Show SWITCHING CASE STILL HANGS fiRE Order Abating Spotting Charges Again Is Post Post- CALIFORNIA CASE STILL UNSETTLED Meantime Roads Collect Money They May Hay Be Compelled Corn Com to R Refund fund W WASHINGTON Dee Dec 27 Byan By By an order order or or- der of the interstate commerce commission commission commission commis- commis sion announced today the swit switching hing 1 char charges es exacted by the tho railroads in in Los An Angeles eles and San Frncisco Cal will continue in in effect until March larch 1 1911 at least These exactions a aggregate aggregate gre gate many thousand housand dollars annually About a year a ago o the Associated Jobbers Jobbers Jobbers Job Job- bers of Los An Angeles eles and the Pacific Coast Jobbers' Jobbers and Manufacturers Manufacturers' as- as filed complaints with the commission com corn com mission against the tIle Atchison Topeka Santa Fe and nd the Southern Pacific Pacific at leRin that the switching charges char es of f a car assessed by the defendant da lines on shippers for the the- placing of cars on sidings or spur tracks s was unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable un un- un- un reasonable and discriminatory Th The commission after a full ht hearing ordered the discontinuance of the charge by July I 1 1 10 1010 O. O Subsequently Subsequent Subsequent- ly Iv proceedings s were instituted B in tho the courts by the defendants to to annul the the order of the commission Thereupon the commission pending a de decision ision of the courts extended the effective date of its order to January 1 1 1911 As the time case has not been d decided the commission commission com coni- mission today oday gra granted fed a further extension exten- exten sion of its order until March farch 1 Meantime switching charges are being heing be he- in ing exacted by the railroads If the commissions commission's s 's orders should be event eventually eventual eventual- l. l ly sus sustained by y the courts the ship pers will have ha cause for lor asking reparation reparation reparation tion in a large larre sum from the defendant lines |