Weirton, W. Va., to and from Ohio. Passenger fares, 220.

Wellsburg, W. Va., to and from Ohio. Passenger fares, 220.

West Coplay, Pa., to W., B. & A. stations. Cement; joint rates, 264.

Western classification territory. Rating on paint or varnish spraying booths, 282.

Western territory. Livestock, 107.

West Point, Ga., from various points. Horses and mules, 6.

West Virginia to and from Ohio and West Virginia. Passenger fares, 220.

West Virginia to various destinations, fabricated in transit at Parkersburg, W. Va. Iron and steel, 363.

West Virginia mines to various destinations. Coal; divisions, 197.

Wickliffe, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio. Brick, 439.

Williston, N. Dak., from Marseilles and East St. Louis, Ill. Prepared roofing and roofing material, 65.

Willmar, Minn., from Marseilles and East St. Louis, Ill. Prepared roofing and roofing material, 65.

Wilsonburg, W. Va., from Port Owen, N. Y. Electric blasting caps, 213.

Winters, Ky., to Seven Mile Road yard, Detroit, Mich. Coal, 392.

Winton, Pa., to Detroit, Mich. Anthracite coal, 349.

Wisconsin from California and Oregon. Lumber and forest products, 125. Wyoming from Marseilles and East St. Louis, Ill. Prepared roofing and roofing material, 65.

Wyoming region, Pa., to New York. Anthracite coal, 193.

Yamachiche, Quebec, Canada, to Baltimore, Md. Bog iron ore, 135.

Yankton, S. Dak., from Marseilles and East St. Louis, Ill. Prepared roofing and roofing material, 65.

Zanesville, Ohio, to Seattle, Wash., for export. Steel articles, 86.

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INDEX DIGEST.

[The numbers in parentheses following citations indicate pages on which subjects are considered.]

ABSORPTION. See also SWITCHING.

Contention that assessment of switching charges in addition to line-haul rate against shippers taking delivery on public team tracks, and absorption of such charges in the case of industries served by private tracks results in undue prejudice, Held: Rate adjustment within Chicago district is exceedingly complex and ordinary prudence dictates that the Commission should not prescribe a change in this adjustment or require a reduction in any specific rate therein, except after careful examination of all the facts, both as regards the rate itself and also its relation to the general adjustment. Silica Sand Producers Asso. v. C., B. & Q. R. R. Co., 217 (219).

Following Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co. v. G. N. Ry. Co., 49 I. C. C., 302, absorption by one carrier of the line-haul charges of another as a means of establishing through rates, found unlawful. Commodity Rates on Brick from Danville to Bronson, Ill., 277 (278).

ACTUAL WEIGHT. See WEIGHT.

ADJACENT FOREIGN COUNTRY. See CANADA; MEXICO.

ADJUSTMENT OF RATES. See also RELATIONSHIP OF RATES; RELATIVE RATES.

The most practicable way of correcting the maladjustment of rates on horses and mules from various points to destinations in Alabama and Georgia found to be the establishment of the distance rates to all points in the southeast suggested at the hearing. Hudson Mule Co. v. L. & N. R. R. Co., 6 (13).

Upon complaint seeking elimination of the general increases in rates on ordinary live stock within the western and mountain-Pacific groups established pursuant to general order No. 28 and Increased Rates, 1920, 58 I. C. C., 220, based primarily on economic considerations, the contention being that it is impossible for the industry to thrive under the present rates, and that they tend to injure business generally, Held: Rates as a whole, found not unjust or unreasonable but basis of readjustment suggested and record held open. National Live Stock Shippers' League v. A., T. & S. F. Ry. Co., 107.

If it be true that the Commission may find existing rates unjust and unreasonable, and require that they be reduced below what would be justified by standards heretofore recognized, because an industry is not prospering, then the converse must be true, that at times when the industry prospers the Commission may find justified rates higher than those which under accepted standards would be just and reasonable. The foundations of what is just and reasonable are not set on such shifting sands. Id. (116).

