Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-06


Secret rates.
Rebates.
Elevator and compress fees.
Commissions to favored shippers a
\ though they were agents of the com
\ pany, to secure for it their own freigh
Salaries to favored persons az nom
inal employees, or fees for nominal ser
vices.
High salaries or commissions to rea
traffic agents who divide with favoret
shippers.
Cash contributions to shippers in til,
guise of payments to encourage new
industries. -
Paying "transfer allowances" t.
some shippers for carting their owr
goods.
The strawman" system.
Expense bill" abuses.
Loans to dealers and shippers or con.
signees to increase shipments or divert
them from other roads.
| Combination rates of which informed
shippers may take advantage.
Making the published rate cover the
price of the goods as well as the freight
for some shippers.
Flying rates, or "midnight tariffs. 4"
Terminal or private railway abuses
unfair division of rates, etc.
Private car abuses-big mileage
rates, excessive icing charges, exclus
i've contracts, etc.
Espionage giving some shippers In
side information of the business of
other shippers.
Maintaining or paying for the main
tenance of tracks or other property
belong to the shipper
The long and short haul abuse.
Unjust differences In the rates ac-
corded different places in favor of
certain localities, or individuals who
have business interests located there.
Unduly low rates to competitive
points" in general, as compared with
local rates, building the cities at the
expense of the country.
Unfair classification.
Use of different classification for
local and through traffic.
Laxity of inspection in cases of spe-
cial shippers, enabling them to get low
rates on mixed goods in carloads billed
at the rate appropriate to the lowest
product in the mass.
Intentional mistakes in printing tar.
ifs, few copies being run off for
favored shippers, after which the mis- |
takes are discovered and corrected for |
the ordinary shipper and the interstate
commission.
Fictitious entries in the "prepaid"l
column of the freight bill.
Instructions to agents to deduct
certain percentage from the face of
the bill when collected for specified |
shippers.
Payment of fictitious claims for
damage, delay, or overcharge.
Making a low joint rate Cor single
rate eithe-) on given commodity
when shipped for a purpose confined to
a few shippers, while other shippers
using the same commodity for other
purposes have to pay much higher
rates.
False billing.
False weighing-underbilling.
False number-billing larger nun
per of packages than are sent and claim
ng pay for the difference.
False eription-putting goods in
! lower class than the one to which
hey belong.
Also misunderstanding for export
md changing destination in transit.
Not billing at all-carrying goods
rec.
Excessive differences in the rates for
arge and small shipments. II
Unfair discrimination between ship
neRts in different form--barrels and
ank for example.
Charging more when the freight is
oaded in one than when 1t is loaded
q another way practically identical SO
ar as the railway is concerned II
Favoritism in switching charges. dc, 1
lurrage. etc. |,
Direct overeharges causing loss