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Show PRESMT TO INVESTIGATE FREIGHT RITES IN UTAH Western Roads Accused of Discriminating Discrimi-nating Against Inter-Mountain Cities, and Violating Anti-Trust Anti-Trust Laws. Washington. President Taft on Wednesday took up for investigation and promised to act at once on a complaint com-plaint filed with him alleging that the western railroads are discriminating against Salt Lake City, Ogden and other inter-mountain cities in the matter of freight rates, and are violating vio-lating the anti-trust laws. The charges were made by Senators Sena-tors Smoot and Sutherland and Representative Rep-resentative Howell, all of Utah. They asked that the matter be taken up by the department of justice rather than by the interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. The papers filed alleged that Mr. Harriman shows no respect for any law but the federal. The papers declare that Harriman lines are enormously profitable, and Include a petition from commercial bodies in Utah saying the discrimination discrimi-nation has been carried on for many years, and that the roads have steadily stead-ily increased rates and eliminated competition. Higher rates, it is said, are being charged for freight from Chicago, Missouri river points and . Denver to the Utah territory than for the much longer haul to Pacific coast cities. These rates, says the petition, are without warrant of any competent court or commission. The roads specified are the Southern South-ern Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Oregon Short Line, the Oregon Railroad Rail-road & Navigation company, the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Missouri Pacific, the Colorado Midland, the Colorado & Southern, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Atchison, Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Fe. |