ADJUSTMENT OF RATES-Continued.

Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, modified in so far as it prescribes between Natchez, Miss., and points in western Louisiana c. 1. commodity rates on brick; on grain and grain products and hay and straw, for distances in excess of 180 miles; and on flour; by substituting therefor the maximum distance scale and minima herein prescribed. Natchez Chamber of Commerce v. L. & A. Ry. Co., 288 (298-299). Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, rates between Vicksburg, Miss., and points in western Louisiana on various commodities found unreasonable for the future to extent they exceed rates on the same commodities for like distances between Natchez, Miss., and points in Western Louisiana. Id. (299).

Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, modified to provide that the description applicable in connection with rates on junk, and stop-over arrangements applicable in connection with rates on scrap iron and junk between Natchez, Miss., and points in western Louisiana shall be the same as those applicable in connection with rates in effect between Shreveport, La., and points in Texas common-point territory. Id. (299).

Rates on cattle, sheep, and hogs from Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and related points to Knoxville, Tenn., found not unreasonable as compared with lower rates from Nashville to points other than Knoxville and from Knoxville to other points. Maladjustment found to result in undue prejudice and removal required by establishment of the distance scale approved in Hudson Mule Co., 63 I. C. C., 6. East Tennessee Packing Co. v. Director General, as Agent, 322. ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS. See RULES OF PRACTICE; TARIFF CIRCULAR

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ADVANCE IN RATES. See also DOUBLE INCREASE.

Booths, spraying, paint or varnish: Proposed rating of double first-class in official, southern, and western classifications on, any quantity, found justified on shipments set up, but a rating higher than one and one-half times first class on such shipments when knocked down, found not justified. Ratings on Paint or Varnish Spraying Booths, 282.

Brick:

Rate for switching brick between points within the switching limits of Sioux City, Iowa, as increased by the Director General under general order No. 28, found unreasonable to extent it exceeded the rate on higher grade and lighter loading commodities. Reparation awarded. Sioux City Brick & Tile Co. v. Director General, as Agent, 211.

Proposed cancellation of switching charges on, from Danville, Ill., to Bronson, Ill., destined beyond, leaving in effect higher combination rates found not justified. Proposed cancellation was the outgrowth of a dispute between the carriers over divisions. Commodity Rates on Brick from Danville to Bronson, Ill., 277.

Cement: Proposed cancellation of joint rates on, from certain points in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to destinations on the W., B. & A. E. R. R., an electric line, leaving in effect, in certain instances, higher combination rates, found not justified. Cement to W., B. & A. Stations, 264.

ADVANCE IN RATES-Continued.

Coal, anthracite : Proposed increased rates on, from the Wyoming, Lehigh, and Schuylkill regions in Pennsylvania to stations in New York, designed to provide substantially the same rates for one-line as for jointline hauls to common points, and to equalize the relationship of the various communities with each other, found not justified. Difference between one-line and joint-line rates too great and while removal of the inequalities is desirable, any increase of the basic rates, established after thorough investigation in Rates for the Transportation of Anthracite Coal, 35 I. C. C., 220, requires clear proof of reasonableness which the record does not contain. Anthracite Coal to New York Stations, 193.

Express rates:

Proposed increased express rates on interstate traffic between points in Maine on the Bangor & Aroostook R. R. found not justified. While operating conditions on that line are more difficult than on other roads in the same zone, this fact in and of itself would not justify applying a different basis of rates than is in effect over such other lines. To hold otherwise would obviously involve abandonment of the present zone system approved in Express Rates, Practices, Accounts, and Revenues, 24 I. C. C., 380, and 28 I. C. C., 131. Express Rates on Bangor & Aroostook R. R., 452.

Fact that the divisions of express rates accruing to the rail carrier are inequitable affords no justification for increasing those rates. Id. (454).

