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TIME ALLOWED FOR FURNISHING CARS. 



Alabama allows from 2 to 10 days, depending on the number of 

 cars ordered. Arizona and California allow 48 hours and up, depend- 

 ing on the number of cars ordered, and prescribe that orders may 

 not be placed longer than 15 days in advance. Arkansas allows 6 

 days. Colorado and Mississippi allow 5 days. Florida allows 2 

 days for fruit and vegetables, 4 days for other commodities. Georgia, 

 Missouri, and Virginia allow 4 days. Kansas allows from 3 to 10 

 days, depending on the number of cars ordered. Minnesota allows 

 48 hours for terminal points and 72 for intermediate points. North 

 Dakota allows 72 hours. Oklahoma allows from 48 to 144 hours, 

 depending on the number of cars ordered, while Oregon allows from 

 5 to 20 days. South Carohna allows 3 days for perishable commodi- 

 ties and 4 days for other shipments. South Dakota allows from 3 to 6 

 days and Texas from 3 to 8 days, depending on the number of cars 

 ordered. Washington allows from 3 to 10 days, depending on the 

 number of cars ordered, the place where they are wanted, and whether 

 or not the road has daily service at that point, and shorter time is 

 given for Hve stock and perishable freight. 



The States that have gone most into detail in demurrage laws and 

 regulations are agricultural States. While the time allowed carriers 

 for furnishing cars, as shown above, seems excessive in some instances, 

 attention is called to the fact that Florida, South Carolina, and Wash- 

 ington have made specific provision for agriculture by prescribing 

 the shortest possible time within which cars must be furnished to 

 move perishable commodities. 



PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO FURNISH CARS. 



In the matter of penalty imposed for fadure to furnish cars within 

 the prescribed time it is uniformly $1 in aU except eight of the 

 States. In Texas it is 50 cents per day; in Florida, North Dakota, 

 and Oregon it is S2 ; in Arizona and California it is $3 ; and in Arkansas 

 and Kansas it is S5. 



RESULTS OF "RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE. ' 



The Interstate Commerce Commission holds that it has no authority 

 to penalize carriers through "reciprocal demurrage." The imposi- 

 tion of 8ur;h penalties was stoutly resisted by the carriers, but there 

 is now no question of the i-ight to impose them and little question of 

 the benefite accruing therefrom to shippers. While it may not be 

 possible or ndvisable for carriers to ])rovi(]o sufficient equi])ment for 

 the maximum tonnage? offered iit the })usiest H(^asoii of the year, 

 "reciprocal demurrage" has doubtless had the effect of bringing 

 about some increase in tlie siip[)ly of ears, an<l it has at least doiui 



