The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-21

No. 4S3-B, issued December 30, 1893, by
the International and Great Northern
Railroad company, together with all
amendments to said specials, unless the
said San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
Railway company, or other parties at in
terest show good and sufficient cause why
said special tariffs should not be Cancelled.
The Importance of the above circular
issued by the railroad commission and fix
ing Tuesday, March 26, for hearing on
the questions presented therein may not
be generally understood by the wholesale
and jobbing interests of interior cities
owing to the technical wording of the
circular. In plain words, it presents the
question as to whether, under the com.
mission law, the commission is authorized
to make jobbing rates from interior cities
and towns to the territory naturally tribu-
tary thereto. The question has been
brought sharply to the attention of the
commission and is pressing for final de-
termination by an application of the Dial,
las freight bureau for jobbers rates out
of Dallas and on application of the South
ern Pacific railroad for authority to make
iobbers rates out of San Antonio. job
bers rates are now in force on some of the
lines leading out of San Antonio, and
nearly every town doing a jobbing bust
ness has q johber's rate of some sort
under which the merchants do a business
with surrounding towns. Jobbers rates
must be given to all cities and towns in
the interior desiring them, or else exist
ing jobbers tariffs must be cancelled so
that each town and city may be put on
an equality. The main point at issue is
whether, under the commission law, job
bers rate can be legally made'at all, and
it is on this point the commission desires
to hear from railroad companies and the
representatives of cities and towns inter
ested on the 26th.
The following was also issued yester-
day:
Austin, Texas, March 10, 1895.
Notice is hereby given to all parties
of Texas will, on Tuesday, March 20
1895, take up for consideration and ac-
ton the subject of an arrangement of
rates and charges which will permit the
collection of hides at convenient points
in the interior of Texas for the purpose
of preparing them for shipment from such
points to final markets.
The plans suggested to the commission
by existing conditions is as follows
Full rates, as per current tariffs and
classifcations, shall be charged from orig
inal shipping point to point of collection
or concentration, and when shipments
are forwarded from point of concentration
to final destination, one-half of the charge
for transportation from original shipping
point to point of concentration shall be
refunded to shipper under the following
conditions:
First-The shipments shall be forward
ed from point of concentration to final
destination by thel inc over which they
were transported to such point of con-
centration.
Second-The rate from point of con-
centration to final destination shall not
be less than the rate from original ship
ping point to the same final destination.
Third--One railroad company shall not.
under this arrangement, absorb any Dor
ton of the charge made by another rail
road company for the service of concentra-
ton.
When the rate from point of concentra-
ton to final destination is less than that
from original shipping point to the same
destination, a sufficient portion of the
charge for the service of concentrating