Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-05-20 | Page 2 | Intermountain States Win First Round In Long Flight

I INTERMOUNTAIN STATES WIN WINI I J FIRST S ROUND IN LONG FLIGHT Senate enate Passes GaDding Gooding Bill Designed to Pre Pre- Prevent Prevent Pre Prevent vent Freight Rate Injustice to Intermediate Intermediate Inter- Inter Intermediate 1 mediate Shippers WASHINGTON In slay 20 Acting for the th t time at this e on Important railroad le i th i senate late yesterday y passed the Gooding bill to limit application lion tion of lh long lone and short hort haul of the Interstate commerce act ct The measure restrict the Interstate corn com com merco commissIon c lon In lower chare tor for i t long haul hout than for short hort hauls within Its It limit I rIO to cases c circuitous routes rouLe export and Important traffic and block Mock express rates Such lun ac has hns been een sought for tor 20 ears by Interests In the tho Inter Inter- Intermountain mountain Inter mountain rate te rat territories The Th Interstate commerce corn com commission com mission hu has ha for tor vears ears maintained tits power to permit a a common car ar ear ear- carrier tier rier to charge lc less les s for tor a long lone than for a short hort haul Included In the tho thelong long haul when the carrier has shown after public publio hearing that uch Is for tor the maintenance of Its servIce Th The measure passed p s ed by the senate enat would permIt departure only In th the ClUes cases of circuitous routes in the making of export and Import r rAtes les and with retard regard to the bloc block I ell CX press rates Spon ored by Senator Gooding 1 Republican Idaho the thc bill u ats taken up for final debate Immedi Immediately after the th senate had disposed of the soldier bonus bonu bill 1 Fletcher letcher Democrat Florida insisted that the th measure would result In the railroads eon eon- on on- on their present prent rates to tn- tn Intermediate In or short hort haul points rind raising their long lone haul or coast rates raLes Senator Pittman Democrat N- N NIda N vada N-vada iada I contended that such uch II a rest rest-It would be b Impossible nn an Increase e or of long lone haul rates to the point of making them compensatory satory atory would result In such an n in- in increase in crease In re revenue as al to require l the Interstate commerce commission to reduce rates