Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-31
STATE WILL NOT SUBMIT
TO SUCH O|SCOURTEsY
Chair of Corporation Takes Rail
roads to Task for Interference
With Freight Rates.
ACUTE SITUATION DEVELOPS
Filling Of Petition for Increase OF
Tariffs to Comply With Ruling OF
Interstate Commerce Commission
Leads to Interesting Conflict,
Especial to The Times-pispatch


RALEIGH. y. c., March 3O.-The nj
ing OF a petition with the Corpora ton
/ Commission by the freight trafr1c man
| ayers OF tho Southern, Seaboard AIR
Line. Atlantic coast Line and Norfolk
Southern Railroad Companies for ror-
mission to raise the intrastate fertii-
iIer rates applicable to hauls OF thirty
miles and less, to a parity with rates
that mist now apply in hauIs of thirty
to fifty miles under the revision ~
| rates as ordered by the Interstate Com
! mcrce Commission in the recent case oil
f. Z. Royster VS.. these railroad com
| panies. before the Interstate Commerce
Commission. has developed an acute
situation
SAYS OFFICIALS AND STATE
WILL NOT STAND ron rr
Chairman Travis told the rcprcsen
tatves of tho railroad companies tina,
| interference with rates made by State
authority without any notice TO any
state representative. as seemed to b-
the situation in this case was con-
dition that neither the State ohicfals
or the people of North Carolina would
, stand for. He said he must insist that
dignity OF the State required notice
! to be served that such a step was I'm
pending, and opportunity giyen for a
hearing before authority to do this If
| Ii exists. is exercised.
The remarks OF the chairman w.r.
most especially applicable to tho In
terstato Commerce Commission in max
! Ing an order that would result In ar
! bitrary interference with intrastate
| rates without giving notice to tho state
! mat such course was about to he
| taken.
The chairman told the railroad rem
resentatives. for whom L. Green, freight
traffic manager for the Southern. was
the spokesman. that the commission
would give an answer as to the Pc
tttion within n week. Mr.. Cream .x
| planned that the railroad compani.,
were under the imperative necessity az
conforming TO the order OF tho Int.r-
state Commission without regard for
the consequence within the State ,r
| North Carolina
In the Royster case. the Interstate
commission held the interstate fertil-
| tzer rates out OF Norfolk, into Nor,h
| Carolina discriminatory as comnared
with lower interstate Carolina rates
| ana prescribed a maximum interst,,.
scare In connection with an order for
read1ustment or rates that would ra-
move discrimination against Norfol.;
INCREASE IN RATES
| Is ABOUT 20 PERCENT
| Inc increase in the Carolina mira
state rates that the railroads are put.
| t'hS INTO erect TO comply with the
order or the Interstate Commission ~
ABOUT ~ per cent. Indications are thn
the situation will develop an intere.,
ing conflict between the State and ~ .
interstate Commissions. the outcome I,
when VIII he watched with the keen, i,
| interest. The Interstate Commission :
| Following the precedent established
the Famous Shreveport case anectiu,.
me interstate AID tho intrastate rate.
| IN IeXas. where the Supreme Court ~
me United States. Justice Hughes
writing the opinion. held that the In
! terstate Commission had the right IN
| REQUIRE the reimbursement Of intrustatr
rates In eliminating Determinations
| against Interstate trafic