The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-08
COMP PANYORDERED'
follower TARIFFS
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rules Against Norfolk and
Western Railway.
ITS RATES UNREASONABLE
Complaint Filed by Corporation.
Commission on Behalftof North
Carolina Cities.
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Washington. D. c., July I'm the
case of the Corporation Commission
of the State of North Carolina against
the Norfolk and Western and other
railroads, the Interstate Commerce
Commission to-day ordered sweeping
changes to be made in freight tariffs
touching shipments to and from vir-
ginia and North Carolina cities.
The complaint was brought by the
Corporation Commission on behalf OF
itself and shippers and consumers in
Salem. N. c.. and points on the lines of
the Norfolk and Western intermediate
between Durham, n c.. and Lynchburg,
Va. and Winston-Salen, N. c., and
Roanoke. Va The cities of Roanoke,
Lynchburg, Petersburg. Suffolk and
Norfolk the Southern Railway Com
pany and the seaboard Air Line and
the latter's receivers intervened against
the complaint.
The Complaint.
IL WIS dlteScu III luc COllpldlula II1dC
the defendants charges for transpor-
tation on the traffic included in the
numbered ella sses from to 6, both in
elusive. in the Southern classification,
and on grain and grain products, hay
and packing house products. In carload,
from Chicago, ILL.,; East st. Louis. Ill;
Louisville, KY; Columbus and Cincin-
natl, Ohio, to Durham and Winston
Salem were unreasonable and unjust:
that the rates We're unduly preferential
and unduly discriminatory. as COM
pared with rates on the same class of
shipments from the same points to the,
Virginia cities; that rates between
Norfolk and Western stations In Vir-
ginia and West Virginia. on one hand.
and Norfolk and Western stations in
North Carolina. on the other hand
were discrimin inatory. also that the rates
on coal charged by the Norfolk and
Western to Durham and Winston Salem
were unjust and unreasonable and un.
duly discriminatory in favor of Roa-
noka and Lynchbnrg and other VIr-
ginia cities, and that the rates on
lumber charged by the Norfolk and
for Durham and Winston
Salem to Cincinnati ana Columbus and |
other Western points were unjust and
AT, tha time the complaint was filed |
he only means OF railroad transpor- !
alton at Roanoke was by the Norfolk |
md Western, and 1t is one OF the con-
endons Of the complainant that COM !
oetitive conditions at Winston Salem
md Durham are such as to warrant |
over rates than are maintained In |
Roanoke. /
Since the complaint was filed tha yir- /
'lnlan Railway Company has con- |
tructed railroad from a point In |
Vest Virginia north and west Of Roam /
IKE 10 and through the latter point. |
Ehe company now operates it's road to |
lddeWater. and has filed tariffs with I
he commission. tsg& sssS
Entitled to Same Rates.
The Corporation Commission con-
ended that Winston Salem and Dur 1
lam were entitled to the same or lower
ates from Western points north OF |
he Ohio River than applied to the |
'drginia cities from the same points
The opinion IN the case is written
'ision was that tho existing rates OF
o shipments from r Roanoke and I4Ynch, /
,urg to Winston Salem and Durham.
we're unjust and SunreaSona BILE 458El
1T was also decided that existing |
ates OF the same company from Gin
tnnatl to Winston lem ard Durham |
we're likewise unjust ana unreasonahle
lpon This fnding the commission will I
lreet the aNorf oil and Western to low
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