Show WEST IS BLED BY RAILROADS GOODING SAYS IN BILL FIGHT L Lines lH's Enjoy Prosperity N Never ever Dreamed of Senator Asserts CITES UNFAIRNESS I Fast Objecting Flayed for Object Object- ing to Act to Help Interior Area ByThe WASHINGTON March 12 IBy 12 Time The Associated Press Press of the tho United States are enjoying a 1 prosperity ne never er dreamed of In their history Senator Gooding Republican of o Idaho told the sen- sen senate sen sen-at sen ate today ursine In-ursine passage of ot his bill which would prohibit the road roads ch charging proportionately more mor for forn fora tora n a short hort haul than for a longer haul to meet water transportation com coin competition competition petition He lie offered to prove that the tho Panama canal bringing about a great development in the Pacific coast t region gave cave roads 1 00 tons tOilS of freight for every ton of or taken from them and shipped through the canal CASE IS 1St CITED discrimination He lie cited as existing Lion tion a cattle shipment from Idaho to Portland Ore on which the charges charge were X SS more a car than Ihan the tariff from Dillon Mont to Portland a ft distance of ot 31 miles longer lonter than that from Idaho Senator Senata- Gooding ar that the wonderful development a on the great lakes l ke and on rivers and can can- canal canale can canals al ale als east of o Chicago was effected d through regulations which would not p permit wafer wath transportation to charge higher hither rates for tor short hort than thal for long long- hauls Yet time the th people east of ChIcago are demanding that this government shall continue a policy toward transportation west and south of Chicago that has hns destroyed water transportation and as as- long as we continue that policy there Is not even l a fighting chance for tor water ater transportation to exist or come back on backon our waterways In the south or west fn Cr capital will nc nero nero- invest t In river boats e a Ion long Ions Arthe railroads railroad lire are to charge char more for th thi thO horter haul to mEEt ni Inland water lAtIon on our In- In In land rivers tEST WI-ST JOT 1 Th Thin l has hns spent Ii- Ii 1 for river and harbor harol he ho argued but as S far asfar as te west and south are arp eon on 1 practically every very r has li been rendered useless by th I- I commerce commission pc pe he he railroads to discriminate ate in 11 the matter mitter pf or f rates no |