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BILLS OF LADING

HEARINGS

U.S. Congress, House

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE

OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

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472

Pat 14

ON

S. 19

RELATING TO BILLS OF LADING

MAY 16 TO MAY 24, 1916

PART II

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1916

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BILLS OF LADING.

COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Tuesday, May 16, 1916.

The committee met at 10 o'clock, Hon. William C. Adamson (chairman) presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. I want to make the following correction in the hearings, which have been printed up to date: On page 9 of the volume of the hearings already printed the statement is made, " The Pomerene bill came over here on the 22d of August, 1914." It should be "1912."

The views of the minority, beginning on page 239, should have followed the Stevens bill ending at the bottom of page 231, as the minority report applied to that bill.

STATEMENT OF MR. GEORGE F. MEAD, POST-OFFICE BOX 2353,
BOSTON, MASS.

The CHAIRMAN. Give your name, your address, and your occupation.

Mr. MEAD. George F. Mead, of Boston, representing the National League of Commission Merchants of the United States, and the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange of Boston, Mass.

Mr. Chairman, I learned of this change in the Pomerene bill regarding sections 21 and 22 only a few days ago

The CHAIRMAN (interposing). We have not made any change in it.
Mr. MEAD. The contemplated change.

The CHAIRMAN. There were two witnesses who made an agreement about it; but this committee is not bound by their agreement. We accept their views for what they are worth, and we will accept yours in the same way.

Mr. MEAD. I desire, in behalf of the organizations which I represent, to protest against any change in section 21, with reference to the shipper's load and count. We feel that that measure has been fully investigated; many hearings have been held and a great many shippers from different sections of the country have been here, and they have been very unanimous in their desire that the shipper's loadand-count provision should stand as it is in the Pomerene bill as it came from the Senate.

The CHAIRMAN. In other words, you want to make it compulsory upon the carrier, when the shippers request it, to go and count and certify to what there is in the shipment?

Mr. MEAD. Yes, sir. We feel that that provision as it stands now in the Pomerene bill is a reasonable one and fair not only to the

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