Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Assailing Sea Traffic Pool. [ARTICLE]

Assailing Sea Traffic Pool.

Before the Interstate Commerce Commission the Cosmopolitan Shipping Company, through Philadelphia, agents, filed reply to tha demurrer of the big ocean lines comprising the Baltic pool. The pool is charged with dictating rates and lines to differ ent communities, givlDg rebates and otherwise conspiring to create a monopoly in restraint of trade. The defendant's demurrer had held that the commission had no Jurisdiction over traffic between points in the United States and in other countries, or vice versa. The Cosmopolitan replies that if these practices are allowed to go on the trunk line rates will be completely upset, and asks tbs commission to investigate.