Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-01-12
CUT FREIGHT RATES
ON FARM PRODUCTS
COMMISSION SAYS THAT lNTRA-
STATE RATES MUST BE RE. =.
oucEo At ONCE.
IS SIX MONTHS EXPERIMENT
Order Went Into Effect January
and overeharses Collected Must
30 Refunded.

Raleigh.
Ordering the Atlantic Coast Line to
put into effect the six months'\ ex.
perimental reduction of the c2rriers
on agricultural products and live
stock and declaring that tho Coast
Line and other roads which have filed
supplemental tariffs not only must put
into effect with January / these, re.
duced rates and refund within ten
days any overcharges, the state corp.
Grafton commission handed down the
following somewhat breezy order:
Whereas, the railroad companies
Of the United States have issued, un.
der authority Of the interstate com.
merce commission, special permission
No. 56,150, general tariffs, providing
for reduction Of freight rates on az.
ricultural products and live, stock for
an experimental period ofsix months;
and whereas, there has arisen some
confusion and some diversity Of &C.
tion as to particular railroad lines. in
that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
company and some other companies
operating. in the state of North, Car
olina have issued supplemental tar
IFS providing that said deduction on
agricultural products and live stock
shall not apply "on traffic having orr.
gin, destination and entire transpor.
tation, within any one OF. the follow.
ing states, Georgia, Florida, North
Carolina and
Whereas, the said supplement ex.
cluding shippers between points In
the state Of North Carolina from the
I benefits OF the said reduced rates
are understood to havei been issued
for the reason that the North Caro-.
lima corporation commission, after ap.
proval Of the action of the carriers
in publishing tariffs providing for
the reduced rates on agricultural
products and live stock for an ex.
detrimental period of six months de.
clined to contract away in advance
its Jurisdiction to pass upon the ques.
tion of whether the higher rates on
agricultural products and live stock
should be restored at the end OF the
six months experimental. period. re-
serving the right to pass upon that
question upon its merits at the end
of the six months period; and In or.
der that there may be no uncertain.
ty as to the legal application Of the
said reduced rates upon all ship.
ments over all railroad lines be-
tween points in North CaroliRa from
and after January 1, 1922, and until
further. 1t Is :. -
Ordered, that the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad company and all other
railroad companies doing business in
North Carolina issue tariffs within
three days, either on their own &C.
count or through authorized tariff
issuing agencies, withdraw and can
ceiling all traiff supplements issued
by and on behalf Of any other such
railroad lines limiting the applica'
ton of the said general tarifs1 pro
viding for reduced rates on agricul
tural products and live stock inso
far as said supplements may limit
the application of said reduced rates
on shipments Of agricultural pro
ducts and live stock between points
in Nosth Carolina, and that the said
reduced rates on agricultural pro
ducts and live stock, made generally
on interstate shipments, and in some
other state on intrastate shipments
shall be made effective on all such
shipments over all railroad lines
within. the state Of North Carolina
effective from and after January 1
1922, to the same extent and meas
ure that rates on the said products
are reduced on interstate shipments
and that the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad company and all other rail
road companies within the state o.
North Carolina that may have col
lected on any shipment, originating
since January I, Of agricultural, pro
ducts and live stock enumerated II
the said tariffs.