[EXPRESS TARIFFS AND CLASSIFICATIONS.] Mixed shipments, rates for.... Name of issuing company or agent... Notice: All changes at least 30 days.... Thirty days does not apply to index of tariffs. Less than statutory, when permitted, shown on title-page. Officer, name, title, and address on tariff... Participating carrier, name, form, and concurrence number must be snown.. Planograph may be used for tariffs... Postage, tariffs must be free of all claims. Participating carrier, name, form and concurrence number. Reissued when 25 per cent of tariff.... Switching, tariff must show charge or reference. Table of contents unless title-page sufficient... Tariffs: Addressed to Auditor, I. C. C., Washington, D. C... Containing reissued items in effect less than thirty days must show Rule. 7 За 14 11 14 3g 4b 1 14 24 1 6 7 4i 40 14 13 24 4i 4i 4h 14 12 1 4h 12 9 8 9 9 3h 15 9 10 4a 14 Р 9 13 1 14 Not conforming, subject to rejection. P On file August 1, 1908, recognized... Printed form may have rates in ink or typewriter for filing and posting.. CONFERENCE RULINGS OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Issued May 7, 1908. [Index to Conference Rulings, See Post, Page 806.] These rulings have been made by the Commission in conference, on the dates indicated, upon questions raised or submitted in correspondence. November 4, 1907. 1. Passes to Caretakers.-An employee of a produce company was granted a pass for the purpose of going to a point on the carrier's lines and returning as caretaker of a carload of bananas. He was not able to secure a return shipment. Held, That the carrier must collect the full fare. (See No. 37.) 2. Tariffs distinguishing between shipments handled by steam and electrical power.-Amendment to tariff provided: "The above rates will only apply on shipments handled by steam power and will not apply when handled by electrical power." Held, That the limitation of the rates to shipments handled by steam power is unlawful and must be eliminated from the tariff. 3. Collection of undercharges.-The Commission adheres to its previous ruling that carriers must exhaust their legal remedies to collect undercharges from consignees. November 11, 1907. 4. Rates on new lines.-Rule 44 of Tariff Circular No. 14-A, providing that rates may be established in the first instance on "new lines" without notice, was intended to apply to newly constructed lines only. (See Rule 57, Tariff Circular 15 A.) 5. Free storage creating distributing point for private industry.-Its attention being called to a tariff which, in effect, created a distributing point for a special industry by granting it free storage at that point, either in its own or the carrier's warehouses, and practically without limit as to time, the merchandise when shipped out to go on balance of through rate, the Commission expressed its disapproval. 6. Reconsignment rule will not be given retroactive effect.-A shipment consigned to one point was reconsigned en route to another, the tariff containing no reconsignment privilege. As a consequence local rates to and from the reconsigning point were applied and made higher than the through rate. Held, Under subsequent tariff that did not reduce rates, but incorporated a reconsignment privilege, that the benefit of such privilege could not be applied retroactively to a previous shipment, and can not be accepted as the basis for a refund on special reparation docket. November 18, 1907. 7. Commissions on import traffic. The granting by carriers of commissions to persons acting as consignees on import traffic is a practice that can not be sanctioned. 8. Demurrage charges resulting from strikes.-The Commission has no power to relieve carriers from the obligations of tariffs providing for demurrage charges, on the ground that such charges have been occasioned by a strike. 9. Free transportation by carriers for one another.—Where stock in one railway company is owned by another railway company, but both maintain separate organizations and report separately to the Commission, they may not lawfully carry freight free for each other. |