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

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shippers have enabled them 10 ~munupolire
MARKETS for long periola.
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upon independent shippers through die
ordinations In tho distribution ~ tank cure.
q DETERMINATIONS
T. Open publi 'hn,l rates from whiting
INTO o large part " the t'nitcd States have
given the Standard oil Company m unfair
advantage of from I to ~ cents per
husdred pounds.
This discrimination seriously limits indie.
pendent rehnera In ~ inc markets. and shuts
them out completely from other markets,
II IL accomplished nv the Use Of commodity
rates that is, rates which apply only 10
petroleum and IT, products and by refusal
to prorate.
The true principle ~ commodity ate
making IL 10 more nearly e~qualize com
petitive conditions. but the general effect
Of its Use in the case Of oil has been 20 give
the Standard relatively much lower rates
to common markets. than those given to
its competitors.
For instance. In shipments to New Or
leans and other points on the lower Mis-
sissippi River and the Gulf. the ordinary
class rates o N similar low grade articles
from Toledo, Cleveland and Pittsburg are
only 2 cents above the rates from Whiting.
Toe commodity rates on oil are from 9L5
to 1877 cents above the rates from Whiting.
The normal principle Of commodity rates
would make the charge the same from all
four of these points, instead Of Increasing
the differential.
Prior to the establishment OF the Whit
ing refinery the railroads west OF the Mis-
sissippi prorated with the Eastern roads on
oil shipments from the Pennsylvania and
Ohio districts into most parts Of the West
and Southwest. After the establishment
OF the Whiting refinery these roads refused
TO prorate from points east Of Whiting.
This refusal increased the natural disad-
vantage Of the Eastern refineries from 1 to
1917 cents per hundred pounds. This dis
elimination is the more conspicuous in
the case OF the Southwestern railroads be-
cause they do prorate with the railroads
from Chicag 90 TO st. Louis on oil from Whit
ing. '- .-..
sEcRE RArHs ABOLISHED AFTER DIS
covERY.
Most OF the secret rates, and some OF the
open determinations discovered by tbs
bureau. were abolished by the railroads
shortly after such discovery. The more
important changes thus far noted are as
follows:
l.. The secret rite of o cents per barrel
from Clean to Rochester and 10 cents per
barrel from Clean TO Buffalo has heen
changed to an open rate OF % cents per
barrel to Rochester and 81 cents per barrel
to Buffalo on shipments Of all refined oil
products. and the practice Of blind billing
Of oil has been discontinued by tn o
Pennsylvania Railroad.
% 2. The low tank-car rates made by tie
Rutland Railroad from Norwood to Bur-
lington, Rutland, and Bellows Falls, VI;
have been made applicable on oil in barrels.
8. The cancellation of the secret rate
from Whiting to Grand Junction will re-
duoe by about three-fourths the Standards
advantage over competing refners at
Toledo, Cleveland, and vicinity on ship
ments into a large part Of the South. In
stead of IA or is cents, the difierential against
them Ia now . or 4 cents per hundred pounds,
while the disadvantage of competing re-
hners Of western Pennsylvania has been
correspondingly reduced,
4. The cancellation Of the secret rate
from Whiting to Evansville will reduce
the Standards advantage over competing
rehners at Toledo Oh shipments into many
other parts of the South from about 8I%
cents TO g.. cents per hundred pounds.
The advantage which the Standard has
enjoyed over competitors in Cleveland,
P%ittsburg, and other independent refining
points has been correspondingly reduced.
8. The cancellation OF the secret rates from
Whiting to East st. Louis and the substitu-
ton Of the rate OF 10 cents will reduce the
Standards advantage from II cents to Z
cents per hundred pounds, with a corre-
spending reduction Of its advantage over
more easterly refining points,
0. The railroads have advanced their
published rates from Whiting into northern
Indiana and Michigan by about ? or 3 cents
per hundred pounds. and have put the
rates on practically an equality distance con-
sidered, with those from Toledo and more
e~asterly points.
/. The New York, New Haven 4 Hart
ford Railroad has resumed the practice Of
prorating on oil, thereby reducing the
average freight charge to inGer endent
refners OF western Pennsylvania and Ohio
on shipments into a large Fart of Connect
iout, Rhode Island and Massachusetts,,
by about 8 cents per hundred pounds. This
will materially increase their opportunity