Ports of the United States Volume 33-37; Report on Terminal Facilities, Commerce, Port Charges, and Administration at Sixty-Eight Selected Ports (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... are refused to and in connection with vessels not berthing at such wharves and that these defendants refuse to establish rates for the transportation of cotton from points served by their lines to wharves in Mobile located on the rails of other railroad companies and refuse to issue through bills to any steamship line berthing at wharves not reached by their rails. 3. That defendant Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. issues through bills of lading from points served by it for the transportation of cotton through Pensacola, Fla., in preference to Mobile. 4. That defendants and their connections fail and refuse to issue through bills in connection with all responsible steamship lines upon telegraphic or written directions by the steamship agent to the foreign freight agent of the defendant or the agent of the carrier at point of origin. 5. That defendant Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co., Southern Railway Co., and Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. have not established separate terminal charges, applicable at Mobile, for the movement of cotton from or to their points of interchange with each other or from the various wharves located within the switching limits of Mobile. 6. That these defendants have not established and published their charges for transportation of cotton from various points served by them to the Mobile depot or o Report of Interstate Commerce Commission on the Financial Halations, Rates, and Practices of The Louisville & Nashville R. R. et al., 33 L C C Reports, p. 215. b 32 L C C, pp. 272-282. station proper nor the charges for the movement of cotton from the Mobile depot or station proper to all wharves located within the switching limits of Mobile. 7. That the rates charged from points of origin to compress points on uncompres...