The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14
MANY OBJECTIONS FILED
It May be Adopted With an Excep.
ton Sheet.
BOTH SIDES WILL HAVE A HEARING
ills Said That the Proposed Rate Discriminate
Against the South to Great Extent Com
parison Of Rates to Atlanta and
Chicago From NY.
Chicago From N. Y.


The Corporation Commission will hold
an important meeting next Thursday, oc-
tober 18th. The matter to come before
the body at that time is the consideration
of Southern Freight classification Number
81. 1t is expected that there will be
representatives of the three railroad sys-
TENS of the State. on one side, and repre-
sentatives of various business interests
of the State on the other.
This matter was brought up at the last
meeting of the Commission by the ]. l..
Borden Furniture Company, and other
North Carolina firms, and the Merchants
Association of New York. Both sides
were heard and the Commission took the
matter under advisement and will render
a decision next Thursday. ~
It is said that they will either adopt
the classification No. 81 with an excep-
tion sheet for North Carolina, or con-
tinue classification No. %.
The roads have made an effort to have
the consideration of the matter con-
tinued, but it is thought the commission
will decide one way or another.
The new classification which went into
effect June 1st. 1900. reduces the rate in
some instances, and increases it in others.
Mr. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line,
at the September meeting of the Commits
sion, admitted that the average increase
was greater than the average decrease,
but contended that changes would be
promptly made in any instance where it
was found that the rate proposed was
unjust
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In the complaints filed with the Com
mission, the charges are openly made
that the Southern rates are in excess of
those to other parts of the country. The
difference sis shown by the following
parallel taken from the protest of the
Merchants Association of New York:
Rates from New York to Atlanta-First-
class, La. second class, 50; third class,
Sc; fourth class, 70.
Rates from New York to Chicago
First class, 70; second class. IS; third
class, so; fourth-class. 35
"A firm that manufactures shot, bar lead
and lead sinkers, says: The rate pro-
posed makes it almost prohibitive as the
price of shot is figured so close to the
price of pig lead If the design is to
prevent the sale of shot by northern firms,
we know of no more effective way"
Southern Railway Commissioners at
Lookout Mountain.
They met for the purpose of considering
the best steps to take to relieve the
States which they represented from the
unfavorable and repressive conditions I'M
der which they have been and still con-
tinue to be laboring with regard to rail-
road transportation.
These disadvantages are:
First-Inequalities between rates of
freight from competing and producing
points to consuming points.
Second-Want of uniformity and reason
ableness in classification.
Third-A high scale of rates on business
generally interchanged between neighbor
ing States compared with rates from large
distributing centers to these States.
Fourth-The absence of a system of
joint tariffs for such interchange as will
remove the disadvantages.
This convention after considering the
matter of adopting the classification No
81 passed the following resolution:
Until permanent organization is
formed it will be impossible to arrive at
a correct basis for settling the matter of
uniform classification. and we, therefore,
recommend that the commissioners of the
several States in this territory advise and
request the commissioners of their respec
tive States to Join in the adoption of
Southeastern classification No. 25 in eff
feet October 1st 1899, as the official classi-
fication of their States or commissions, to
be used as such until such time as the
committee on classification of the perma-
nent organization can, or does recommend
a classification acceptable to the assoca-
tion. We recommend that the commits
sioners joining in this organization, SO far
as it lies within their power, emphatically
express their refusal to adopt. or in any
way recognize, the use of classification
known as Southern Freight Classified
ton, No. 81 and that they will use all
proper means to have the State commits
sions of which they are members, adopt
this course"
AT ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
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