Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 17, 1913, Page 1

T i e s i i .to enter into fair competition with HE AUTHOR -TELLS OF DISTANCE TARIFF| Senator Cashman Tells of Rate Dis- Criminations ‘in- This State and " Effect of His Proposed Law. BAPS THE ST. PAUL JOBBERS Says There are Mills and Factories in Other Places Than the Twin Cities and Bcores Beek. CITES: CASE OF PRINT PAPER 1 Freight From Mill to Fergus Falls is $.22 per 100, While Cost to Min- neapolis is $.10. St. Paul, Jan. 17.—Senator T. E. Cashman of Owatonna, author of the Cashman distance tariff bill, gave out a statement Saturday in answer -to the arguments of business men.and railroad men agalnst ' the measure. M?. Cashman asserts that. his bill, with the distance tariff. rates of Iowa added to it by the rallroad commis- sion, will result in a general equal- izing and in most cases a reduction of rates in Minnesota, and put an-end to’discrimination. * Mr. Cashman be- &glns by challenging the statement thilt the "present conditions force shbrt-)lne rates upon the longer lines a3 a maximum at Intermediate sta- m:’;ns, thus securing points luwer rates than their mileage dis- tauce would give them. ‘“This statement is anything but these VOLUME .10. NUMBER 249. PRINCE CAROL. Crown Prince :of Rouma " Whose Engagement is Rumore kind of paper is shipped from Inter- national Falls to St. Paul, a distance of 334 miles, at ten cents a hundred. The man residing at Fergus Falls can- not understand why he should pay a |rate of six cents on.cut stone, curb- ing"and street paving from St. Cloud, a distance of 113 miles, when - the same material is shipped seventy-five miles into St. Paul at.a rate of 3.5 cents a hundred.* He cannot under- .| that rate on that commodity for a ninety-nine.’ lave & square deal. “It might,not be -mhi at this time to explain. somé of the features of| ™= The dfiunc« tariff bill com- |’ the bill, pels a railroad ‘company to charge the same rate per:ton per mile for the same distance on:all commoditie lhlpped within the state. In other words, it they cl arge a low rate on one plrt‘ot their system on a eemin commodity for a certain n\xmher of miles they will have to intain like distance, ox_ua]it in special caseg where two roads run into'the same mileage than the other,”in ‘which case the railroad and warehouse com- | mission Would be authorized to per- mit the company :shippifig -in 'the ‘roundaboit way to compete with the shorter line if they saw fit." " ‘This Jowa law does not name rates but authorizes the ocmmission to name maximum and: reasonable rates-and the state. The companies may charge any rate up to the 'maximum, but as stated. before, if they name a lower Tate on one part of their system that tained on all parts. : “A great many people are under the impression that the Towa dis- tance tariff law compels railroad companies to charge the same rate per ton per mile, regardless of :what the distance may be, thereby work- ing a hardship on the companies for consumed in loading, switching and 80 on. Then again if 'the rates were a fixed price per ton per mile, re- 'gardless of what the distance might be, a man shipping or receiving from to classify all ‘goods shipped within|" ' same rate- would -have -to he main- 3 a short haul on account: of the time| true,” gaid Mr. Cashman. “The facts are that -the short-ling . -rates - he- twoen Owatonna. and ‘the twin cities and Waseca and the twin citles are nude very high in - order to allow tne Ghicago & North-Westérn rail- way to compete with theé Chicago & Milwaukee and Minneapolis & St. Lbuis railways, hauling 122 miles by a clrcuitous route around by way of Mankato. . At -present the people of Owaton- na and Waseca pay a rate of ten cénts per 100 on wheat and flax that they sibp into the twin cities. Un-: der the Iowa law they would pay but 7i1 cents per 100, They now pay nine cents per 100 on corn, eats and bErley, while under the Iowa law: they .would pay out but 5.8 cénts. Then now pay nine tents per 100 on lumbér shipped from' the twin cities, while .under the provisions of the Towa distngce tariff they would pay but 6 1-2 cents. If the people of Meriden were compelled to ship their wheat