The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-16
FREIGHT Discrimination.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM
MISSION GIVES RELIEF.
An Order Issued for the Railroads
TO Cease After June 18th to Dis
criminate Against Wilmington in
Freight Rates from Chicago, st.
Louis and Other Western Points

AT the general session OF the Inter-
State Commerce Commission, held at
its office in Washington, d. c., May eth,
an important order was issued in the
action of the Wilmington Tariff Asso-
citation against The Atlantic Coast Line
and the Seaboard Aid Line and their
western connections. The members Of
the commission present were Hon. Mar
tin a. Knapp, chairman, Hon. Judson
Hon. Charles A. Prouty and Hon.
Joseph W. Fffer.
Tile action of the Wilmington Tariff
Association was to secure relief from
determinations in frelghts from western
POINTS and put Wilmington upon an
equitable basis with Virginia points.
The order is as follows:
This case being at issue upon COM
plant and W on file, hav ing been
duly heard, and submitted by the par
ties. n full investigation OF the mat
terS and things involved herein having
been had, and the commission having on
the 18th day Of December. 1901. made
| and filed a report and opinion herein,
containing its findings of fact and con-
| illusions thereon:
1T Is ordered and ~adjudged, that said
report and opinion of the commission
| herein be and the same is hereby made
a part of this order.
1t is further ordered and adjudged
that the defendants be and they
s~everally are hereby notified and
required to cease II deslst, from
and after the 18th day of June, 1902,
from enforcing and maintaining the
present relations of rates on freight ar
ticles from Chicago and East st. Louis
in the state Of IllionIs mad st. Louis in
the State of Missouri to Wilmington in
| the State of North Carolina and Nor
folk in the State of Virginia, which said
relations of freight rates are u and
| declared in and by said report and
| opinion of the commission to subject the
| city of Wilmington ds a locality. the
various descriptions Of traffic shipped
threto from Chicago, East st. LOUIS and
st. Louis aforesaid, n merchants
and dealers doing business in said city
Of Wilmington, to unreasonable and un-
| Just rates and undue n unreasonable
prejudice n disadvantage, and to af-
ford wrongful preferences and advant-
| ages to Norfolk as a locality, traffic from
| Chicago, st. Louis and East st. Louis
destined thereto and merchants and
| dealers doing business in Norfolk afore-
said.
\ cit is further ordered ana adjudged,
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be and they severally are hereby fur
ther notified and required to wholly
cease and disist, from and after the 18th
day of June, 1902, from charging, de-
manding, collecting or receiving for the
transportation of freight articles from
Chicago. st. Louis or East st. Lotus
aforesaid to Wilmington aforesaid n
other rates than those which are rea-
Sonable, just and not wrongfully preju,
dicial to Wilmington aforesaid, its traf-
fic, and merchants and dealers doing
business in said C ity of Wilmington,
which said rates ate found and de-
clared in and by said report n opin-
ion of the commission herein to be not
more than 135 per cent OF the rates
contemporaneously in force upon like
traffic shipped from East st. Louis to
Norfolk aforesaid.
cit is further ordered, That a notice
embodying this order be forthwith sent
to each Of the defendant corporations,
together with a copy Of said report n
opinion of the commission herein, in
conformity with the provisions Of he
fifteenth section of the act to regulate
commerce"