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Show COiiEiE COURT IPSM1ISS1 Permanently Suspends and Enjoins the Order in Sugar Lighterage Case. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. The commerce com-merce court today permanently suspended and enjoined the order of the Interstate commerce commission in the sugar lighterage light-erage ease- The order required the railroads rail-roads concerned lo cease the payment of allowaiaeii lo Arbuckle Rros. for the lighterage o"f sugar from Brooklyn to I he New Jersey terminal of the railroads when such allowances were not paid to I he Federal Sugar Refining company Tin; court held the interstate commerce commission com-mission had exceeded Us authority. Tlie intercalate commerce commission held thai the Federal Sugar Refining company w:us being discriminated against because of the lighterage allowances of from to I.J cents per hundred pounds given to tlie Arbuckle company, The Federal company originally brought the suit ou the basis of shipments from Its refineries at Yonkcrs, The commission commis-sion dismissed that complaint because Yonkers was outside the lighterage Jlmita of New York harbor ' The Fed cm I company then moved Its offices to New York, brought its sugar from Yonkers lo pier North river, and again demanded the allowance. Tho court declared the shipping of the augar from plor 'J! lo the Jersey terminals by tlie Ren Franklin Transportation Trans-portation company Is a plain "device ami subterfuge' Indulged In on behalf of tlie Federal Sugar Refining company for tlie purpose of making II seem that sugar which Is being lightered from Yonkers was in fact shipped from pier 2) by a delivery de-livery of the same at that point to tho pH (Doners (the railroads) when the uncontradicted un-contradicted record shows that the petitioners peti-tioners have nothing to do with the sugar of l lie Federal Sugar Refining company until it reaches thc New Jersey shore and Is there delivered to petitioners." |