Show 1 TO SETTLE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMM COMMIS COMMISSION COM MIS IS SION WILL ACT I I It Will Begin an m Investigation With a it aView aView i View to Determining flight Hight of N P to Close Gateway Chicago o Feb Fob 6 me aid ald today prints the following news article arUelo One of oC the bitterest fights between the tho Harriman and Hill lines over pas passenger passenger senser business to tho the Pacific north northwest northwest northwest west is to 10 be bo settled ty bY tho tue Interstate Commerce commission That body hat has given notice that on February 17 I it will begin an Investigation or its own motion at It t Chicago with a view to determining tho tue right of tho the Northern Pacific to close the Portland gateway Y to through business over oel tho the Harriman Incidentally tao ta case caso will go far fai toward determining tho lie right of or ortho tho the commission to through routes and compel railroads R to join In lit I through tariffs tariff ana ann therefore the time right of or a 0 traveler to y a through I ticket over oyer any an two or more lines which reach his destination In the present case caso the Pacific has lies always refused to Join the tho I Harriman lines linos In a n rate to Seattle by 11 the way war of Portland After Artor I I tho the passage of tho the Hepburn act Harriman lines linos filed a through tariff under tinder the theory theor that tho the genera con concurrence currence of tho tIme Pacific In their tariffs covered the tilO sit sil situation The commission ordered this tariff taken out gut upon tho the ruling that each tariff should be bo accompanied with witha a concurrence of tho connecting line lino which was lacking hackIng In hi tins tais case CUBe Then the tho harriman mcd mei ne tiled lied a tar tariff I iff He ff which made niale tho same rates from front Chicago to Portland as a are ao fo maintain maintained ed by b tho the Hill lines hInes from front Chicago to Seattle and Incorporated a provision to tile tho effect that any passenger or could by ly applying to tho the conductor on the tho Oregon Railroad Navigation com corn lino line secure a free rec side trip front from rom Portland to Seattle This move was countered by tho the Burlington who sent a representative to the commission to ask If H It would bo be e allowed to lo file such a tariff from St Louis LOllIs to Portland with a free ser service vice tIce side sl e trip to Seattle The com commission commission commission mission thought not but hut declined to issue a ruling It being stated that It hud lied decided to take up UI mo me question and amid go fully Cully Into It The Tho law gives the commission tao right to order through routes where good and satisfactory routes do not noL exist |