Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION. [ARTICLE]

THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturers will appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission from the classification of certain specialties made by the Trunk-Line Commission at a recent meeting held in Now York. T. H. Barrett, President of the State Farmers’ Alliance of Minnesota, transmits to the Commission a long list of requests by the Executive Committee of the Alliance, looking •to a vigorous enforcement of the interstate commerce law, especially that part rela tng to the long and short hank The Alliance takes the ground “that such business interests as can be sustained only by reason of the suspension of the fourth section ought not to be sustained at alb It is better that the business of Jhe country be loft to the natural law of trade than that a few favored persons in certain places should be able to organize and carry on colossal enterprises because of advantages in the use of the railways of the country.” A complaint has also been received from William H. Council, colored, directed against the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company, in which he avers that on account of his color he was forcibly ejected from a first-class car after having paid for a first-class ticket Ha asks that the comm ssion award him #25,000 damages and such other relief as it may deem proper. There are well-founded rumors that the Inters ate Commerce Commission will interpret the law Tinder winch it acts as permitting roads to make special rates at points wh -re there is water competition. The expression in the law, “under substantially similar circumstances and conditions,” will, it is believed, be construed to permit this reduction of rates at these competing points on the theory that the “circumstances and conditions” there are not “substantially similar” to those at places where there is no competition by a class of carriers not subject to this law.