| Show 7 7 I I II V r I V I E V CENTS t IV I i BIO Biti BI RAISE IN FREIGHT REI T RATES RATE RA TES V VS S I CONFRONTS BUSINESS BUSINESS' MEN RELIEf SEE SEEMS NOT PROBABLE o Hundreds of Letters of Protest Being Re Received at Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington but Government MayBe May MayBe y Be Able to Do Little RASE MEANS MILLIONS TO OV OWNERS NERS OF RAILROADS I 1 Interstate Commerce Commission Commis i sion slon Sion Cannot Act Unless an Illegal Combination in Re Restraint Restraint Re of Trade Is Shown Sh wn EXPERTS HARD AT WORK Washington Dec 13 13 Business men are confronted with an average raise of 14 14 per cent in freight rates rate which was announced by the transcontinental lines and itis itis it it- is discovered th that t the InterI Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- I state st te Commerce commission si n i has no jurisdiction in m the premises premises' nor has any other I department of the govern govern- ment mente An official of f the com commission omI om- om I mission said today that unless nil un- un unless less it can be shown that ilie announced raise in rates ra es isdn I some way a acomb combination on OnI I the part o oZ ot t the off ending attending railways j l V. r. or 1 t 4 f Al All tuai tio the tile r a railroad ar JUt to do o under J l-crIa l t J I rs 1 t t o 4 oti rat l In aT 0 tho In they to theYAn elJ d to tso go In crt ct I th the tho JaW IATT a Is t Js I to prevent proven t the added tax on On tho the bus bust bust- floss nc ss Interests of or the nation a no unlawful combination can be bo shown In this particular ca case c Interstate I I experts in tho time absence of ot d definite data indicating the time total tonnage East annual total revenues and West AVest an and Ute tie Involved In estimate tu ta of C the railroads to the tho da day dav that th the time increase se in profits railroads will amount Into the of or In Jinny D- D ers Hundreds j of ot letters are i pouring in ma J upon the commission protesting against t the Increased rates and and It Is possible will HI bo be made that some borne concerted effort cHart v to Lo make out a case before the ion plon tending to tu show that the Increase and unjustifiable and th tits the Is arbitrary result s of an unlawful combination Falling Fall Fail t I jn ing ng In this thiN the only remedy lies In a as a. appeal to congress l lI In tho time meantime the experts of or the commission are tabulating as rapidly as I the tho now schedules They have proceeded so far In this work vork as to beLble be bo ible oLle to say generally generall that the Increases e from ten to fourteen per cent Two range nige kinds of ot rates lates are affected the tho lass class rate and amI the commodity rate an and Z ho tho charge are confined wholly to east east- jound boun traffic both by rail and by rail ind water It IE is th the commodity rate I la which chich shippers generally general are most moot af af- af and It Js is this that shows tn tiC ugliest hIghest Increase amounting In some in- in to 14 1 per cent |
