The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-05-28
LUMBER CLAIMS
TO Be SETTLED
BEFORE INTERSTATE COM.
MERGE COMMISSION
Many Devious Ways to Be Passed
Through Before the Coin Comes to
Those to Whom 1t Belongs.

JACKSON, Miss, May IS -Mesyr3.
Green G Green, leading attorneys for
the members of the Genital yellow
Pine Association, have given cut the
terms of the agreement recently
reached at a Conta 'enoc of the attor-
neys representing both sides in The
excess freight CLAIMS growing out of
the advances in rates put in effect on
April 25 and June %, 1909, covering
shipments OF yel>S ripe lumber from
points in Mississippi, Fast Louisiana,
West Alabama and West Florida, and
commonly cs,'i :he Central Yellow
Pine Association territory, TO points
on and north and south of the Ohio
river.
The cldir.'s # the various claimants
who are represented 10y Messrs. 81 cen
& Green, OF ,:,s eitv and n and
D. Mile. Sow Orleans. repre-.
sent many h1EtGnds of dollars, and
al Z dSdlhoJ n NOICu " iilO'f 'hiI Oudo
embraced IN whist - knnw1 as the
Southeast Mississippi Valley FIR light
Association territory, and the agree
ment, subject 10 r*t'H's.-: by the
Interstate Commccc: Commission. Is
for a settler cit on the basis CT o.,
per cent. Of to- provSb'e claims "be-
ing the excess rate applied to the &C.
tual weight C: yellow pine lumber,
representing sEir.1"r urnn which
said clients. Seing tho ow1ers Of said
lumber whila H. transit have Eereto'
fore actually pail freight. including
the advanced rat; OF two cents afore-
said, to points OF actual destination,
and upon vr'.E said railway com
panies, or ~" @, noe - them. have
actually collec.ai OF received the tariff
rate, including the adv.Errd rate OF
two cents o. zach 10h ronnts of !u-
low pine lumber involved in tariff Of
April 10, 1909, as flXcd by the railway
companies, CIV 'i't.lG ''sO '''h w.
and Nashvr Rsnroad Company. all
of such shipn IT'S having actually
moved subse 'uent TO the Respective
dates of SUI tariffs and prior to the
25th day of June, 1907, from points
of origin and to points of destination,
within the .eI.itcry hereinafter de.
scribed,' etc.
A number of exceptions are made, so
as to eliminate duplicate claims. ur-
located cars, shipments originating or
destined to territory not emb .aced in
the agreement points on the Missis-
sippi Central railroad litigated (. O.
b. mill claims, reconsiguments and di
versions, all shipments of lumber
other than yellow pine and all Gains
not filed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission prior to May 10. 1919.
Before settlement, which is to b
made within thirty days Of tie aY.
prevail of the agreement by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. the
claims are all to be submitted 10 an
investigation by the clearing houses
of the railroad companies, at Macon.
Ga, New Orleans, La, or W ashirgtrn.
D. c., and payments are 20 he made
by the several railroad companies
separately and not Jointly, each road
paying its proportion, pa sed uon The
prorata of the original freight charges
it received, as determined by the clear
ing house.
Mr.. Marcellus Green, VINO has per
sonally conducted the case for his
firm, says this settlement, when rati
fled and carried out, will dispose Of
90 per cent. of the total claims in
volved in the proceeding' before the
Commerce Commission from
this territory, and will include ell
the claims of consequences except
those of the J. J. Newman Lumber
Company.
The final hearing Of .he matter be-
fore the Interstate Commerce cmmis,
sion, at which that body will pass
upon the terms of the agreement,
which had originally been get for June
Il, has since been postponed Ia an
Indefinite date. and will come up be |
ore the commission in vacation.
The railroads are to pay al, attor-
eys' fees, but they expressly stipu-
tie that they make no admission that
ny Of the rates in question were or
re unreasonable or excessive 1t
erefore follows that any other claim
It who might bob up would have to {
lht out his case from the ground up, {
d could not utilize this settlement |
a precedent t
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