ENFORCEMENT OF RATES LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 13, 1904. In the matter of through billing: This cause coming on to be heard, the following railroad companies appeared by their agents: The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company by Ben S. Johnson, Attorney, and D. E. King, Division Freight Agent; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway by E. B. Pierce, Attorney, and after hearing the statements of said railroad companies by their attorneys, and the Commission being well and sufficiently advised in the premises, doth make the following order: ORDER. It is hereby ordered that all persons, companies or corporations, operating any railroad in this State, that forms part of a continuous line of railway communication to any point in this State, shall way bill through at through rates and tolls from point of departure to point of arrival without being rebilled at junction points, all freight and traffic carried wholly within this State, to and from stations on lines of continuous carriage as aforesaid, and in case of carload freights, the forwarding carrier shall receive and forward the same in the car or cars in which the freight is tendered, without breaking bulk of package. This order to become effective May 12, 1904. LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 12, 1901. Louisiana & Northwest Railroad Company VS. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company. Application for Division of Joint Rate. This being the day heretofore set for the hearing of this cause, the Louisiana & Northwest Railway Company appeared by their Attorney, W. B. Smith, and J. D. Beardsley, General Manager; and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company came not, and after considering the matter, and the Commission being well and sufficiently advised in the premises, it is ordered that the division of the Joint Through Rate between Louisiana and Northwest Railway and St. Louis Southwestern Railway shall be made on a revenue basis. And the Secretary is instructed to mail to said roads a copy of the following order: LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 12, 1904. It is on this day ordered that the division of the Joint Through Freight Rate between the Louisiana & Northwest Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, on business between points in Arkansas, on the said Louisiana & Northwest Railroad and St. Louis Southwestern Railway shall be made upon a revenue basis, each road receiving such a part of the amount charged for the joint haul as its local under the Commission's Standard Freight Distance Tariff is part of the sum of the locals of said roads for the same haul under said Standard Distance Tariff. LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 5, 1904. Kansas City Southern Railway Company VS. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. This being the day heretofore set for the hearing of this cause, the Kansas City Southern Railway Company appeared by their agent, C. E. Perkins, Assistant General Freight Agent; and the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company was represented by D. E. King, Division Freight Agent, and after hearing the arguments and statements of said railroads by their representatives, and the Commission being well and sufficiently advised in the premises, it is ordered that the division of the Joint Through Rate between the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway on business between points in Arkansas on said railways, moved via Hope, Frisco Railway and Ashdown, shall be made on a revenue basis. It is further ordered that the Secretary make out a true and perfect transcript of the following order, and forward same to the Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. LITTLE ROCK, TUESDAY, April 5, 1904. It is this day ordered that the Joint Through Freight Rate between the Kansas City Southern Railway and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, on business between points in Arkansas on the said Kansas City Southern Railway and said St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, moved via Hope, Frisco Railway and Ashdown, shall be made upon a revenue basis, each road receiving such part of the amount charged for the joint haul as its local, under the Commissoin's Standard Freight Distance Tariff, is part of the sum of the locals of said roads for the same haul under said Standard Distance Tariff. NOTE.-The following case was brought about by complaint lodged against the Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western Railway by citizens of Hamburg, Arkansas, alleging extortionate rates of freight, and further that this line was owned by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, and as a part of such road that the Commission should apply thereon locally its standard freight distance tariff and that continuous mileage rates should apply between points on the Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western Ry. the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. After a full hearing of the complaint, the Commission ordered the railroads to put in the above rates. Later it was charged that the railroads had failed to put them in, and the Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western Railway was cited to appear before the Commission and answer why it has not obeyed its order. The find. ing of the Commission in the case follows: LITTLE ROCK, ARK., January 12, 1904. In the matter of applying the Commission's Standard Freight Distance Tariff to the Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western Railway, a branch of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway: This cause coming on for hearing, George E. Dodge, Attorney, appearing for the Mississippi River, Hamburg & Western Railway Company, and answered the citation of the Commission, that the order of the Commission issued on Tuesday, November 3, 1903, had been obeyed by said road publishing and putting into effect the rates of the Standard |