Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-19
|NEWSPR|NT RATES
| REBATE IS ASKED
Compliments Brief on Car.
rier Charges Backed by
Paper Firm.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion should find that rates on news
print paper from mill points to Wash
ington and Baltimore are unjust and
unduly discriminatory. and should
find that compliments and inter-
venors in the case now before the
commission brought by The Evening
Star Newspaper Company and the
Washington Publishers Association
for the compliments and intervenors
maintained in a brief filed today with
the commission.
Another brief was filed by the In
ternational Paper Company, one of
the intervenors in the case. from
which several of the intervening daily
newspapers in Washington and Balti-
more purchase newsprint paper. as
serting that the paper company is lin
complete accord with the position of
the compliments that newsprint
paper must move at rates that are
reasonable and free from unjust dis
elimination"
Pat to Large Expense.
Alleging that the users of news
PRINT paper nave df cddy pcCh put ~
considerable expense from "unduly
high rates." the brief for the COM
plainants urges that the commission
should not any longer permit the car
riers to delay making reasonable and
non-discriminatory rates from mill
points to Washington and Baltimore.
The brief requested that an early
finding be made in the case
Submitted by Mason Mangum. at
torney for the compliments and in
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traffic manager for the Washington
Publishers Association. the brief de-
clares that q reasonable basis for
making the specific rates to Balti-
more and Washington from all mill
points, except the mill points where
the basis should not exceed 80 per
cent of the SIXTH class basis proposed
by trunk line carriers. should not ex-
coed so per cent Of the New England
sixth class scales.
The brief contended that the com
mission should find that any rate to
rate to Baltimore plus 1 cent has been
and Ia unreasonable and unjustly dis
quoting Examiner Hun
ter In the oral argument that for rate
purposes on the commodity in ques--
ton Washington and Baltimore should
be considered Jointly.
Repnratfon Is Asked.
If the compliments and intervenors
prove that they paid the freight
charges on the shipments involved in
the case, the brief asks the commits
sion to find they are entitled to
PREPARATION with interest ate per cent
thereon.
While the brief Of the International
Paper Company agrees with the COM
claimants that news print paper must
move at proper rates, it submits that
the proposal made by compliments
witnesses for q rate basis would Sc
rlously disrupt the present grouping
and destroy the established relation
ships at nearly every point. Mr..
Geoghegan during the argument sub
mitted what he considered a proper
rate structure for news print paper. Il
/. The paper company's brief says the
domestic paper industry has adjust
ed itself to the present group system
and that the blanket adjustment
should not be lightly or unnecessa-
rily disturbed. adding that any change
in the present relationships to the
advantage Of the Canadian producer
would be disastrous to the domestic
mills, some of which might have to
shut down.
In addition to the two complain
ants named, eight other Washington
datlies and four Baltimore publish
ing companies interviewed In the cases
against the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road and the Canadian Pacific rail-
rDad