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Mr. E. C. Renwiek: j r Los Angeles, July 26, B-Replying to the letters of Messrs. Wedekind and Bradshaw, relative to proposed exchange of weight agreements and weight schedules by the rail lines with the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association: However, I note that neither of these gentlemen have touched on the meat of the whole proposition as I consider it, and that is,— that these weight agreements are in effect a statement of weights of commodities, and that these statements are based on facts and for the purpose of avoiding the necessity for reweighing by the carriers in order to ascertain the facts that under these agreements are placed in the hands of the rail lines by the shippers. Furthermore, these weight agreements are subject to verification from time to time by the carriers’ representatives, and I cannot conceive how they could be considered as a disclosure of the shippers’ interests or business, if the rail lines and steamship lines enter into an arrange­ment where they can jointly and safely avail themselves of these weight agreements. shipper would be in the case the shipper used false weights, and in that case the feature of unlawfulness would rest with the shipper and not with the carriers. by the rail lines of facts concerning weight agreements, and the promulga­tion of the same information between rail lines and steamship lines. I quite agree with Mr. Bradshaw’s statements so far as they go. The only disclosure that might result to the disadvantage of the Personally, I cannot see any difference between the promulgation W. F. Line-1" k