The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-12-22
INTERSTATE COMMISSION.
Valuable Decision BY Which Our State
Board Nay PrelI.
Meridian News.l

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Just Wait the Interstate Commis- !
sion says on this point ef reasonable %
ness of rates is given herewith in full
from its recent decision, as follows:- 20
The only remaining question is t.r.s,-,e..
reasonableness of the Meridian bacon. is'i
New Orleans cotton rates on the
Orleans and Northeastern road. &c Kegs, SIS
tically this includes the whole s.~
presented in the complaint agail Ioc cheaper.
defendants.
To protect the rights of shippers, PSs isn Ra'
rates must be reasonable of themselee cheaper
They must be reasonable and equ, A.....7i-s
BILE in their relations to prevent undNhi'e'' e'''' =
prejudice or disadvantage to any peiFar, aOs.
son or kind of traffic. The rates fromey .'''''"
Jackson, Miss by the Illinois Central 81 90
road and other Mississippi points about %
the same distance from New Orleans 100
as Meridian are substantially the same y 90
as the Meridian and New Orleans rates 80
in question. Ooa3 90
Neither are the rates complained of
excessive in comparison with the rates -sas IS
fixed by the railroad commissioners OF Ooa3 rs
Mississippi and Alabama for like dis
tance between interior Mississippi and
Alabama points. But they are exces-
sive in comparison with the rate from oyernor
shreveport 10 new orleans over the of State
Vicksburg, Shreveport, Texas Pacific easurei
road and connections, which is twice " y Cen,
the distance (4O9 miles, while the rate ucatior
is one-fourth less xpUpi, xpopIi
They are excessive in comparison empbel
with the Texas Pacific rate, which is ar.hi11p9', III,
one-fourth less for 32s miles between nJcKe
Shreveport and New Orleans-nearly W
double the distance or in comparison entlS'
with rates from Houston, Tex, to New pot
Orleans, $50 miles, which is but half velo..t.ri
the Meridian and New Orleans rates pate
for nearly twice the haul. val
The share OF the New Orleans ana velo
Northeastern road in the through rate, be
IN copts nor halo from v;cksauro 10 Clytat
New oreanS was less 'nan a. ccn'S' OF sissi VI
cent more thah one-hith part the the L
rate in dispute over the same road open.
The rate of this road from New Or ting G
leans to Lawrence is so cents per 100 ,,' prosu,
pounds, of which its proportion for the and a,
carriage over Its whole line Is but to pre-
cents DC. 100 pounds-less than one acter.N
fourth the rate over it in dispute.
1t is true that these very low rates
are greatly the result of water compe- The
tition at the points of shipment. Yet tax OIL
it can hardly be that they are in any In deb
sense remunerative, as we must believe cock p
them to be, if the rates complained of which
are not excessive and unreasonably We
high Some of these low rates are vass y
over ,ho somo ,;,o and IN tho direction tingsAs
''' s'''''0 '-o '''' - '''0 heauc
of New Orleans. meVe
There is nothing in the eyiden CO to 81 =,
show that the cost of service under Wari
like conditions is more expensive on O'Ban
ua rooa f,on, ,ror;a,., 30 Nou, o.- 20 Wins
'no io"o noi'i 4,oii"i"i W 4'o" VI h. sunni
leans than on the roads carrying to. "A il
that city from Shreveport or Houston . y n us y,
AS cotton is carried to New Orlea', j A Wa
to be forwarded to Eastern dest:
tien, xhe relative rates to the plaIAais''oNA"'
a...,,..a, e.o,, nro.;a,a "a Bolivar col
ues''"a"o" noln 'ie'i"''n anu =. Bolivar CO..
Orleans is signified in deternv ..,,noto, co
what it is worth to the Merida ,-.',.,o oo
per to have this cotton carried Sharkey co
Orleans. For the purpose of tretary and iIea npa
ing it cannot be worth more Cation Tax Coll
cents per 100 pounds, If the f......."....At .Atto'
| to reach the Eastern marl--
~ 'S''- OF GREENyILLE.
same cost by way of Ne. N