The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-29
Commission To
HEAR PETITION
OF RAILROADS
SECRETARY oee GOES TO AT
TEND MEETING TO CONSIDER
NEW STORAGE RULES.
While Railroads Contend That Change
Will Benefit Shippers the Proposed
Change is Being Opposed-Hearinq
Occurs Today.

ThlS morning at 10 o'clock,
the railroad commission will take up
the question of adopting a uniform
code of demurrage as adopted by the
national association of railroad com
mlssioners and recommended by the
interstate commerce commission.
Secretary Ogg, of the Brunswick
board of trade, will attend and repre-
sentatives from many of the railroads
in the state and from the shippers in
terested in the demurrage proposition
will he present at the hearing.
This set of rules was formulated by
a committee of the National Asso-
citation Of State Railway Commission
! ers after prolonged and detailed hear
ings, and was later approved by the
association.
The committee which formulated
them was headed by Commissioner
Lane, of the interstate commerce com
mission, and that commission, by spe-
cial circular, has approved them.
They have been adopted by the lines
of the southeast, effective April 1, for
interstate shipments, and will, thern-
fore, apply to Is per cent. of the BUS
mess done in Georgia.
| In order to avoid uncertainty and
friction by reason of the enforcement
for interstate shipments of a set of
rules differing from tnat applying to
:tntrastate shipments. there are many
i who think IT u,icn hn -faE n
! adopt the uniform rules. This course
has already been followed hi Ken
J tucky and North Carolina, in both of
which states the railroad commissions
lvoted unanimously for the adoption
yof the uniform rules.
! These rules represent the work of
la committee selected from the mem
Ebers of the various state cOmmi ssiun
ers after the fullest and most care
ful investigation, and are declared to
be greatly advantageous to the ship.
tping pIblic in that, being unif0 III
they may be enforced without appar
ent discrimination, and will tend to
reduce car detention. thereby insuriD2
better facilities for the MOVING of
freight
| A feature Ct the uniform rules which
it is declared will work to the spe-
cial benefit of the shipper is what is
known as the average rule" whereby
a shipper who loads or unloads car
or cars in a shorter time than ths
prescribed by the rules, will be cred
iited with this time and may conso
squently take a correspondingly long II
time to load or unload ether cars dur
ing the same month without being
lcharged demurrage.
The adoption of this rule, it is held
will more than compensate for other
changes that will have to be made in
the rules now covering Georgia ship
Iments in order tC secIer uniformity.
1t is this set of rules, with a few
minor changes, which on April l Goes
into effect on all interstate business
in the south and which the railroad
commission of Georgia is considering
the advisability of adopting to cover
business between points in this state
While the above is the claim of the
railroads, many shippers and CONNER
cial bodies over the state are opposed
Ito the proposed change and will APP
pear before the commission today and
endeavor to have the petition denied