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Show 1 DISCiif INMIffl '" 1 OF RAILROADS 3jK f TACOMA, Sept, S.Alleging discrim- .vm lnatlon """I asking that tho railroads " u forced to grant ilia same rates for m 5? cattl BhIPPed to Pugfit Sounil via .U Wallula as thoso routed by wav of fW. Portland, tho complaint of the Car- m $ BonH Packing company against the "1U j Orogon &. Washington, the Oregon 53? 7 Short Lino, the Union Pacltic and the Northern Pacific railways occupied i nearly all of the afternoon session ? of the hearing held today by Frank- ' M lm Lane f tho interstate commerce jH ? commission. JJ I Commissioner Lario took the case ' undcr advisement and gave both par- 'B 1 tios thlrty da'6 to file their briefs and jM i; fiftoen additional days In which to P I'. make answer. m J Tho rates now In effect from tho If 'f cattlo ranges in Montana, Idaho and J fi. eastern Orogon to Tacoma aro ap- A ft proximately ?97 a carload via Port- ll land, whereas the rales via Wallula -r'Z aro $l12- T,le rate to Portland is ?81. m I The complaint alleges that the clos- ';i ing of the Wallula gateway effectively J shuts up the shortest, ertslcst and iB ) safest route to Tacoma. and that If M this routo is closed Uie Mississippi V r valley packor benefit at the expenso 'fl i thoso on the coast. ill J no |