to Minneapolis.their rates per 100 on wheat would now be 10 cents, While under. the Iowa law it would be 8 1-2 cents...lnder the lowa law. they ‘would, pay 6.6 cents per 100 on lpmber instead of nine they now pay; 10.4 on fat cattle instéad of twelve they now pay. The Janesville, Smiths Mills*® and Eagle Lake rates ‘would be some less because their mil- eage -is somewhat shorter: % Hits at Sanborn Decision: % “Like all.public_questions, the dis- tance tariff has two sides, and._can be looked upon from two viewpoints, the one from the railroad compan- ies who find .it more profitable to build up a_business ‘that will cen- tralize business, draw the people to one center and give them an excuse fo exact exorbitant rates which will Pay dividends on: inflated values and watered stocks—and their excuse is often substantiated by some judge who will decree that a dividend of deven per cent is‘just-on these inflat- 4d valuations; the’ other . from the viewpoint of the man ‘who: desires|. equitable freight-rates to enable:him his more wealthy competitor. i “The manufacturers and jobbers of the twin cities enjoy.a very low rate on lumber and how about their little competitors-out in the country dis- tricts. The people in Fergus Falls, Moorhead, Marshall, Mankato, Owa- tonna and other’ ' ber. They, tdo, would: like & lower rate. : 4 Gites Case of Print Paper. “The man. who. uses:paper-at Fer- -~ gus: Palls:cannot understand why he should have to pay. thlrty-flu'so .cen a‘bundred on.a carload of paper. from International Falls into his town, a gistance of 296 miles, when the same stand why he should have to pay thirteen cents a hundred on polished stone and monuments when the twin city man has a rate of seven cents. The miller in Alexandria cannot un- derstand why his-Minneapolis com- petitor can ship flour into his terri- tory at Ogema, a distance of 230 miles and compete with him at the same rate for .a hundred-mile haul. The man residing at Kennedy, Minn., cannot -see why he should be com- pelled to pay a rate of 15.5 capts a hundred on lumber shipped from Park Rapids, 21.8 miles, when the Minneapolis, man .has a rgte of 8.5 cents for the Mr Cashman cites numerous other parently concluded “that”they have rate comparisons-in: his statement, (made & secious mistake'and that it which'1s too long to be reproduced |18 not wise for them to fight the in- entire, He continues: terests of the commonwealth any “In making their arguments the|longer. ~The St. Paul jobbers_ ap- railroad attorneys tell us that in such | pear to be either slow in catching on pmgg as St. Clair, Minn., located on|or they cannot control the head of- a stub running morth from Albert|ficers of the Greater 'Commercial Lea, will be severely injured if plac-|club as it is called.- At any rate we el on a distance tariff. In comput-|find Mr. Beek . before us uttering ing the distance they, of course, start |cries. of despair and .attempting to at St. Paul and Minneapolis and try |make the best of a forlorn hope. to make us forget that there are oth-|Last week Mr. Sheehan of the er markets in these and other states | Northwestern railway had the fol- ‘where wheat is ground, where barley [lowing to say before. our railroad is bought, where pork is slaughtered |committee: ‘That the railroads are and.cured. The Albert Lea miller [less interested in the measure than can take care of the St. Clair man’s|the people are, that the inevitable wheat and pay-as high a price as he|effect of.the bill. will be to increase would obtain. if it were shipped to|railroad rates in Minnesota. . ‘We Minneapolis and ~would be much |are not asking for higher rates,” said more successful if he could do this|he, ‘but any change,must mean an without .being compelled to compete |advance.” with- his powerful competitors, the| -“Let us figure out if we-can 1““ mills from the twin cities. The pack=|how Mr. Sheehan could base. this ing houses at Austin buy most of the |conclusion. In order to find his hogs raised in that teritory, which is|basis we must study the bill. . What a diréct-line from St. Clair at the]does it provide? It simply. provides present time, and Chicago ‘gets most|that the railroad companies shall not of the beef and livestock. Is there|charge a higher rate on a given.com- anything that the good people-of St.