| Show k I I r Khi-r I 5 imi gH t of or il c runt ti nt iu I Action lou TIme L The first telA step tel S Chicago o. o March I 1 12 movement for ur ar lower 10 freight In It time the Missouri A 5 I East to all ull from the rates y I was waN taken u 0 at t a 0 meeting river Iver points officials of or all of or of time tho executive c raiLroads railroad here hurt week 1 western will notS not schedules the new Although h S. S until tn after anel the thc confer confer- Ul S be lie h announced It is In known that time they IB It over oer once ence which Into jt th the six classes cla affect will ami will wille be e divided hl is I freight I Hor between the thc In all the live uve the thc Atlantic J Ml l Missouri url river and reduction wl 1 f. f general tIme the S lion board rd in 10 cent approximately I 1 15 tj 5 Ie per ICI to Issued IH the meeting meUn was suns Ii The Tue call for COL the Chicago ii Instance In- In tance of time the th ut nt road whose ri-p- ri i St. St the tho proposition lt 1011 presented t d la vc strongly IWi IW which was urns reductions rm for 01 5 tun favored ll by IY II time the Chicago railroad Voluntary Action l 1 J. I l cil ell Initial move mo was taken tak tak- t Although h the to tu a a. demand by h the en 11 0 In rates rate lower louver f. f Missouri l tI river Jobbers for of time the roads lORt the proposed action and is taken because be he- he Ial largely b h IK voluntary an conviction that t In the of or the th cause would be forc forced on end ond a r rc reduction e progressive Not Nol a afew Il a few fe feor of or the time more believe c honestly men however ho have o u-n changed that that con railroads to 1 the time duty of the lIw It Ithe I I- I settled I poi poi- thickly mat tales s in lii the more mUI Although the I country country- lions lolU of or the railroads al many man mil million mil mil- iut tit will cOst t l the annually It Is 18 b believed Ile lion of oC dollars I I Kut will stimulus stimulus p will h le given u h to tu a. a all alls all all' cia s ur of r business and this will In lit Inthe the th end coil more than limn compensate h for 01 forthe or the time temporal II I lut TI ion tuiti ugh nigh I I M E- E J J. J H. H third vice president of Jr tin time th St. St Paul road Ml said fit I p opo o- o po 1 reductions are r offered because many of oC th men liei In lu the West Vest 1st ell believe the tite present tariffs are arc too loo high I o ln to of hf r preferences and 1111 concessions 1 In ln the Uw rates and owing ow ow- ing to time the increased Inch 1 Ih density of or I IThe The They ai are an not proposed not Jn In the Interest of any lii Center nor nol In him the tho In Interest In- In Iciest terest of oC any utile one railroad but hut for or time the benefit ot of all shipper f t. t of- of all nil Jobbing centers ners aimel of nil railroads tl It is I the thc purport of the lie railroads lIs to preserve a 1 proper propel and on equitable correlation of oC ales Intes from ruin the various points or ort t sources of or supply to the Ule lIh distributing points wt of Chicago and of or the hc I 11 Time The following are me time tIll charges M compared com coin pared with the present nt rat s. s I proposed rollo d dal at St time mating mUng From the th Missouri ouli river 11 to the hc seaboard proposed 1 cla lass class iT second d titLed third tIa class t Si 83 c fourth Jao 61 Cl cents fifth class GO riO c ntH find sixth class cla H. H 10 IC cents Present rates l. l j. j 10 93 i cents 08 ts cents r c cents anti and cents |
