Early this year, 1905, the South Side Elevated road of Chicago wanted 400 carloads of ties. The blanket rate on ties from the entire yellow pine belt to Chicago is 26 cents per hundred lbs. On shipments originating between Luzon, La., and Pearl, Miss., the Illinois Central made a special tariff (March 22 and April 6, 1905), fixing the rate on ties at 26 cents per tie, each tie to be billed at 130 lbs. This was equivalent to a reduction of the rate to 20 cents per hundred lbs., and no shipper outside of the favored region could compete in the Chicago market. It is suspected that the party who got the Elevated contract knew beforehand that the railroad would issue this special tariff, and was therefore able to underbid competitors in perfect safety.[221] A rate of 90 cents a ton is charged on coal for a special use such as railroad supply, while the same coal must pay $1.85 between the same points if intended for manufacturing or other industrial domestic use.[222] It is unjust discrimination to charge more for carrying cattle and hogs than for carrying packing-house products, and the desire of the carrier to get more business by so doing is no excuse.[223] The railroads have carried dressed meats from Omaha to Chicago at 18½ cents, while charging 23½ cents on live-stock from Iowa points nearer Chicago. The packer could buy the cattle at Fort Dodge, Iowa, ship them to Omaha, kill them and ship the dressed carcasses to Chicago, cheaper than the live-stock owner at Fort Dodge could ship the cattle to Chicago. Some years ago on arbitration, Mr. Fink and Judge Cooley being the arbitrators, it was decided that the fair ratio between live-stock and dressed meats from Chicago to New York would be 26 cents per hundred for live cattle, and 45 cents for the dressed carcass. But the railroads have reversed this relation, although the Interstate Commerce Commission has decided that the rate on dressed meats should be higher than on live-stock.[224] Recently, January 1905,[225] the Commission has reaffirmed its decision of 1890 and held that it is unlawful to charge more for transporting live-stock from Missouri River points and St. Paul to Chicago than for carrying packing-house products between the same points, but the Beef Trust cares nothing for the opinions of Judge Cooley nor for the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Trust controls the railroads.