Show INTELI TITE insua I 1 er ike Cala minjon as 4 its i deses laborda Labor dr W 11 maTON NOT 30 athe an nual report of the interstate inter state cam mission is now in tape from it the following Is taken the befit in formation now available the railroad mileage of the country on the of I 1 june iam Is estimated at miles at 2312 miles h been comp ted and brought into opera tion within the six man preceding that day A summary is made of the formal complaints of tile cases submitted 50 have been decided six not yet decided in nine ilia hearing in not completed 23 ere withdrawn or settled ten suspended by request nine assigned for hearing As to the long and short haul in the of country north of the cand ohio and east of tho the cases in a greater charge is made for shorter transportation are low and their circumstances we ouch that the complaint is not often add that they operate oppressively with some exceptions resulting from mean competition the rule of a short haul of the S law has been put in tome upon the i roads where its oper allon and effect can be observed under ireat now appear to be favorable coni dilious dit ious in tue southern and south A states the commission has lad reason to giblak the carriers were moving more lit bringing their into conformity with the gon I 1 than in other eions not being satis duty has teen sufficiently apprehend od and the coul mission has orde reit an to be made of the whole subject the port then takes up the 61 I 1 fact ofas ur ante commerce act an cc carriers and says 10 th some rid broad I 1 n gorf declared it to have had I 1 agu bg effect the commission Is t the ej no evidence showing 1 coneria result has been otherwise L than beneficial Asil road business I 1 has r ej strike new I 1 unes and with ri ference to rate wars inthe northwest and among the trunk lines during the year a report says f ly the cam in rate wars the trunk iines from suspicions on the part of carriers respectively that their competitors were cutting the open rates andre were made to freight which the parties to the agreement was their due but which they were not gettin because of others the efforts of the commission to catbe prati cos suspected has been wholly and the war of rates proceeds without the lity 4 external authority F interposing to bring it to an end the making of un reasonably low rate a ahe report test is often fol r stock jobbing purposes or to ampel the purchase of e a road by competing lines persons having coit rolof railroads may do 0 1 make insufficient rates in I 1 1 expectation to be indirectly A and improperly derived every cam of war may be regarded at I 1 I 1 out ot this character chir acter are sacrificed OD A bation that by I 1 I 1 X a or forcing agres on sola matter 0 r aaion the will in time be of caute mader in tle balij arity thin ap I 1 more exceed the 1 tho losses of such cuss I 1 I 1 gains the statute not conferred tipon tile commis stion any power to I 1 order any increase of rates which 10 it I 1 are at can see general there foret it may beskid chat t railroad managers PO 88 power t 14 i destroy the interests no t only of their I 1 but of their own ero they bill recklessly make rates that lead lo 10 bankruptcy and the question aten becomes of moment 1 it is wiser to meet the re 1 ir bether deuced rates of X competitor or let the f yet the decision of this I 1 I 1 r deft by im lines I 1 n A he bar oh of subordinates who ap I 1 tire n ti have no other W 11 1 tb the very cut emust be promptly met nothing more surprising than the fact that a railroad manager neither take insteps by law to stop to the secret cutting of rates which he publicly charges nor furnish evidence ovi dence upon others may do so ill nevertheless sacrifice for his a bare holders millions of to punish it to promote the unity of rat road 11 a it is reasonable the public shall find an arrange meat with one adequate for the purpose of any single transaction there should be some mean a of enforcing among CA aers the obligations moral or lerr gal that would grow out of such arrangements range ments the tendency among the railroads seems likely to be in the direction of consolidation as the only means of mutual protection against rate but anything equivalent to the creation of what Is now cally denominated as trusts coal A hardly be helni sible even if the parties libery to form it at pleas twe lacking co of the rail roads can do much towards bette r re lations among themselves the need nf abis is imperative in all cutting of rates the party beginning it apkes charges of ansin nations al its competitors carriere Carri tre cutting rates have proclaimed that the reduced rates were nothing but what could be justly demanded when tj ra shaving experience now e enca in such rates won id lead d pi r 7 aate t to bankruptcy observer Is compelled to say that such methods do not belong to the present a while the Is not at aids time 1 I gla aaion at towards the establish at and of relations b a tw eon carriers that shall better sub serri interest than those which am commil h it must nevertie I 1 oze to the possibility of of that nature becom ing at some time imperative Imperi tive unless a grobl improvement fit existing conditions 14 voluntarily transportation Is con rad ons facts which W vre do ed upon the two invests gi lations held in new in view of all the the commission aiace larger t ban castle bardea train which those not legitimately con necked with shall be elc e ed interior lines should have agents there on an equal footing the payment at commissions for routing immigrants sod forero curium the shipment of from foreign countries should be do C lared illegal and made punishable the commission have howerto area these objects cannot be fally by the feder A government taking complete control at the whole subject tle subject of over ton is recognized as exceedingly important iz but it is belie ved it can only handled gradually and in of tail false bill visions against there are ing clat to a weighing or report preferences oi adva the commies com on be alieves t gaage 6 penal provisions aga abt wrongs of this nature should embrace alao the owner of the property or any the owner or con acting or party rha I 1 be who of the arty ingnor art unlawful conduct party to any gu I 1 that the commission suggests rhe thus I 1 raided be by ex question provision oin estion of construction press ought also to be settled legislation order to take afaf by through on which certain the pru be local line tines are now cl singed to and ahr ough lines are now in tact in fa ot and claimed fo be lines through lines only in AP arance commission thinks if A ij ine 19 in the line b I 1 reason of owner through fact a corporation controlling it the ship not to be at libert F to make ought decline th make through rate I 1 or to the on them at pleasure joint tariffs and through itt and recommend that carriers engaged dently in inter aa the eruc r ver il Is so and other navigable bg ijan the sam 0 waters of taig country footing with lutar stats carriers vy 1 I 1 |