The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

on the mile is compared from Memphis. Louisville and Cincinnati, and in each
 instance the Montgomery rate is the the zInpterstate Commerce Commission
 Is Informed that the Louisville < Nashville. over which most of the
 ssssss is sfhpPsd hi oSs aaa ps sacoia and that Mobile Is longer distance of 1So miles and Pensacola l longer distance of 162 miles.
 that an average of the first six class rates from St. Louis show that to Bir-
 mingham, the totatis 6s.e. to Pensacola 5s.1, to Mobile 5s.1, while to Mont gomery the average is s46:
 10o-pound iots and claims that Mont gomery is discrtminated against in fa- vor of Mobile and Pensarola. The ta- Montgomery the rate on 1oo.pound , lots Is i0S. while to Mobile and Pen sacola the rate is 9S. The table is continued to show that the same dis every city of the West and Central West
 Section 10 of the petition of com- piaint asserts that the total through rate from Kansas City and Omaha to Mobile are divided on a percentage basis, which allows the railroads in question less revenue from Memphis,
 
 bile than they demand on the same trafic originating at Memphis and the same cities for Mobile, whereas on the same trafic from the points west of the Mississippi the roads demand the full published rates to Montgomery. In this, discrimination against Mont gomery Is alleged.
 Can Be Heshipped Cheaper. The complaint admits that the roads which are made defendants in the cause are not initial lines in Kansas City, Omaha and Chicago but are new ertheless controlling carriers into Mo- bile, Montgomery and Pensacola and muigated by the initial lines they arbi- trarily fixed the rates and thereby de- priyed Montgomery of the equal rights to which she was entitled with Pen- sacola and Mobile.
 Tn italics to emphasize the impor- tance of the statement the complaint declares s56 articles can be shipped sacola and then be reshipped back to Montgomery at less rate than the published rate from East St. Louis to Montgomery. The complaint points out that merchants at Pensacola un-
 der this condition can purchase goods
 and reship them to Montgomery cheap CT than the local merchants can have | Paragraph IS of the petition alleges:
 That the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has arbitrarily established
 rates from ohio and Mississippi River Crossings to Pensacola, Florida, below a normal adjustment: that they are
 relatively unreasonable and unjust to
 Montgomery and not demanded by &C.,
 tusi competition and 1t Is only proper
 and just that the rates to Montgom-
 cry should be readJusted to enable
 her merchants to meet the competition of Pensacola on an equitable basis, in
 a large and prosperous territory that
 should be common to both cities: that
 Pensacola is an exclusive port to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and
 if 1t is commendable that it should
 build up export trafio at that point,
 the rates should be confined to articles comprising export traffic. and that they
 should not include. as Is done. commo-
 dities which are used only for local
 consumption or for inland distribu-
 ton; that trafic destined to the West
 Indies Is covered by through export
 tariff. and through rates published
 therein have no relation to the rates to Pensacola proper: that Pensacola
 therefore has been treated to an arti-
 fcial adjustment for which there has
 never been any just demand"
 At Disadvantage Close at Home. It Is further claimed in the petition
 that not only do the low rates to Mo-
 bile and Pensacola give an advantage
 on business reshipped to Montgomery,
 but they also give q great advantage
 in the reshipping of general merchan- disc to intermediate points between
 Montgomery and Pensacola, and be-
 tween Montgomery and Mobile. A ta-
 ble accompanies this declaration bN which ik is shown that Mobile and E,enaa cola 3rar1 cnrarefa x.xttI,s Rfor e,o1,,