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THE .MORrXG OREGOXTAX. FRIDAY, MARCH 13. 1908.
Y
HEW
LUMBER
RATES ARE WRONG
Wimbish's Able Argu
ment to Gommission.
EFFECT ON LUMBER INDUSTRY
Public Interest Demands Res
toration of Old Rates.
DESTROY LUMBER PROFIT
Advance, He Trclare, Means Death
Interests by Driving Them
From Markets Roads Made
Big Profit on Old Schedule.
WHV l.NCREASK IX RATB3 IS NOT
RII.HT
rtrlmemal to public interest by
closing down mill.
Drive Pacific Coast fir and spruce
out of Plains markets.
Roads earn handsome profits on ol
rates.
Advance ?s result of suppression of
competition.
Not Justified by increased cost of
operation.
Carriers may not demand mare
than a fair compensation for service
rendered.
Advance will more than absorb
profits of lumber manufacturers.
Create appalling forest waste in
cutting only high-grade timber.
orkgonmix Sews bureau, wash-
iriRton, Murcli 6. If thp IntrrstatR Com
merce Commission ilecldos the Pacific
Cuaat lumber rate case in favor of the
lumbermen and against the railroads, con
siderable credit for the victory will be
due W. A. Wimbish, of Atlanta. Ga.,
leading counsel for the Washington lum
bermen. In his closing argument before
Hie Commission. Mr. Wimbish made a
forceful presentation of the lumbermen
attack on the proposed advance, and
wove together the evidence In a way to
strengthen their contention that there is
no justification for Increasing the rate
on lumber shipped from the Pacific Coast
to the Missouri River territory and points
liast.
Mr. Wimbish, in opening, stated that
tile reasonableness of a rate depends
upon three considerations: Whether the
public interest is promoted or prejudiced
by the rate. This is paramount. Sec
ond, whether the customers can afTord to
pay the rate, and third, whether the rate
Is more or less than sufficient to enable
the carrier to earn a reasonable com
pensation for the service performed. Ho
declared that the increase in the lumber
rate could be assailed on all three
grounds. First, because it is detrimental
to the public Interest In that it lias closed
down most of the Pacific Coast mills,
throwing thousands of men out of em
ployment and making many of them pub
lic charges. Also because the Increase,
if enforced, would drive Pacific Coast
fir and spruce out of the markets of the
(iron! plains region, leaving that sec
tion at the mercy of the Southern pine
producers, who would then have a mo
nopoly and he able arbitrarily to raise
their own price. Second, he argued, the
rate was unjust because purchasers in
the Great Plains states could not afford
to buy Pacific Coast lumber at a price
eiual to the recent market price, plus the
lo cents increase.
Old Rates Profitable.
i?o to increase the price of Pacific Coast
fir and spruce would compel purchasers
in this competitive territory to turn to
Southern pine, which is considered of
substantially the same value as lumber
from the West. Mr. Wimbish contended.
In the third place, that the railroads
against which suit was brought, are all
earning handsome profits, both on lumber
and other traffic, and therefore are not
Justitied In boosting the lumber rate at
this time. If they were operating at a
loss, lie said, they should Increase all
rates, and not single out lumber, which
is a low-grade freight, carried at rela
tively low cost at comparatively no rLsk.
It might be true that lumber does not
yield as great a profit as higher gTades
of freight, but he contended that Ir. all
fairness to the lumbermen andi to the
purchasers of lumber, the railroads
should not require this commodity to
pay an unreasonable portion of the ex
pense of operation.
Mr. Wimbish qtioted from James J.
Hill to show that the old rate on lum
ber, when established, was not expected
to be a minimum rate: indeed. Mr. Hill
had led the Northwestern lumbermen to
believe that as time went on and traffic
increased with the growth of the North
west, that the lumber rate would be re
duced on this presumption, and with
this assurance, the lumber industry had
steadily expanded. Moreover, he argued
that when a rate has been long in force
and a large and Important traffic ha
moved under It. the rate is presumed to
be reasonable, and if the railroads seek
to Increase such a rate, they must justify
the advance. Moreover, he contended
that when a carrier has prospered under
a general schedule of rates, as have the
Hill and Harrtman Unas, particular rates
on a commodity constituting a large part
of the tonnage, which rates have been
long maintained, arc presumed to be re
munerative. Continuing his argument. Mr. Wimbish
said it was to be fairly presumed that
the old lumber rate, having been con
tinuously in existence since 1583, was suf
ficient fairly to compensate the railroads
for the service performed. Long ac
quiescence In this uniform rate is cogent
evidence that it is reasonable.
