall fall to get in and do your bit it you have a friend or close bustness business acquaintance in the sast east drop them a note and ask them to write their senator and congressmen Congre samen to sup up port senator goodings Go bill dont forget that it la Is a case of 0 put the tha gooding bill over during the coming session 0 of o congress or find yourself youra olt back to where you were twenty years yeara ago with your west coast competitor paying approximately 25 per cent less leas for his freight charges than you yo are ara paying you of course realize how inconsistent the carriers are in their requests tor for a 5 per cent increase In creage to the intermountain country and a reduction in the rate tor for hauling the samo same commodity over the same rails to a point miles beyond the following Is an example ot of the unreasonableness bleness ot of the carriers re quest the present rate on dry goods is per one hundred pounds from chicago to uta utah h common points with the same rate applying to san francisco and other pacific coast cities it the commission should grant the c carriers ra application for a 5 per cent increase that would make the rate from chicago to utah approximately per one hundred pounds and the increase Is not to apply to coast cities the second application of the carriers for permission to reduce the rate from chicago to the pacific coast would it granted give the coast cities a rate of per one hundred pounds on the same package and the carriers do not propose to give the people of utah any reduction in other words the railroads propose to charge you approximately SG cents per one hundred pounds tor for a mile shorter haul than they are willing to to your neighbor on the pacific coast alter after reading the above try and make yourself your believe that the carriers are interested in building up the interior country the utah payroll builder |