|modity for a certain distance to one Clair need in the mercantile and groc-(Mman than to another regardless of ery line that they cannot procure at|how influential or important this the jobbing house in Albert Lea? man’ mishthbe This bill does not 0 5 name freight rates but simply au- Rich Man is Favored. thorizes the railroad commission to “The_trouble here in Minnesota is{ classify freight and make a reason- that-the rich man living in the fav-}able maximum rate.” Now should ored centers gets the very low rate.|the Iowa law Dbe placed upon our sta- He is the man' that'is subsidized, so|tute books, we have a right to ‘ex- to speak. The man who is able to|pect that the Minnesota commission take ‘care of himself is given an ad-| will ‘be as fair to the ‘shippets and vantage over his less fortunate neigh- | réceivers as well as the railroads, as bor and if anything arises to disturb | were the Towa commission when they this condition, one of the penalties|named the rates in the latter state. that seems to be imposed upon such|The only way that Mr. Sheehan can men is that they defend the railroad|figure out that the rates will be companies’ interests. I would ' be|raised to the country shipper is that ashamed to admit that I could not-do|he expects.the railroad commission to business unless. subsidized by the|permit the raiiroads to dictate what railroad companies. It is.the same|the rates will be and I am satisfied | old story, one man benefited and|that the companies will be' given no nine hundred and ninety-nine injur- | such opportunity. - ~No-- commission ed. I stand for the nine sundred and { would dare do such a thing.” -~ (reat long distances would be discrimin- ated against, As I said before, the fixing of rates is left to the commis- sion and they can’ name any ~ just rate they see fit. Minneapolis Jobbers Wise. “Two ‘years more have rolled ‘around and we find the demand for « . distance “tariff - still - increasing every day. The Minneapolis jobbers and manufacturers have.found that they have lost considerable business by -continuing to assist the rail- roads. from pulling their - chestnuts own, -one ‘having ' ‘a much shorter |’ || FIRE AT THE tfiewmsm School of Mines Building Completely Gutted Friday Night as kemlt of Minneapolis, Feb. 1 ‘Ire, which started from crossed | el¢ the position.|o; dlscovgrsd .at 9:30:p. m. Prhiny by R. Stam, inside watchman who smelled smoke:when he entered ‘the building and found flames shooting from the openings = around steam pipes. 0. Tverberg, outside watch- man, ran two blocks to a fire alarm box- and the alarm was received at headquarters at 9:26 p. m. By 10 'p. m. eighteen fire companies were on the gcene and flames were shooting through the roof. An hour later the building was & wreck. The loss is placed at $97,700. % The pressed brick walls were left standing, but the big slate roof fell in. "The smelting building, near by, was saved after a hard battle. As- sistant. Chiet S8andy Hamilton and thirteen firemen narrowly escaped death when the gable of the roof fell in. the wreckage, surrounded by blazing debris, but by pouring a steady stream of ‘water on one point they cooled & narrow section sufficiently- to permit them to climb to a point from which they were- rescued by their comrades with ladders. ° It was feared for a time that valu- able maps of the Minnesota iron flelds, which could not have been duplicated except:by a survey, had been destroyed, but the maps were later found intact in the big steel vault on the main floor. The school library, a small one, was. destroyed. The fire was spectacular and was witnessed by many hnndreda of stu- dents. The board of regents met at 10 a. m. today to comnsider rebuilding .plans and it i8 expected an immed- jate request to the legislature for necessary funds will.be formulated at that time. President George E. Vincent said today that ‘a’request for $25,000. for re-wiring ‘buildings. and installing sprinkler systems was included in the university budget now in the leg- islature and declared that if = this work had been done previously the “tengineering building could ' have -Scoop, Wonderful lntellect Brains, & Canty Move , BUZZ WAGON | FAR ONE, IF Nou WiLL) - AMOTHER. INCH-WERE. OUT OF- mo\.mg-l.usww: &0 Lz mmme M'W Nafartive PAamsa THE LOSS IS PLACED AT $87,700 They were left in the center of | KREKRER KKK RRK KK KK * LATEST WAR NEWS. x By United Press. New York, Feb. 17.