St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-11
THEY Do NOT DISCRIMINATE.
Pennsylvania Railroads Answer
the New York Board of Trade
Charges.

Pennsylvania railroads Answer
the New York Board of Trade
Charges.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-Answer was
filed to-day before the interstate COM
merce commission by the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, the PittSburg, Fort
Wayne d Chicago Railway company
and the Plttsburg, Cincinnati & st.
Louis Railway company, defendants in
complaint filed against them by the
New York board of trade and trans
portation. The complaint charges
among other things that since April 4,
1857, the defendants have been guilty
of unjust discrimination, in that they
have been in the habit CT charging
their regular tariff rates upon property
when delivered to them at New York
and Philadelphia for transportation to
Chicago and other Western points,
while charging other persons rates much
lower, and even as low as so per cent
thereof, for like and contemp0raneous
service when the property is delivered
to them at New York and Philadelphia
by vessels and steamship lines under
through bills of lading from foreign
ports and foreign interior ports, etc.
Defendants in their answer deny that
they are guilty of unjust discrimination
and that e Their of them is Interested in
the management and operation of
steamship lines running from New
York and Philadelphia to foreign ports
The Pennsylvania Railroad company,
the defendants say, is, however. the
OWNER OF CAPITAL STOCK
and bonded Indebtedness of the Inter-
national Navigation company, to the
extent of less than sixth of the entire
aggregate of such capital stock and in
debtedness. The said international
Navigation company is interested in
several lines Of steamships between
Philadelphia and New York and for
elgn ports; but the Pennsylvania Rail
road company takes no part in, nor does
it assume any control or supervision of.
nor does it claim or exercise any excep-
tional facilities with reference to said
steamships by reason of said stock and
bond ownership. The answer admits
that under an arrangement expiring
Oct. L, 1889, the defendant companies
formed with certain ocean steam
ship lines through routes, and
by means thereof, were en-
gagged in connection with said
steamship lines, known as carriers in
the transportation of property under a
common arrangement for continuous
carriage between points IN Europe and
the city of Chicago and other Western
points via New York and PHILADELPHIA:
and defendants say that by the uni
yersal practice of carriers constituting
a through route and control, etc. for
continuous carriage. the initial carrier
fixed the rate and subsequent carriers
under that practice did not file tariffs
for through shipments. Defendants
also admit that they did not receive as
their portion of the through rate, less
amount than
THEIR I'LL ISLAND RATE
but say that if statement contained in
the complaint table showing rates
charged per hundred pounds, and in
cases where imports were carried by
the American line to PHILADELPHIA. is
! correct, in the special instances there
set forth, so far as the through rate is
concerned, (Which is not admitted). VET
the divisions therein shown credit de
PENDANTS with less sum than was actu-
ally received. But defendants aver
that said rates, so far as correctly
stated. represent except now instances
of extreme low rates, the current and
prevalent rates approximating more
closely the sum of the inland and ocean