Live stock: Upon complaint seeking elimination of the general increases in rates on ordinary live stock within the western and mountain-Pacific groups established pursuant to general order 28 and Increased Rates, 1920, 58 I. C. C., 220, based primarily on economic considerations, the contention being that it is impossible for the industry to thrive under the present rates, and that they tend to injure business generally, Held: Rates, as a whole, found not unjust or unreasonable but basis or readjustment suggested and record held open. National Live Stock Shippers' League v. A., T. & S. F. Ry. Co., 107.

Lumber and forest products: Proposal of carriers to withdraw from participation in joint rates, due to dissatisfaction with divisions, found not justified. Proposed withdrawal would result in higher combination rates which would be relatively unreasonable, and disagreements among carriers relative to divisions do not justify cancellation of joint rates. Lumber Rates from Pacific Coast, 125.

Milk and cream:

Proposed rule requiring a minimum of 6,120 quarts on 1. c. 1. shipments of milk and cream in open-iced cars found not justified but respondents authorized to establish a rule requiring a minimum of 5,100 quarts as a condition precedent to the use of special baggage or open-ice car service, approved in Albree Case, 22 I. C. C., 303, 322. Minimum on Less-than-Carload Milk and Cream, 448.

The percentage of increase in milk and cream rates authorized in Increased Rates, 1920, 58 I. C. C., 220, dealt only with rates and did not relate to increases in the minimum quantities of milk and cream required for shipment. Id. (448).

ADJUSTMENT OF RATES-Continued.

Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, modified in so far as it prescribes between Natchez, Miss., and points in western Louisiana c. 1. commodity rates on brick; on grain and grain products and hay and straw, for distances in excess of 180 miles; and on flour; by substituting therefor the maximum distance scale and minima herein prescribed. Natchez Chamber of Commerce v. L. & A. Ry. Co., 288 (298-299). Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, rates between Vicksburg, Miss., and points in western Louisiana on various commodities found unreasonable for the future to extent they exceed rates on the same commodities for like distances between Natchez, Miss., and points in Western Louisiana. Id. (299).

Upon further hearing, original report 58 I. C. C., 610, modified to provide that the description applicable in connection with rates on junk, and stop-over arrangements applicable in connection with rates on scrap iron and junk between Natchez, Miss., and points in western Louisiana shall be the same as those applicable in connection with rates in effect between Shreveport, La., and points in Texas common-point territory. Id. (299).

Rates on cattle, sheep, and hogs from Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and related points to Knoxville, Tenn., found not unreasonable as compared with lower rates from Nashville to points other than Knoxville and from Knoxville to other points. Maladjustment found to result in undue prejudice and removal required by establishment of the distance scale approved in Hudson Mule Co., 63 I. C. C., 6. East Tennessee Packing Co. v. Director General, as Agent, 322. ADMINISTRATIVE RULINGS. See RULES OF PRACTICE; TARIFF CIRCULAR

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ADVANCE IN RATES. See also DOUBLE INCREASE.

Booths, spraying, paint or varnish: Proposed rating of double first-class in official, southern, and western classifications on, any quantity, found justified on shipments set up, but a rating higher than one and one-half times first class on such shipments when knocked down, found not justified. Ratings on Paint or Varnish Spraying Booths, 282.

Brick:

Rate for switching brick between points within the switching limits of Sioux City, Iowa, as increased by the Director General under general order No. 28, found unreasonable to extent it exceeded the rate on higher grade and lighter loading commodities. Reparation awarded. Sioux City Brick & Tile Co. v. Director General, as Agent, 211.

Proposed cancellation of switching charges on, from Danville, Ill., to Bronson, Ill., destined beyond, leaving in effect higher combination rates found not justified. Proposed cancellation was the outgrowth of a dispute between the carriers over divisions. Commodity Rates on Brick from Danville to Bronson, Ill., 277.

Cement: Proposed cancellation of joint rates on, from certain points in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania to destinations on the W., B. & A. E. R. R., an electric line, leaving in effect, in certain instances, higher combination rates, found not justified. Cement to W., B. & A. Stations, 264.