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Show mm OF FREIGHT ; RATE IS FOR THIS I REGION SALT LAKE, Nov. 7. With the railroad rail-road administration and the railroads themselves represented bv one of the largest gatherings of high transportation transporta-tion officials that Salt Lake has seen in many months i nd the shippers ri p resented hy counsel for state comniis-l sions and civic bodies from seven dif ferent states, the stage was set yesterday yes-terday for the opening of a hearing this morning before examiners of the interstate commerce commission on the granting of proportionate distance rates on commodities from eastern points to intermountain points. Both the railroad men and the! freight traffic experts of the various I parti' s initiating the complaint held I continuous conferences esterd-.'. in I preparation for the actual opening of ( the proceedings in thp federal building j before Federal Examiners Henry Thnr tell and Harris Flemin The Traffic Service Bureau of Utah ill f l tror u l n youuvu - i imri 1:11 1 i in fur the transportation department of the Salt Lake Commercial club supporting sup-porting the allegations of the com i plaint. The bureau will be ;epre sented by Stephen H i ove, president; W S McCarthy, vice president, and! H. W. Prickett. manager. The complaint will be presented by F B Campbell, attorney for the Inter mediate Rate association After the presentation of the complaint will: come the presentation of evidence, reports re-ports and documents In support oj ihe allegations of the complaint. When tin evidence in behalf ol the complaint han been presented, the railroads, through counsel, will give their side of, the case. It is knowl that the evidence for submission by the complainants con-1 Blsts of many pounds of rate sheets.1 of diagrams, maps and other material Which Will be used to support the contentions con-tentions of the complainants that the "director general of railroads Is maintaining to all said intermountain j sections commodity rates which are j unreasonable, unjusi and discriminatory," discrimina-tory," to use the language of the com-1 plaint itfielf.' It is the old story of the difference i in rate for long and short hauls. Concessions Con-cessions have been made to Inland points during the past year, and rati B that were once higher to Salt Lake' ami i -niim n i"i imiiiim iimmii front the eastern points for the same commodities than were the rates to the Pacific coast were cut to the point whefQ the freight charges to Salt Lake were at least no more than to the Pacific Pa-cific coast cities. T! " Intermediate Rate association asks nu thai proportionate rates be granted which will give the intermountain inter-mountain points the benefit of their I c B86T distance from the eastern point-;. The complaint petition?, that: "All transcontinental commodity rates from all eastern defined terrl tory to said intermountain territory and to other Urritor in which the same rate is charged from eastern de fined territory as to the Pacific roast shall br- granted, taking into consider at ion the distance of the haul so that all shippers and receivers of freight in all localities In the said lntermoun'ain territory shall have reflected in their rates the benefit of their geographi cal location. 'That joint through class rates be; established from all territory east of I Chicago to all territories in Montana Idaho. Utah. Wyoming and New M-x-j ico and all other intermountain territory terri-tory where said joint through class rates are now not maintained, and for such other and further relief as to the commission may seem just and reasonable." reason-able." oo |