Show ROADS DENIED REQUESTS FOR JuTS CUTS IN LONG HAUL CHARGES Decision Is Victory for States Utah Included HAM lIARD FIGHT MADE l Pacific Coast Reaped Benefit at at Ex- Ex Expense Expense Ex Expense pense of Interior W WASHINGTON March 13 By 13 3 B By The Th Associated Press Press- Press Transcontinental railroads failed today for the tho th second time In five years to win Interstate Commerce commission approval o of reduced freight rates on long lone hauls bauls with with- without without without out applying the cuts to Inter Inter- intermediate mediate movements mo The case decided today was that the western transcontinental car car- carriers car carriers ncr who sought loucht reductions on 47 commodities moving from orl- orl on- on orl-Cin orl gin territory west of ot the Indiana state line to Pacific coast terminals terminals terminals nals In an effort to cop cope copo with eastern manufacturers who can ship hip through the th Panama canal VOTE OTE 7 I TO 3 By Dy B a L 7 3 vote with Com Corn Commissioners Commissioners missioners Esch Meyer and Aitch Aitch- AitchIson Aitchison Ison Ison dissenting the commIssion held that while the carriers hoped to 10 stimulate traffic through the tho proposed reductions and Increase net net revenues they had bud not ap op applied plied the cuts to Intermediate desti desti- desti destinations destinations nations because this would have ha more than offset the th gain pain from Increased traffic to the ports The cases had been pending for three years eaTS and Involved the long iong haut haul provision of section 4 of the interstate commerce act which makes It discretionary with the commission to grant relief relict by per per- permitting per lower lowr rates for long lone than Short hauls bauls The Gooding bill pending In the senate would wipe out this dis discretionary power I The commission held hed that the tho reduced rates would have divert divert- diverted diverted ed cd a n substantial volume of ot trat- trat traffic tic fIe principally Iron and steel art art- arti from arti cia from Interior eastern caste points to Chicago territory and would have havo deprived eastern lines of the revenue they now now derive from the i movement of ot such traffic to At- At Atlantic Atlantic At Atlantic lantic ports porta No Jio o estimate of this 10 loss It Is said raid appeared In the of the case LOSS ESTIMATED With an rail all movement from Chicago of tons of o Iron and steel a year ear and a 11 gain of 50 per pen cent because ot of the reduction reduction reduction tion In rail rates tho th declared by way of illustration the eastern lines would lose Jose the revenue of ot ton The dissenting commissioners who set et forth their views at length declared the tho th majority had failed ailed to decide the th question whether the proposed cuts If it ap- ap applied applied ap applied plied on shorter hauls would be b full fully compensatory or whether the tho present rates to the Intermediate territory are reasonable or Un- Un Unreasonable un unreasonable reasonable ble This th they y declared had always been considered one of the funda funda- fundamental fundamental mental questions In cases of ot thi kind The principal commodities on onI which the tho th roads sought soucht reductions I were Iron and steel paper and andI I paper products product ammunition cot cot- cotI cotton cot cotton ton tOil piece picco goods lard I paint roo roofing ring rosin soap and soda Exten Extensive he hearings hearing were held throughout hout the th country with mid mid- midwestern midwestern western mid western Interests excepting the theIron theiron theIron Iron and steel Industries affiliated with th the U S Steel corpor- corpor corporation corporation generally supporting th the re- re reduced reduced re reduced rates and eastern manufacturing turing and shippers In with the opposition Except for certain lumber fruit mining and flour Interests those thos In the tho th in- in intermountain intermountain In territory also with with- withheld withheld withheld held their support of ot the th proposed reductions no 00 |