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Show uv HEARING IS HELD ON UTAH FREIGHT RATES Salt Lake Oct, ':8. L ' Flvnn. special examiner for the interstato commerce c.mmivqion. yesterday heard evidence submitted in the ease of the sair inuo Mattress ft Manufat lurinc; coinpan1 :nui others aRainst : ihe Atchison, Topeka & Santa Pel Railroad companj and others. Including Includ-ing In all 15 defendant companies. Tlte bearing wa6 in regard to the alleged al-leged excjM ratr- charged on cotton cot-ton llnters from Oklahoma. Texas and other southern points to S.ilt Lake City, It was concluded yesterday yester-day The railroads submitted carload 'rates for the consideration of th.-j th.-j commission and the plaintiffs. It was emended by witnesses for the complainants th3t the fieiKhi rates charged erp discriminator against the Utah manufacturers. I Among the principal wltnes es for the complainants was .1 R Valentine Ipreslden: of ihe Utah Bedding i Mnufacturlng company He testified that not only were eastern manufacturers manufac-turers given an advantage over those j of the Intermountain states, bul that Denver manufacturers were given a; decided advantage bv the rate' Among the wltn isses fi'T the defense de-fense were S V. Herrah assistant general freight agent for the Denver j & Rio Grande ami the Western Pa Ciflc; D R. Gray, assistant general' freight agent for the Oregon Snort ( Line; J. C. Burnett, assistant general freight agent for the Atchison. To- I neka Santa P nrwi c p rviwiir, assistant general freight agent for j the Fort Worth & Denver City Rail-i Rail-i way company The witnepses lor the railroad com- panics testified thai carload rates for cotton llnters were unusual, but such rates were offered The evidence ' was taken under advistJipsnl by In-Ispector In-Ispector Flvnn. and it is probable that ' no definite result will be reached for j several months. The rates for car-I car-I load lot. as proposed by the represen tathes of the raildoad companies are $11 7 a hundredweight for cotton llnters compressed in bales. $1.27 for cotton llnters compressed by the far : riers. or at their expense, and i ::7 j for cotton llnters not compressed Rates- now In effect for the Bame material are $1 36 for cotton (inters compressed in lles.. $1.45 for that , compressed by the carrier, and $1.00 j for that not compressed. |