| Show RAILROADS ARE VERY SLOW IN SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS t Interstate Commerce Commission Comm May Call the Attention of Con Congress Congress Congress gress to the Matter Washington Dec 38 In a decision by the interstate commission handed down dow today involving a claim of twenty ea in an overcharge on freight against the Aberdeen A Ashboro Aa boro Railway pa ny and other lines railroads generally v r C e g severely reprimanded for their thur de Ut delay lay in adjusting their eking oJai where there has been a palpable overcharge overcharges L L UL me lao railway cauway nan a Inc over overcharge i r charge but did ROt not settle etUe with the ship s lip lippel i iper per pel until the tho th latter had exhausted or ordinary i methods method of collection and finally I had filed a formal fOrmal complaint with the I commission comm L i If carriers persist in their delay the commission intimates it may ma be under the necessity of at calling the attention of ot Congress to the matter maiLer Commissioner Harlan fa in writing the report of the tho commission says From shippers in all parts of the I country and from local traffic associations associations which are making earnest efforts on fair and reasonable lines to secure uniformity in n the practices of carriers carrier I in this regard many complaints have been received in the last lat year ear of or tie the I Inattention of carriers to tj plain over OH overcharge overcharge charge barge claims and of their delay in adjusting them And a survey surey of these complaints has led Jed us UI to the conclusion I that this practice or rather lack of practice among carriers is open to 10 II se SP severe severe vere ere criticism II A substantial portion Ir rf t tJ tine time i and aDd ot of this is ia tea I U I 1 i r to Inc effort to se ure through r mal correspondence the of claims of this ohai ami it ittu ofa a burden tu den from which v we e ought to t I 1 Jived by carriers on in n the oilier i t d ci iron from the shippers pont p nt of view viewing ic cv Ii i ing in connection WI h transports n 11 i vexing and amid I r liat ha m e 6 eaI aI 1 and d h i ill in lent l I Ii the tp f fj fI j I up u tri Of f ji ill 1 UH II claim c d ii securing its it t mu Inch The rhe r tie tle pr n that all c l i is 18 s of t is el ele n nacter after aeter li uI 1 h n e ei l ami an allt y v OJ the uTie wi ty ua tia s iLl uil n 11 r special acs ae a t H I nore nure n r than hau days should lit It litand t for tOI t r rand and al add s that il H w expert expect the dial ia in r f carriers carl ers in t request 1 I hi I ii t 4 department t e eH I so Sc ive more pin pt Jr I j jIn In another case decided lo today a mating in Chicago the complains na I 1 died dlf before his hil claim n I l h f justel ted and the iJ i iI n i ito 3 I kaR ia t Yort h 1 I to In I PHY pa y the tl thi amount o of tile the claim laiu o or c r |
