The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-30
IS
INTERESTED IN
RAILROAD RATE
SHIPPERS AND RECEIVERS
OF FREIGHT AND THEIR
AGENTS HOLDING CONFER
ENCE TODAY.

All the state of Georgia and espe-
ciaily the seaports, of which Bruins
wick is an important one, will be
greatly affected with the final results
of conference of traffic managers.
chamber of comemrce secretaries,
manufacturers association secretaries,
shippers and manufacturers generally
and all other interested parties, which
is to be held this morning at the Ho-
tel Dempsey, in Macon.
The various railroads iof Georgia
have petitioned the state railroad com
mission for permission to revise the
present Georgia intrastate freight
hearing for June 26th A report of
the Macon conference will be given
in The News tomorrow
The purpose of the conference is to
discover just what the changes are
that are asked by the carriers and
what they mean to the people of Geor-
gia and to organize to fight any points
in the petition that prove to he unrea-
sonable. This fight promises to be
probably the biggest proposition that
has faced Georgia shippers and receiv-
ers of freight in many years.
The petition of the carriers asks
that all shipments moving wholly
within the state of Georgia common
ly called sntrastate shipments be
governed by the surrent southern
classification with exceptions thereto
to be designated Georgia Excep-
tions to Southern Classfication;
that a number of the ruaes and or
ders of the Georgia commissioners
classification be changed ITO coincide
with the rules of the southern class
ification, or those governing inter
state shipments; that list of com
modify rates. based upon mileage be
established between an Georgia
points; that present rates from Sa5-
vannah and Brunswick to all Georgia
points be raised to basis of current
rates from Jacksonville to same
points; that rates to depressed points
be raised and to intermediate points
be lowered where requirements of
fly; and that proposed schedule of
intrastate mileage rates be substi-
tuted to be applied to all Georgia
shipments, this schedule to make in
creases over present rates for dis
tances upon to 1870 miles and reduc-
tions for distances exceeding 1870
miles
The railroads state the purpose of
the proposed revision to be as fol
logs (page of petition)
First. To make an adjustment of
intrastate rates that will conform
to the long and short haul prin-
ciples prescribed by the interstate
| commerce commission in connection
with interstate rates, and therby re-
move cause for many complaints and
general dissatisfaction as to the al
| legged discriminatory effect Of the
present intrastate adjustment.
Second To bring about proper
and harmonious relationship in the
rates applicable between points in
Georgia and the interstate rates to
! and from points in Georgia, thereby
removing determinations in favor Of,
or against. interstate tarffic, due to
the fact that the intrastate Georgia
rates on many commodities moving
in volume, and comprising very
considerable proportion of the total
traffic, are decidedly out of line with
the interstate commodities, as here
| inhafOra Gtatpd bpinp generally nm.
necessarily and abnormally low, and
lower than the interstate rates and
rates in other southern states for
similar distances"