The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-17

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uhin Hivrf and esss NJ no VI ~isalppi ihroasH
eefet yates and afeh disrfi minaeiah from
Whiting, Ind
Tho chafe ~ eoveys many rate point gisst
eofnra that ~ IN IN nj ertefins The a0sth
thf6ssh whai 10 termed me ufand funetign,
Tenn combination fof rears snd ~ wav
NJ both tho Illinois rsntfsi and ne ChiesgS
and Eastern Illinois railroads fuHninF south
tfon thieaeo tho rat On refined nj from
Whltlne. Ind N Grand Junction. fenn vas
~ cents per ion pounds. ant this rate vas
covered nv prhliahrd tafins nlri with the
Interstate Commerce Commission rhe lat
Ter fact Mf Oafnrid has omitted ~ stats In
hi report. The southern Railway had .
,afih also published and hled With tho Inter
stat" Commerce Commission. naming rates
from Evansville, Ind via Grand junction.
Tenn. to n great many point through the
Aouth. \ printed division sheet Issued by
the southern Railway NJ part and parcel n
the tarin applying from Evansville bore tho
following notation "On shipments Of oil
from points north NJ Evansville. via Evans
Vile. the southern Railway will apply rates
tas shown In tho division sheet south Of
Grand Junction These rates have been In
force since isas, and collections have always
h en- ma 10 from tho standard oil Company
AZ the net figures: no rebates or secret settle
ments being involved.
II was specifically shown to the Commits
sioner that the combination ~ rates into the
South via Grand Junction n not OF great
Importance TO the STANDARD on Company.
because during all the time the rates to and
from Grand Junction were In force the Stand
ard OIL Company shipped fully AZ much oil
from whiting via Evansville and other routes
at the rates prevailing TO and beyond the
Ohio River. The use OF the Grand Junction
route was simply an incident IN the distribtt-
ton Of a part OF q very large &c into the
South. Hundreds Of cars we're shipped
yearly into that section from Ohio and Penn
sylvania shipping points by the Standard
and its competitors Shipments were also
made from Buffalo and Rochester. n. Y.
from Philadelphia. Pa. Baltimore, Md.
Savannah. Ga. Wilmington. N. C.. and New
Orleans. La.
So far as the rates from whiting TO Evans
Vile are concerned. the fact Is that these
rates were openly quoted by the railroads
and were in force a great many years. The
Standard had nothing to do with the railroads
method of manifesting. 1t simply paid the
rates quoted to 1t without rebate or secret
settlement OF any kind.
RATE TO EAST ST. LOUIS.
Mr.. Garfield complains OF the application OF
a rate Of six cents per 100 pounds on oil from
Whiting. Ind, to East st. Louis, ILL.,. claiming
that IL was a SECRET" rate. and that In the
matter of way billing by the ra ilroads manip-
ulation was resorted to with the knowledge
OF the Standard Oil officials.
About 1890. when the refinery had been
established at Whiting. Ind. the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy Railway named to
the Standard Oil Company a rate Of six cents
per 100 pounds and issued and sent to the
Standard on Company a rate sheet from
Chica go. H.. to East 81, Louis. Ill. At the
same time 1t advised the Sta ndard Oil Com
pany that under its rules the State rate OF
six cents per 100 pounds would apply not
only from Chicago proper but from all points
both in Illinois and Indiana within the So
called Chica 20 switching limits, and that under
such rules II would absorb the switching
charge per car from whiting to Its own rails,
thus applying the six cent rate from Whiting
to East st. Louis. Subsequently the Chicago
and Alton and the Chica go and Eastern Hi
nois solicited q share Of the business at the
same rate and the business was divided be-
tween the three roads. For several years
the three roads applied the six cent rate from
Whiting under their widely known rule.
understood by every carload shipper In Chi
cago and vicinity, VIZ, that Chicago rates
would apply to and from all points within
the switching limits, A number Of these
points are Just across the border In Indiana
and are the seat Of important industries. viz.
Whiting. East Chicago, Hammond and Indiana
Harbor, The application OF Chicago rates to
and from these points within the switching
limits Is of long usage and concerns not only
the shipment of oil from Whiting to points In
Illinois but the shipments Of many other
lines Of Roods'to similar points.
Several years ago the railroads covered
the matter more specifically by filing with
the Interstate Commerce Commission 80
called application sheets providing that
any rate named from Chicago to a point In
Illinois or beyond down to a minimum OF six
cents per 100 pounds In carloads would apply
from all points In Illinois or Indiana within
the Chicag 60 switching limits. Common usage
established the principle Of applying Chicago
rates from points within the Chicago switch
ing limits up to the time the practice was
covered by application sheets filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
with the method Of way billing. which
Ia purely an accounting matter between
the railroad agents and the railroad auditor.
the shipper necessarily has nothing to do.
Commissioner Garfield insisted that the
Standard Oil COMPANY must have known
of the method OF manifesting until IL was
pointed out 10 MN WIN eN'ieih9 'ao 'ne'
the = uyhitinn ond Thai the
traric oIo ~ ~ ,hare nv n Chicago
cars wcIe III ~ standord nh COM
switchins Ioau, ~. ransao,ion ia that Il
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