OCR Text |
Show ACTSi OFFERS HOPE, SAYS LOVE No Attempt to Take Advantage of Long and Short Haul Clause. Salt Dike. Nov. 22.-Teleqrai.hlc inf'rniatlun to th effei t that the Southern and Southeastern Mississippi Mississip-pi alley Frelfiht angu lations have usreed oa the long jd.1 short haul clauses as specific in amendments to the ltitertate traffic ;nv added at the pr"'ci-il session of the Slxtv-flm concresa, through the action of Salt Lake, I'enver and Omaha traffic associations, as-sociations, means Hint these associations associa-tions will not Die excf,ptionH to the rate as laid down ,y the interstate commerce commission says S. II. l.oe, president of the Commercial Clnh Traflic bureau. Freicht carriers were piven until February 17 to fib' with the rnmmls-slixi rnmmls-slixi exceptions to the long and fhort haul clause. They are .then I his opportunity to tatc In what cases they would ask to be relieved of the provisions of the clause IMscriminal Ion en the part of the railroads Ln favor of San Francisco in rates Inspired ihe- flpht wihlcli wa- uajred by lh" traffic bureaux f th'MM three rides. The 9alt Lake bu-. reau took tin- initial step. Tin- mo Mate commerce commission ioi; evidence evi-dence here In Scpt m1ier iin. uph ld the Salt. Lnko-Pcnver-Omaha contentions. conten-tions. The result was thnt out "f commodities inCstl(;atcd, on 70 per cent nf thorn the rai-s wen- n u .. .1 to exactly the same as tho i'h!o-. San Francisco rate; 21 per cent was reduced 10 to ir per cent, while fnnr jier cent was nut altered. Ftegardins the four per cent, the bureau entered an amended mm-I mm-I plaint with fonuniajsloncr Prouty, asking that the Pacific co.it rati-be rati-be made effective in these remaining cijnimodll les and received the pracli-c.Tl pracli-c.Tl assurance from the commissioner that In the Investigation which c log-ed log-ed September t". the board had de-cld'-d upon that action find that Ihe matter wo.Md be taken en In the near future by the commission. "If the Southern j-ml -ril heaslern Mississippi Valley Freight associations associa-tions view the matter In the same light a the commission does," said Presient Love lat night, "we bav Eronnd for hope thaf the Trans Mln-souri Mln-souri assocl it Ion, which includes l-tacticnlly all Mm-s nperatlng west of the .Missouri river, will do like-wise." |