Railroad Contentions Denied. -
Mr. Wimbish then took up the con
tentions of the railroad companies, deny
ing in turn that the old rate was es
tablished to aid and encourage an infant
industry; that it was abnormally low
with regard to lumber rates in other
parts of the country; that lumber does
not bear its fair share of the burden of
transportation, and also denying that the
increase In operating expenses Justifies
a raise in the lumber rate, either because
the traffic can bear It. or because of the
empty-car haul westward.
The rates fixed in 1SS3. said Mr.
Wimbish. were established as the re
sult of wholesome competition. Rates
so established are presumed to be rea
sonable. The advance on November 1,
li07. was the result of a suppression
of competition, and must therefore be
presumed to be unreasonable. The in
crease was made uniformly by all the
Hill and Harrtman roads, and was an -bounced
simultaneously. It cannot be
doubted, said Mr. Wimbieh, that the
advance was the outcome of concert
of action and previous understanding
between the companies. Yet any un
derstanding' or combination, the ten
dencv of which Is to restrain competi-
tion beteween carriers, is unlawful.
and justifies the presumption that such
advances are unreasonable.
The presumption that the former
rate were reasonable necessarily im
plies that they afforded fair compensa
tion for the service performed. To
overcome this presumption, the carriers
must show the cost of the service; this
they havjp failed to do. and. in the na
ture of things, cannot do. The rates
on lumber, he said, are not too low,
but are. perhaps, relatively too high,
when compared with other traffic mov
ing from the Coast to transcontinental
destinations.
x North Bank Reduces Cost.
The increased cost of operation of
the railroads does not justify the ad
j vance in the lumber rate, said Mr.
t Wimbish. The congestion of traffic
which prevailed last year and which
contributed to the cost of operation,
has been relieved by the building' of
the North Bank Road, which will en
able the Hill lines more freely and
economically to handle their tonnage
to and from the Coast. Moreover, the
increased cost in the production of lum
ber has kcpt.paee with that in the cost
of transportation, and it would be no
"more fair to compel the lumber manu
facturers to pay the increased rate by
reducing the wages of their laborers
than it would be to compel the rail
roads to make a reduction In the rate
and compel them to take this reduction
out of the wages of their train crews.
At some length. Mr. Wimbish ex
plained why the lumber manufacturers
cannot bear the advance. Lumber and
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KAISER WII,Hf2L.M IS OHDKK TO IIHI..P jR Kt'O VC1L.1 ATIOV OF
GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN.
shingle mills in the Northwest have
generally closed down for want of
orders. The rail business is almost
completely paralyzed. Northwestern
lumbermen are not only deprived of
their more remote markets, but their
entire, product is thrown on the local
market, thereby causing demoraliza
tion of prices and business. It Is doubt
leas true that the railroads are also
suffering because of the general de
pression, but at such a time they
should lower their rates, thereby en
couraging larger tonnage for their own
benefit, and to revive a languishing In
dustry for the benefit of the public.
During the past several years, just
prior to the advance, both lumbermen
and railroads were prosperous, but the
evidence shows that the carriers were
the more prosperous. While, in excep
tional c-asefl and under especially favor
able conditions, some manufacturers of
lumber have accumulated considerable
fortunes, yet the net earnings from tha
industry as a whole have been nothing
like so great as those of the Hill and
Harriman roads.
Blow to the Industry.
This period of prosperity, however,
so far as the lumber manufacturers
are concerned, has passed away, he
added. Even if the lumber industry
was highly prosperous, this would af
ford no justification for an increase in
rates, which have been shown to be
reasonably high and compensatory.
That the carrier may not demand more
than a fair compensation for the serv
ice rendered. Is a thoroughly estab
lished principle of law.
As a matter of fact, said Mr. Wim
bish. the amount of the increase will
more than absorb the profits of the
lumber manufacturers. This advance
In rates represents a tax of $2.75 per
thousand feet on lumber, while the evi
dence shows that even the most pros
perous lumber manufacturers have not
realized and cannot realize any such
profit on their product. To permit the
advance would, therefore, not only de
stroy the profits of the business, but
would license the railway companies
to extort from the manufacturer the
workman, and the logger, a large share
of their gross earnings, if, indeed, the
business could survive any such condi
tions. It Is clear that the advance will shut
Pacific Coast flr and spruce, and other
species of lumber, out of the large
prairie region. Pacific Coast lumber,
under the higher rate, could no longer
compete In St. Louis. Chicago and De
troit. Not only would this occasion
great loss to the Pacific Coast manu
facturers, but it would deprive the pub
lic in those -markets of the competition
to which it is entitled.
The gravest result that will ' follow
this advance will be the appalling for
est waste rendered necessary to obtain
the high grades of lumber that might
bear the advance to Kastern markets.
Some mills might continue to operate,
even at a loss, depending for their
maintenance on this high-grade lumber,
but long continuance of such a waste
ful cutting of the forests would work
great ruin for generations to conic.
