| Show RAILROADS ARE AREA IN A QUANDARY I New Rate Law Prohibits Their Thein Owning Products They Transport CANNOT RUN ELEVATORS If I T e They Cannot Icu Leac e Them Nv Law May Subject Railroads l to 10 Severe ere S cre Penalties Penalties Washington J July ely 8 The 8 The great great carrying grain railroads of the thc West Vest have come conic face to face with wih a proposition tion ton under the new rate rte law that brings Into question the validity of I their methods of handling that product prod prod- net in Iii the lie elevators the they tiley own along the lines hues of oC their roads and antl at terminals nals nals The Thc new law prohibits railroads owning or dealing in tho the products they transport this Isis proviso having been In Inserted Inserted In- In sorted in iii the law to prevent ton Ions lons on oms the part of the lie coal-carrying coal roads oads SI Situation t I 11 t lOll Inn Serious Tho The big railroad interests of oC the West cst that lint control the wheat output realize reali the tl seriousness of the lie new ne' situation situation situ situ- alon and amid have lund had representatives In Washington endeavoring to tu find out just where tile the they stand with respect to Limo tho now new law haw Recently a representative lye tive of the Missouri MisourI Pacific came caine care here hereto to hi confer with the state Interstate commerce commissioners but with wih what r result Is not known The new law Jaw contains a definition of what constitutes transportation trans 0 i o ii u it definition I oil n I t i on exceedingly broad and comprehensive It I Includes elevator levator storage etc The rue railroads fire are now In Imi a quandary as to 10 whether they hey must cease leasing their elevators and operate them themselves themselves- If I they cannot lease lee them but hut must operate them for Cor themselves s 's In Iii order to lug bring the whole business of elevator service ice cleaning anti and storage of grain In Iii Innot Innot not such roads be Lac violating that hint sec sec- new law the question I Is asked ell Will Vilh VI lots uch uchi roads be he violating that lint section sec then tion ton that prohibits a n railroad from rota In those articles It I transports transport The rho new law will wil be he operative before this years year's crops move anti and if the usual methods of the railroad companies arc are arcIn arcIn In lit violation of the time law the roads In Involved In- In alies vol etI will wi be Le subject to severe pen pen- I y IVa Grain Orain Ca Case Cas It I Is said the legal advisers of the Chicago Great Vestern Western road will wil en- en ol fa to have the time old uld P Peavy avy y a grain tase rase reopened This company cl cleaned nell and stored all al the tIme grain grin shipped over the Iho Union Pacific and anti ultimately reshipped re- re shipped I It rue Tho company enjoyed a monopoly ly of oC the grain grin business s of or the time 1 loath load o Hl and amid was paid a fixed price by Ly bythe time the railroad for Its Is service which was claimed to be lie of or the nature of a re re- re bate After an Investigation by hy th the lie commission It was held the arrangement arrange arrange- mont ment l was as had bath but there was no law to stop stoll IL it It The attorneys for this thiS road claim that hint under the new law taw they can Cn win the case J Jf If this is done one the whole business bl probably would woul be revolution revolution- Izell It I is claimed that lint railroad companies com com- would be 11 compelled to own their terminal elevators at points where gain is unloaded cleaned and anel anelI I and amid to Include the co cost t of 31 all the p services in the lie freight eight rate j Whether hether they thoy would be o II permitted to own awn the elevators at the receiving I or lease them to some seine manag manag- lug ing concern Is a mat matter I upon which the lie lawyers ilo tto not agree agie e. e |
