XVI.

PRINTING OF PLEADINGS, ETC.

Pleadings, depositions, briefs, and other papers of importance, shall be printed or in typewriting, and when not printed only one side of the paper shall be used.

XVII.

COPIES OF PAPERS OR TESTIMONY.

Copies of any petition, complaint, or answer in any matter or proceeding before the Commission, or of any order, decision, or opinion by the Commission, will be furnished without charge, upon application to the Secretary by any person or carrier party to the proceeding.

One copy of the testimony will be furnished by the Commission for the use of the complainant, and one copy for the use of the defendant, without charge; and when two or more complainants or defendants have appeared at the hearing, such complainants or defendants must designate to whom the copy for their use shall be delivered.

XVIII.

COMPLIANCE WITH ORDERS AGAINST CARRIERS.

Upon the issuance of an order against any carrier or carriers, after hearing, investigation, and report by the Commission, such carrier or carriers must promptly, upon compliance with its requirements, notify the Secretary that action has been taken in conformity with the order; and when a change in rates is required, such notice must be given in addition to the filing of a schedule or tariff showing such change in rates.

XIX.

APPLICATION BY CARRIERS UNDER PROVISO CLAUSE OF FOURTH SECTION.

Any common carrier may apply to the Commission, under the proviso clause of the fourth section, for authority to charge for the transportation of like kind of property less for a longer than for a shorter distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance. Such application shall be by verified petition, which shall specify the places and traffic involved, the rates charged on such traffic for the shorter and longer distances, the carriers other than the petitioner which may be interested in the traffic, the character of the hardship claimed to exist, and the extent of the relief sought by the petitioner. Upon the filing of such a petition, the Commission will take such action as the circumstances of the case seem to require.

XX.

INFORMATION TO PARTIES.

The Secretary of the Commission will, upon request, advise any party as to the form of petition, answer, or other paper necessary to be filed in any case, and furnish such information from the files of the Commission as will conduce to a full presentation of facts material to the controversy.

XXI.

ADDRESS OF THE COMMISSION.

All complaints concerning anything done or omitted to be done by any common carrier, and all petitions or answers in any proceeding, or applications in relation thereto, and all letters and telegrams for the Commission, must be addressed to Washington, D. C., unless otherwise specially directed.

The petition of the above-named complainant respectfully shows: I. That (here let complainant state his occupation and place of business).

II. That the defendant above named is a common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers and property by railroad between points in the State of and points in the State of and as such common carrier is subject to the provisions of the act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

III. That (here state concisely the matters intended to be complained of. Continue numbering each succeeding paragraph as in Nos. I, II, and III).

Wherefore the petitioner prays that the defendant may be required to answer the charges herein, and that after due hearing and investigation an order be made commanding the defendant to cease and desist from said violations of the act to regulate commerce, and for such other and further order as the Commission may deem necessary in the premises. (The prayer may be varied so as to ask also for the ascertainment of lawful rates or practices and an order requiring the carrier to conform thereto. If reparation for any wrong or injury be desired, the petitioner should state the nature and extent of the reparation he deems proper.)

Dated at

190-.

A. B.

(Complainant's signature.)

Complaint of Unreasonable Charges.

[Filed with Commission.]

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

To the Honorable Interstate Commerce Commissioners:

(I.) Your petitioners complain of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company and respectfully represent: That on the 13th day of June, A. D. 1887, your petitioners shipped from the City of Colfax, in the Territory of Washington, to the City of Portland, in the State of Oregon, two car loads of wheat, to wit: 122 sacks of wheat of the weight of 20,000 pounds on one car, and 230 sacks of wheat of the weight of 30,000 pounds on the other car. That the said two car loads of wheat were loaded on said cars at your petitioners' sole expense, and were delivered to said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for transportation to Portland, Oregon, as aforesaid, on said 30th day of June, A. D. 1887. That the distance from the said City of Colfax, in Washington Territory, to Portland, Oregon, does not exceed 320 miles. That the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, against the protests of your petitioners, have charged your petitioners for transporting the said two car loads of wheat the said 320 miles, the full sum of $175, or at the rate of $7 for each ton of 2000 pounds.

(II.) Your petitioners further aver that it is stated in the annual report of the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for 1886, that the total cost of all property of every description owned by said Company, including ocean steamers, river and sound boats, barges and wharves, is $32,924,433.72; while its net income from railroad earnings alone was, as appears by the same report, $2,256,589.78, or 6 8/10 per cent. on the whole nominal investment of that Company, without counting its earnings from other sources. That during the same year that Company transported over its railroad lines 123,413,669 tons of freight and merchandise, and that the average price it received for transporting merchandise from Portland, Oregon, to Colfax, Washington Territory, was in excess of $30 per ton.

(III.) Your petitioners further allege that the rates recommended by the railroad commissioners of the State of Oregon, for the transportation of wheat from points in the State of Oregon, equi-distant from said Portland, Oregon, with the City of Colfax, in Washington Territory, and reached by the line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, is $4. per ton, or $3 per ton less than the said Company has charged your petitioners.

(IV.) Your petitioners further allege that the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company has agreed to make a rate from points in Columbia county, Washington Territory, as far from Portland, Oregon, as is the City of Colfax, for the transportation of wheat and other grains over the

line of said railroad to said Portland, Oregon, of $5 per ton, while still continuing the rate from said Colfax at $7 per ton, thus charging your petitioners, and all other handlers of grain in Colfax, $2 per ton more for transporting their wheat the same distance than is charged the wheat raisers and buyers shipping from said points in Columbia county.

(V.) And your petitioners further allege that the sum of $7 per ton for the transportation of wheat as aforesaid from Colfax, Washington Territory, to Portland, Oregon, is unjust and unreasonable; and that a just and reasonable charge for such transportation is $3.50 per ton, which is approximately the rate fixed for a haul of the same distance by the Illinois State law.

(VI.) Wherefore, your petitioners pray that you may direct the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company to reimburse to your petitioners the sum of $87.50, the sum paid by your petitioners to the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company for the transportation of said two car loads of wheat to Portland, Oregon, in excess of a just and reasonable freight charge. And your petitoners further pray that the said Oregon Railway & Navigation Company may be required to establish a rate for the transportation of grain from Colfax, Washington Territory, to Portland, Oregon, not in excess of $3.50 per ton.

MCCLAINE, WADE & CO.,
By ALFRED COOLIDGE,
Member of Firm.

Complaint of Discrimination.

[Filed with Commission.]

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

BOSTON & ALBANY R. R. Co.

v.

NATIONAL DESPATCH LINE.

BOSTON, Mass., May 21, 1887.

To the Honorable, the Interstate Commerce Commission:

(I.) Respectfully represents the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, a corporation established in the States of Massachusetts and New York, that the Boston and Lowell Railroad Company, a Massachusetts corporation; the Concord Railroad Company, New Hampshire corporation; the Northern Railroad Company, a New Hampshire corporation; the Central Vermont Railroad Company, a Vermont corporation, and the Grand Trunk Railway Company, established by the laws of Canada, have issued schedules of joint rates under the name of the National Despatch Line.