Show The New DelI CHICAGO May GIn connection with transcontinental meeting a morning paper says In their arguments for the suspension of the long and shorthaul section of the InterState law the transcontinental roads claimed that the suspension of that section in favor of the Pacific coast lines was necessary neces-sary in order to enable them to meet the competition of the Pacific Mail and the Canadian Pacific There can be no doubt that this plea induced the Commission to temporarily suspend section 4 Having gained their end tho managers of the California fornia roads now engaged in the scheme to stop competition by the Pacific Mail and Canadian Pacific by inducing them to join the combination the maintenance uniform rates Pooling is not permitted by the now law and a division of earnings cannot therefore be made but those wily managers have hit upon a plan which will if successful subserve the same purpose as if they were pooling the business Instead of allowing the Pacific Mail andCanadian Pacific a certain percentage of the traffic or paying a subsidy in cash the proposition now is to allow them to make such differential differ-ential rates to and from the Pacific Coast points as will insure them the same amount of traffic as if they were guaranteed a percentage per-centage or given a subsidy In fact the California roads propose to reorganize the Transcontinental Association upon substantially sub-stantially the same basis except that the pooling featureis eliminated |