Show I CHARGES AGAINST GO GOAre Arc Are Discrimination Concealing Rates and Violating Inter stac Commerce Law LANE MAKING INVESTIGATION Complaint AVni as iI l hy by b CalifornIa to pan pail n Det IT Inter Interstate state stat tat r Frank Franklin lin ha K k I r fans iM today tOIla began be n an n lion ilon Into lb U complaint flied nid with the th against the by b the California association charging chang lh th the ex corn company pan with Ith rate which had been flied filed with the interstate commerce com sloe slon III on und and other violations I of th the inter interstate state commerce law The Tho rh association I ii composed of about Ho 20 wholesale and retail dry goods 0 1 Sirius linn Th rh charge of discrimination are re based upon the refusal of ot the express company to tu transport Imn a n shipment of oC i of ot 4 H IS from Nw New NewYork York to the California Commercial ss ci a In H SRn Seti n Francisco last laI August Augustat Au u t at lit the bulk or quantity rate lite of oC J 5 per hundred pound the company charging charam the tb regular package rate re t tIt It ta t aiM aleo alleged that tha t the express company com pall charged charRed a higher rate tItan than that published and filed flied with the Inter Inte interstate state stute commerce commissIon which WH was wilfully concealed and nd hidden from the public This Thill complaint avers aver IrB that U l lis U is u a distinct violation of ot the Interstate commerce act ad adIn In answer the ex express preen company de tie denies flies nies tell all made mad ami anit charges hargea that the association to tu sub subterfuge subterfuge ull in order to 10 extort unjust din die dl crimination In It its tta own favor and based Nd It its refusal to grant quantity rates upon the shIpment In Iii question on the ground that while consigned to one conell It wa was 11 Intended for more than a score acore ore oret of t firms It was brought out by Commissioner Lane that since Ince the lire fire of ot April 18 nOli 1905 It ha bait required 75 n DO 80 and an even een days daye to get et freight from New York which had forcen many merchants merchant to ship by b express In order to get Rd their goods goode for tor seasons season for fur which they were weN Intended Mr Ir Lane also ato al o elicited by b his qu m put to the witnesses that while freight rates rotell averaged from to I 3 to toa 1 a cent cents u a pound from front New York tu to tuBan tuBan Ban San FrancIsco l the express rats rate I is from front frontS 8 S to SO I 0 cent cant a pound according to the size elze of ot the shipment It developed that In III order to take advantage of ot the tile lowest express rate rat of 8 S cents centa made on shipments of 10 WO to pound H a number num r of the tho th local retail and wholesale merchants formed an nn association which could not separately make such lIuch large shipments These The shipments gathered and for forwarded forwarded forwarded warded from New York from a for tor forwarding forwarding warding agency are consigned to the association and by b It delivered to it its Ita members Because It does doe not constitute a R firm or one concern the express refused to apply the rate on a shipment of pounds charging the a ease aNO ao elation clation 1700 in excess exco The charge of ot concealing rate rat Is In ta Inthe the allegation rondo made that the express eXIre compLIed compiled with the Interstate com coin commerce commerce merce schedule containing the bulk tate rate but did not Post oat I the rate public pubU publicly ly I and It wa was kept locked up tip vo so that the public might not know knoss of ot the low lower lower lower er rate |