Show A Royal Alliance WASHINGTON June 8All the InterStato j Commerce Commissioners except Chairman Cooley were present todays session E N Taft counsel for Sutton c C of New York representing the clipper ship lines read a statement in opposition to tho application of the transcontinental railroad lines to bo released from the operations of section four In referring to what he understodd to be the agreement between the transcontinental transcon-tinental lines and the Pacific Mal Steamship Company to endeavor to gecnre the suspension of section four Taft said George Gould is a prominent candidate for the Presidency of one of these lines so that the relations between the companies promise prom-ise to resemble a marriage between royal families A illustrating the nature of the I competition which tho clipper lines are compelled l to meet Taft produced a f tooreei Taour I tariff sheet of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific Railroad offering to take freights fir California from several hundred interior eastern cities and towns at tho through rate charged from New York to California He said that this virtually amounted to a rebate to these points I the clipper lines took freight from Newhnrg for California they would require tho shipper ship-per to pay charges from the interior town to New York City |