—An appeal against Intervention by the United States and expressions of confidence inthe ability of Mexico to weather the political storm - without -foreign the United States today through the United Press by Francigsco de la Barra. El Paso, Texas, Feb. 17.—All cat- tle owned. by the Madero family in border today‘ This action is consfd- ered -significant. as indica the family expects the dp the Francisco Madero govemmen: The Madero family was raised in Mexico. The number of. cattle it owns is enormous. The same . dis- patch stated that the Madero family at Chihuahua City was headed. by Alberto Madero. The president’s brother has completed arrangements to.rush his family ;and stock to the American borders .should such a movement prove necessary. ‘Washington,. Feb. 17.—President Taft this afternoon made public a formal note sent to Madero afirming the good will of the United: States in reply to the Mexican president’s pro- testations against intervention. The Taft note, in & brief document of about 300 words, does not men- tlon the word intervention nor does it state, on the contrary, that the United States is not considering such a step. been done previously the engineering building ‘could have been saved: eas- ily. Dean W. R. AppleBy said that the fire would not seriously discommode the school, as classes would assemble temporarily at the general experi- mental building. There are 140 min- ing students. The valuable mining furnaces and rare collection of ores in the destroy- ed building were only nughtly dam- aged. Carlton Dane, a brother of ‘Harold Dane and nephew of F. S. Lycan, of Bemidji, was passinig the building at the time tue.fire was discovered and went into the basement with several others to cover chemicals with tar- paulins and save such apparatus as could be taken from - the building. The boys stayed in the building too long and were taken out through the basement windows a moment be- fore the slate roof fell through. KEREKKK KKK KKK KK KKK ald were the key notes of a special message addressed :to the people of Chihunhua, num ering nurly a mil- WATCH FOR THE EXTRA Fioneer Special Edition Will Be on Street Wednesday Morning if Votes are Counted. mmmsmcnmm'” In order that Bamldjl readers of e the correct tion Tuesday night and” it’ will: be delivered by the carrier’ ‘boys ‘early Wiednesday morning.” This extra will be given to regular subscribers.free of charge. Readers. wishing to get this paper should be sure to take it fn from the porch as soon as it is delivered. If the ballots are counted before 5 a. .m., the Pioneer will be able to have a-paper to evary subucriher by 7a m. Extra co»ies of the extra be obtained from the carrier boys, the Pioneer office, the Abercrombie and KRR IR KKK KKK ¥ N. M. D. A. Callers Last Week, * LR E SRS R RS RE SRS 8 &Y Oliver Halvorson, Nevis. “J. J. Opsahl, Bemidji. Mr. Sjoberg, Roseau. Wm. F. Blakely, Farley. J. L. Wold, Twin Valley. P.B. Gaass, Red Lake Falls. “R. P. Morton, Princeton. V. N. Higinbotham, Red Lake Falls, Geo. J. Silk, Pine River. P. A. Christianson, Hinckley. H. E. Anderson, Bemidji. C. H. Knopke, Bemidji. George Kinney, Bemidji. G. L. West, 8t. Cloud, Minn. J. B. Black, Bemidji. A. E. Witting, Blackduck. M. N. Koll, Cass Lake. J. H. Halvorson, Nevis. H. H. Hulbert, Stephen. tle ed W. iar. ‘Washington, Feb. 17.—State de- martment officials today safd that dispatches- indicated that within the next forty-eight hours either Diaz or. Madero would control the govern- ment. Weeks of incessant fighting has declmltad the supply of ammuni- BY “HOP“ Cri) Jr., ‘._,"P'"Fm"hn.m.n Smythe, J. F. F‘ll!rllldl,l—xlflll.‘ mihy s employment oflu—J} udges Wm.!ocm. LF.Joh-l,! 8 €. Bailey, T. W. Boll. Joe Bisiar, J. . Omich. -C. C. Crippen, J. Peterson, Jr. H. A. Simons, John Gibbons, H. 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