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Show i voire mora chingee than any other tariff publication ever Issued by Amr lean railroads The work done In preparation for tbla laaue la said to bare roat Ih rsllroads approximately 1500,000. Moat Important Phaeae. "Of tbe many phaaea of the dec!-alon dec!-alon the first In Importance are tbe rulea and regulations. Tbe carrlera proposed many changes. Theae are applicable to every city, town and hamlet west or the Mlsslslppl liver. The atate commlaaloua made o ejection ejec-tion to fourteen of tbeae rules, and changea were made or ordered In twelve of them. "A concrete Illustration of theae concerna tbe dunnage allowance. Prior to the laauance of No. 61. tbe carrlera permitted tbe ahlppera to uae lumber and boards to prop up machinery machin-ery In a car, tbe rail road a hauling 600 pounda of aucb lumber free of charge No. 61 abollahed tbe dunnage privilege, privi-lege, and tbe commlaalon ordered It relnatated. When one cooaldera the tbouaanda of shipments that are made annually, the Importance of each ruling can be appreciated. "Another change of Importance to tbe western half of the United Btatee concerna green bldea. The carrlera put In a rule parmlttlng them to refuse re-fuse to take green bldea for ahlpment We pointed out that they could be atored or bandied In live atock cara, and not contaminate other commodities, commodi-ties, and claimed that tbe carriers ahould be compelled to accept tbe aame for transportation. Oar position was auiitalned by the commlaalon. Minimum Rate Ruling. "Several hundred ad ranees were proposed by tbe railroads In minimum weights. Tbey announced their policy pol-icy to be tbe establishment of mini-muma mini-muma upon the physical capacity of the cara, refualng to take Into consideration consid-eration the commercial conditions aarroundlng the transportation. Carload Mlxturea. "One of tbe moat Important parte-of this caae concerna carload mixtures. The carrlera propoaed the elimination of carload mlxturea on 134 artlclea, and propoaed changes restricting car load mlxturea on more than three hundred hun-dred other articles. One of tbe moat Important changes affecting carload mixtures, which serves as an Illustration Illustra-tion of the effect of such changes, concerns binding twine. Prior to the Issuance of No. 61, the carriers per mltted binding twine to be shipped mixed with agricultural Implements, all of which took carload rates. In No. 61, they proposed to apply leaa than carload ratea on all shipments of binding twine made In this manner. This would have canned an advance of about one hundred per cent In the freight rates on binding twine, and more than ninety per cent of all binding bind-ing twine shipments, we were told, by tbe largest shippers In tbe couvt try, would be affected by this hundred per cent advance. "As Indicating tbe policy et tbe carriers, thirty-two articles bad car load mixtures granted to them, while over five hundred articles were totally eliminated from carload mixtures, or the mixtures were changed or restricted. re-stricted. Tbe Interstate commerce commission haa ordered tbe carrlera to pursue diametrically the opposite course. Instead of restricting mixtures, mix-tures, tbey are Instructed to make them more liberal. "In addition to theae changes In rules, the commission made specific orders dlaapprovtng advances on a long Hat of articles. Tbe decision In this ease Is tbe moat epoch-making on clarification matters ever rendered render-ed by the Interstate commerce com mission." " NOTABLE VICTIM FOB UNPEOPLE Upsetting of Western Classified ! tion 51 Means Much. , RAILROADS LOSE BIG CASE Chairman Therne of lows Commission Commis-sion Tells How the Shippers and Consumers of the West Benefit Bene-fit by the Decision. Dee Molaea, la., March 13 The people peo-ple of tbe United States have bad Iowa to thank for a number of excellent ex-cellent things, and to tbe list must be now added an achievement that means a great deal to the shippers of the entire west from tbe Mlsslslppl to the Pacific. Especially are those shippers under obligations to tbe Iowa slate board of railroad commissioners and its chairman, Clifford Thorae. This achievement Is the suspension and revision, by tbe Interstate commerce com-merce commission, of an entire freight classification, known aa Western classification clas-sification No. 61, and on March II the several hundred changes made to conform con-form to tbe commission's order will go Into effect Shippers and consumers consum-ers alike will benefit by the revision, lows Leeds the Fight Iowa's commission was by no means alone In the good work, but It took the InittaUve In tbe case and assumed the chief part of tbe burden of preparing pre-paring and trying It Sixteen western state railroad commissions united in the fight, and Mr. Thorne was tbe chairman of the committee representing represent-ing them. He gives much credit to Benjamin L. Jarobson, who bad general gen-eral charge of gathering the evidence and preparing the specific cases for trial, and to A. D. Deals, Iowa's rate expert Mr. Thorne today bad this to say of tbe big caae and Its outcome: "One day during tbe summer of 1911 I was seated In a hotel partor In Milwaukee. Mil-waukee. In one end of the room there were sixteen men In their shirtsleeves, talking and listening occasionally to a person standing In the center of the room; two or three minutes were allowed al-lowed to the gentleman talking; be took bis seat and another peraon told a short story; and so on, during tbe course of the whole day. Powerful Oroup of Men. This small group of men exercised ' more power than any other similar group, perhaps, n the United States. Some nine hundred railroads, large mod small, Interested In traffic between be-tween the Mlsslslppl river and the Pacific Pa-cific coast, have organised what they call a western classification committee commit-tee of about eighty five members. These eighty-five men have selected a sub-committee of sixteen men. This sub-committee, which Is dominated by one or two Individuals, determines the freight ratings on over 7,000 artlclea, on which 36,000,000 people bave to pay trafll o between about 30.000 towns, located between the Mississippi Mississip-pi river and the Pacific coaat This Is one of tbe three Important classification, classifi-cation, committees In America, tbe other two being tbe official, covering the northeastern portion of the United Unit-ed States, and the Southern. "For the first time In Ufe history of American railroads an entire classification classifi-cation of one of these three great freight classification committees bas been suspended by the federal government govern-ment And the committee I have described de-scribed haa been making a revision of Its former work. In accordance with the decision which was rendered by 1 the Interstate commerce commission recently, known as the decision In the caae of Western classification No. 61. The railroads have Just submitted to the commission a list of several hundred hun-dred changes In this classification to conform to the commission's order.and 1 these will go Into effect March 31. i Tbe opinion In this case, next to the i one rendered In the express case, la perhaps the longeat ever written by tbe Interstate commerce commission, i The caae la of national Importance. Many of Its features are unique, and ; of profound concern to the consumer : of the country. I Sixteen States United. "Many shippers and shippers' or ganisatlons were parties to this case, i Hut perhaps the most Interesting fea-i fea-i tare was the fact that on behalf of . tbe conaumers the railroad commts-i commts-i slons of sixteen great states appear ! ed. These states were Illinois, Wisconsin. Wis-consin. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, , Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Ofcla-I Ofcla-I noma. Nebraska, South Dakota. North Dakota. Colorado. Nevada, Washing-i Washing-i ton and Oregon. On tbe one band we i bad the representatives of some nine hundred railroads, and opposed to them the representativea of alxteea i state governments, with the Interstate commerce commieslon as the deciding tribunal. Tbe bearing In tbe case lasted about a year. "Western Classification No. 61 In- |