Show OFFICIAL NOT satisfactory lomax regrets regret that the ruling prohibits free tickets to families of ministers omaha oct 16 upon commenting on the press dispatches from washington giving the substances of a series of orders issued by the interstate co commerce L commission relating to bothe the construction st 5 of section 6 of the recently a amended in ended interstate commerce law E L lomax general passenger agent of tho the union Paci pacific said we have not yet received an official ruling from the interstate commerce commission covering catering COT ering those these matters but have no doubt that tho the news from washington is authentic and that within a day or two we will receive from the commission circulars embodying their rulings I 1 regret to note that they have decided that the provisions of the act prohibit the issuance of free or reduced rate transportation to army and navy officers members of their fa families milles or the families of the clergy the union pacific with its related lines has maintained tho the position that it Is not an unjust discrimination to grant half rates to these classes although it Is true trite that other carriers have taken a different view in fact I 1 think the union pacific and its connections are the only roads that have bave made half rates to army officers and their families and to lo the families of clergy since the new law took look effect each time an army officer is transferred lie heis Is obliged to defray the expenses of moving his family from its his personal funds fund and since we have bave acquired our insular possessions those these transfers see seem rii to be remarkably kably frequent and involve long journeys where the railroad faro fare 1 Is expensive this buil business ness is not competitive and it Is a disappointment to me that the com commission misson has made a ruling which requires us to discontinue the present practice the same statement estrue of the families of clergy pl who are moved almost as frequently as a army officers |