Show REASONS FOR ADVERSE ACTION A TION ON I FULTON BILL ILL GIVEN BY MR ELKINS w Mi Feb Si Senator Elkins airman of the senate committee on int tp commerce presented a report t f th hf senate today in support of the adverse action on the tho Ful on bill which hleb would authorize a sue SUB lIlon by bv the interstate commerce ion M a proposed change of hI s by a railroad protest from a ac aThe The c report frt says sa s Too Much Power Th conf erring upon UK tilt commission 11 Wr 1 to suspend a rate advanced thir iT up jp n the A do filling of a protest Dy by b sapper h pr or In the discretion di of the taken in connection with r o M ison ion of If the statutes which gives 1 tho n the power to fix ate t t and designate th the time not longer In III tw two 0 years that It should remain that rc Would 1 ultimately turn over ov r to t of er administrative body the function initiating the r rates 68 of the thc entire It ll would offer a premium to I r rr en shipper to enter a protest to the ther r V r rates whether they wore were were ron rca t abir nr Of unreasonable even if lion I Wa vested in the commission If I Protest prepared by bo skilled attorneys a prima facia ease of or I advance of the rate and offers Sq for an investigation be ba rute lure lite it t must be acted upon an official body on which was as imposed the tho responsibility to act would be constrained to suspend the rate until a final natiOn of the complaint The existing law permits any ship shipper shipper shipper per to protest any rate rato that has gone into effect The Thc Th hearing of tho the protest is made matle without formal pleadings and the tho commission slon is authorized then to determine the question whether the Ule rate put pilL Into effect by the carrier ws was a reasonable rate or not and if I not nol to tomake tomake tomake make the rate reasonable rca I Shippers Can Recover If this the th decision i is II that tho the rate is unreasonable a judgment may be ren ron rendered rendEred dered in favor of the thc protestant for the thc difference between what the commission determines in JI a reasonable rate and the thc rate fixed by the carrier with Ith 6 per percent percent percent cent Interest from the date of the thc over oer overcharge overcharge charge If Ie on the other hand band this amendment should receive the approval of congress and the rate rale tiled flIed by the carrier should be protested and then suspended by the commission In the multiplicity of duties Imposed upon that tribunal considerable time would elapse before a final determination of the question could be reached During that period the carrier would be re receiving the old rates and If Ie the com corn commission commissIon mission finally decided the advance was reasonable no reparation could be bea awarded warded a I |