Show IT iSJOvSu s I The Report of the loss of the Steamer Scythiaqf r the Canard Ca-nard Line a Mistake A Northwestern BlizzardThe Fire Destroyed Delmoute Hotel The Wheat Crop The InterState Commission Encounters Encoun-ters Difficulties at the Very Outset of Its Work InterState Commission WASHINGTON April 4Yr Dolph presented pre-sented a memorial from the Board of Trade of Walla Walla W Tin relation to high charges The memorial is a prayer for relief in time to save this years crop from exorbitant freight cl < urges Senator Dolph also presented a memorial from the Board of Trade of Portland Or in relation to the short and long haul feature fea-ture In the memorial is set forth the advantage ad-vantage which Portland has enjoyed as compared com-pared with interior points by reason of her position upon the coast water lines They say they have fixed rates and railroad lines have followed closely enough to prevent exclusion ex-clusion from traffic The Canadian Pacific they further represent built and supported by the British Government for the purpose of holding and extending British commerce to detriment of American interests is another element of the question The memoralists say they are now assured that the true meaning of the law is such as to forbid the making of rates to coast points in competition competi-tion with those of water carriers and Canadian Cana-dian Pacific yet if the commission so interprets in-terprets the law they ask the prompt use of this dispensing power Congressman Butterworth of Ohio appeared with several gentlemen representing Rivers interests asking in their behalf an opportunity oppor-tunity to be heard in relation to matter presented pre-sented by the representatives of the Southern Association ern Railway and Steamship Saturday They were given copies of such documents as were filed by the railroad men and withdrew to consider what steps they would take A committee representing the Chamber of Commerce of Macon Georgia submitted sub-mitted an elaborately written argument argu-ment in support of the section for suspension of the interpretation of the long and short haul clause It embodied em-bodied a schedule showing that if it goes into effect the rates between Macon and northern points will be increased from eighteen to thirty per cent The sparsely settled condition of the south I and the deficiencies in many resources as I compared with the manufacturing centers I of the north and ieast were fully set forth the condi as matters which made tions substantially different from those which prevail between the east and west The declaration was made that if the interpretation now threatened had been foreseen when the bill was under consideration considera-tion the South would have opposed the measure unanimously |