NEW MISSION TO INDIANS
Wealthy Matrons Back Work Among
Native II aces.
RENO. Nev.. March li A group of
millionaires wives, consisting of Mrs.
Bayard Cutting. Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt.
Mrs. W. J. Sloan. Mrs. Potter Palmer,
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt. Mrs. H. M. Clay
Twombley and Mrs. George Gould, have
organized a society for missionary work
among the Indians, under the direction
of Sybil Carter. Part of the work is to
be done in Nevada,
This afternoon Miss Jessie Hemenway,
representing the society, arrived here
from New York, to start the work of
teaching the Italian method of making
lace and Roman cut work among the In
dian workwomen of the Walker River
reservation. She says the education of
the native races along these lines has
been very successful so far. especially
among the Moquis of California.
BnwsHs. As ammiJments to the Cohro
b'H do not provide for suppressing the native
labor tux Radical and Socialists will oppose
the Conso annexation treaty.
Eya glasses $1.09 at Metsger
GULLS REBATES
BY ANOTHER NAME
Luce Admits Southern Pacific
Offense and Attempts
Defense.
BIG SHIPPERS GET FAVORS
lleduced Hates Knable San Fran
cisco Firms to Kill Ixcal Compe
tition in I.ns Angeles Secret
Grain Kate Fools Farmers.
SAX FRANCISCO. March "Rebat
ing is a term used for refunding below a
legal rate. W'c are not in that business.
We have done no rebating on state or
interstate business. We are vouchering
between a class rate and a legitimate
commodity rate."
This was the statement made today by
G. TV. Luce, general freight agent of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, during the
OK HAI-ES, WHO WILM, VISI'I
Investigation of the State Railroad Com
mission into the charges of rate discrimi
nation against that company, which was
resumed this morning. Mr.- Luce was on
the stand all day and was in turn inter
rogated by Attorney-General V. S. "Webb.
O. K. Cushing, attorney for the Califor
nia Traffic Association, and Peter F.
Dunne, representing the railroad com
pany. .
It was established that the Pacific
Hardware & Steel Company and. Baker
& Hamilton, of this city, had been
granted a half rate to Los Angeles to
fill orders from branch houses in compe
tition with Los Angeles firms. Mr. Luce
said that any other firm having branches
In that city would have been given the
same rate.
Encourage Crushing of Hock.
Asked by Mr. Webb why the E. B. &
I. Stone Company had been granted a
rate on the basis of H cent per ton per
mile on crushed rock from the stations
of Sather and Thomassen to all points
on the Pacific system, Mr. Luce said it
was done to encourage the industry and
with the understanding that the firm ship
;yo.000 tons during the year, or 1000 tons
a day. The general freight agent, how
ever, would not say that refunds were
made on shipments of less than 1000
tons a day, explaining that during 1005,
when this rate was in effect, the railroad
was often short of equipment and could
not furnish the necessary cars.
Mr. Luce then explained that the
Southern Pacific was "not in the rebate
business, but. vouchering between a class
rate and a legitimate commodity rate."
It developed that Simon Newman, a
grain-buyer and owner of warehouses
along the San Joaquin River, had been
given a special rate from points
along the river to San Francisco. Port
Costa and Sacramento approximately 8
per cent lower than the regular tariff
rates, which. Mr. Luce explained, had
been done to meet water transportation
competition. He admitted, however, that
no one else at those points enjoyed the
special rate given to Mr. Newman.
'Don't you believe In encouraging the
farmer?" asked Mr. Webb.
"Yea. sir; we do that all along our
lines," answered Mr. Luce.
Newman the Only Shipper.
The Attorney-General then endeavored
to establish the fact that the enjoyment
of the special rate gave Mr. Newman a
decided advantage over alt other buyers
and shippers from those points and that
the farmers, believing the price of wheat
to be based upon the published tariffs,
were being injured just that much. The
freight agent explained that, so far as
he knew, Mr. Newman was the only
buyer and shipper from those points and
that any other shipper would have been
given the same low rate to prevent him
from shipping by water.
The hearing will be resumed tomorrow
morning.
Effort to Make Vmatilla Dry.
PRNDLETON, Or., March 12. (Special.)
At a meeting of the local-option work
ers in this city today, it was decided to
give the people of Umatilla County a
chance to vote upon the proposition of
local option for the entire county at the
coming election. At the meeting there
were representatives from practically
every precinct In the county, and it was
the unanimous sentiment that local op
tion would carry, although the proposi
tion was defeated last year by S00 votes.
Petitions were drawn up and have al
ready been sent out for circulation. A
plan of campaign was agreed upon, and
will be waged unceasingly from now on
until after the election.
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New Spring
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Our showing of new Spring Millinery, in Street and
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this popular price, is an inducement for buying
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