The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-07
CHAIRMAN LOVE SUBMITS
REPORT OF COMMISSION
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We have ON file sixteen thousand tar
itls. The Raihusd Commission Of Yer
mont has approximately wo Thousand
tariffs the State of Georgia, seven
thousand tive hundred. The scope o.
information available in this depart
ment includes every tariff In effect on
every railroad doing business in the
State OF Oklahoma aud on every rail
road connecting With railroad doing
business in oklahoma. by means OF
which a correct rate can be quoted on
any commodity from any point in the
United States To or through Oklahoma.
Our tariff files have been declared by
railroad experts to be the most c0n-
pete in the United States with the
exception OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Washington. There il
a large number OF informal complaints
handled through this department. saca
as oyCrchargcs for freight which
usually grow out OF an error IN the
local agent applying the wrong tariff
While the C0ppnissien has no luris-
dictiOn over controversies growing out
OF interstate shipments. it has accomp-
lished much for The shippers Of the
State by quoting to the proper rail
road officials the correct rate and in-
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inp the local emplovcs of lila railros Il
more careful Ia applyinq the ira
tariffs. and ovefehafzFB arc GROWTH
teas tfaanen every day Sifpt!i>
eases have varied hi the refund a
claims involving from fifteen cents L
twenty-eieht hundred dollars. Whi7
this dcpartrpnt has turned back
shippers IN actual cash three times D.
much as ii costs To maintain The saate
yet the greatest benefit results r3n
he constant elofrt on the part OF lh
+ Commission to have railway em9lo1 6
to apply freight tariffs properly. 1t i
but natural, If the agent collects lcs
than the tariff schedule that he mne
make UP the difference and it has bGe
the custom, heretofore to give hin
self the benefit Of the doubt and # h
did not know the correct tariff 70 4
sure anu charge enough to obyiate t.
making NJ Of any Shortage out of hi
earnings. This has had the eject ~
: few instances Of the replacement
employees who were shown TO BIC hlt
!, competent or Indifferent.
} There has ben much CON aiat {
; the interstate rate between Arkans
and Oklahoma, and between reXl
: points and Oklahoma, ard the mt
: department is now preparing a. tst.
, or con,narieons tbaf theee nn .eaea.
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