Show UTAH 01 AH SHIPPERS MA MAYET YET EE SECURE U I RE RELIEF I Mc BIfi VI VICTORY TORY POINTS WAY IVAY In Case Similar to That of Salt Lake City Denver Gets Favorable Favorable Favorable Fa Fa- Ruling from InterState InterState Inter Inter- State Commerce Commission KINDEL'S TRIUMPH WILL WILLBE BE OF HELP TO UTAH Discrimination urination Such as s Is I Practiced Against Salt Lake I City Is F Fro owned Frowned wined Upon by byl Great Government Board JUSTICE IS SURELY SUREL Y COMING i iI ij i I j D Denver aver March As 18 18 As the I result of the decision r rendered rendered ren ren- en dered Wednesday by the Interstate Interstate Interstate In In- Commerce commission commission commission commis commis- sion a campaign in the interest interest interest in in- terest of Salt Lake and Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver will be begun at once The decision gives George J. J Kindel a big victory i in n his i fight against discrimination t against Denver by the rail rail- roads Kin Kindel's del's dels contention I in his suits before the commission cons com 1 mission was t that at tl the e railroads railroads rail rail- roads were discriminatory rail rail-I against Denver and that the rates from the Mississippi r-a r q w h l. l to Delver Ar land 1 i from m I r. r I r r v V VS R r S Tand be He e II wasas was as upheld in every lar The case decided d was tram known as ns No filed tiled by Kindel before the commission commission commission com com- mission In 1906 against the New York New Haven d Hartford and eighteen other railroads Including all roads doIng doIng doing do- do Ing business In Colorado Tho ruling affects this territory In the same manner manner man man- ner as the ruling handed down by the commission a n. few days daf ago In the Spokane rate caso affects that ter ter- I Only In to that case caso the the- commission commission commission com com- mission named the rates which were considered reasonable and Just It Is expected that action In the Kindel case by tho the railroads will follow very closely closel the action taken by the roads In the Spokane case o Case Watched with Inte Interest t. t The Kindel case has been watched with Interest by railroads and businessmen business businessmen men throughout the West The hear hearing ing took place in this city In January 1907 1 07 and Just about that time th the Denver Chamber of or Commerce filet an Intervening petition with the com commission commission mission stating slating that the relief SOU sough hl was not to the best Interests of tin the business men of ot his city and that th the Chamber of Commerce was not Ir it favor of or a rate rato a ton a mile b basis foid foi traffic In this territory Kindel found d opposition to his suit vcr very strong and It was over two years before a decision de de- but when It came wa was rendered It was a victory for Kindel and a defeat defeat defeat de de- feat for his opponents Tho The foundation for the thc suit was tho the rates which gave San Francisco and points with longer haul lower rates than Denver secured with witha a a. short haul an and andIs Is exactly similar to Utah conditions It was exactly of or the same sarno same nature nature as fi the Spokane suit which sought soucht to prevent tho the roads I the rate from from giving ng a a. lower East to Seattle than was granted from about halftime half halt the Eat East to Spokane with the time distance to the named first-named point Tho The suit oppose opposed the granting of competitive waterway I rates rate against which la is also entitled to competitive competitive com com- Denver rates through the Galveston harbor |