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HORSEMENTO HAVE HEARING Efforts of Railroads Demanding Fare for More Than Two Attend ¬ ants Before I C C in June LEXIXGTON Ky May 2G At cither Washington or Atlantic City on June 29 an examiner for the Interstate Commerce Com ¬ mission will hear testimony and arguments in the matter of the attempt on the part of the American Railway Express Co and the railroads of the United States intervening to require shippers of race horses to pay fares i for all attendants in excess of two with car ¬ load shipments of race horses horsesFor For so many years that it would be diffi ¬ cult to say the number it has been the custom in the principal shipping territory to carry without fares six men to each carload Two years ago there was a hearing on this question and it was established by the Thoroughbred Horse Association that six at ¬ tendants are needed especially in sixdoor cars and the Interstate Commerce Commis ¬ sion directed that six be carried in all teri tory east of the Mississippi River and north of Georgia the territory in controversy controversyRecently Recently the shippers of polo ponies and show horses made a move before the Inter ¬ i state Commerce Commission for six attend ¬ ants with their horses in carload lots the j country over The express company and the railroads countered by publishing a new supplement to its tariff and announced that effective from June 7 only two attendants would be carried free with each carload of race horses The Thoroughbred Horse Asso ¬ ciation protested this and secured a suspen ¬ sion of the new order until October 5 Mean ¬ while the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a consolidation of the two proposi ¬ tions The hearing of the polopony show horse matter which was brought in the name of the Horse Association of America had been ordered to be held at Chicago May 24 This gave the Thoroughbred Horse Asso ¬ ciation no time for preparation of the case in behalf of the shippers of race horses trotters and pacers as well as runners runnersAccordingly Accordingly Wallace Muire of Lexington counsel for the Thoroughbred Horse Asso ¬ ciation appeared at Chicago yesterday and succeeded in having the hearing postponed to June 29 the place to be fixed by the examiner for either Washington or Atlantic City
