Show LONG AND SHORT HAUL UP CASE NOW BEING HEARD BEFORE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION COM COM- MISSION AT WASHINGTON B Both t h Sides Side Submit Final Argument Arguments I In Carrier Carriers Carrier Attempt to Cut Ratel Rates Rate Between Chicago an and Coast W Washington Final as Final arguments in inthe inthe the transcontinental trans long and short ha haul t case ise were were begun last Thursday before the interstate com como mission n. n The tray trans continental a continental carriers argued argued argued ar ar- gued for lor a r reduction of rates from west points such fuch as Chicago to Pacific coast terminals in order to neet t competition of the rail and water water wa ter ter- er routes from the Atlantic to the tho Pacific coast They contend nd that un unter un- un ler ter the present rates rate steel products may be shipped from Pittsburg to the coast and thence by water o o the Pacific coast for less than the same lame products may be shipped from Chicago to the same Bame Pacific coast joints The carriers carrie have asked authority of the commission to reduce the rates from points to the Pacific coa coast t without reducing the rates to Intermediate points The application was WIlS actively opposed by many of the intermediate points affected Frank Lyon representing steamship interests argued against the proposed pro pro- posed pou-d reduction contending that It tt would take business away from ship lines and would not be in line Une with the policy of congress to o promote both kinds of transportation The United States Steel corporation represented by C C. C S S. S also opposed the reduction on the ground that that-it that it would be unwise to upset the rate structure now thereby unsettle unsettle unset unset- tle tie conditions on the Pacific coast because of competition from foreign steel Interests Independent Midwest l Steel interests through Robert Hula however criticized the st st. nd of the steel corporation and argued in favor of ot the rate reduction The City of New York the Boston Doston chamber of commerce and the New England traffic association all represented rented by W. W H. H Chadler opposed the application on the ground that it would deny shippers on the Atlantic seaboard the advantage of their geographical geographical geo geo- graphical location in shipping their products by water to the coast John E. E Benton Denton representing the rate association and corporation corporation cor cor- c of seven intermountain intermountain inter inter- mountain states declared that to rant Trant the reductions would wreck the Panama canal as a commercial agency agency agency agen- agen agen agen- cy b by making rail rates rate that would craw virtually all of the commerce way sway from it He contended that the reduced rates also work a hardship on Intermediate intermediate inter Inter- mediate territory |