Railroads: Rates and RegulationsRipley, William Zebina
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Railroads: Rates and Regulations
Ripley, William Zebina
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates -- United States; Railroads and state -- United States
From Illinois to California 11,800
From Illinois to New Jersey 80,000
From Illinois to Pennsylvania 123,000
From Kentucky to Pennsylvania 1,005
From Kentucky to New York 5,516
From Missouri to Pennsylvania 5,000
From Pennsylvania to Missouri 13,824
From New York to Kentucky 3,357
From New York to Missouri 12,869
From New York to Tennessee 609
From Ohio to Pennsylvania 26,801
From Pennsylvania to Ohio 5,251
From Ohio to New York 211,657
From New York to Ohio 55,243
[264] Debates, II, p. 1646, cited in University of Illinois Studies,
March, 1904, p. 21.
[265] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, I, pp. 32-34. _Cf._ also 10 I.
C. C. Rep., 650. Another good instance on Arizona is in 16 _Idem_, 77.
[266] Page 2031.
[267] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, II, p. 921.
[268] Cullom Committee, II, p. 101.
[269] 10 I.C.C. Rep., 81.
[270] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, II, p. 919.
[271] _Ibid._, p. 1624.
[272] 11 I.C.C. Rep., 508.
[273] Question of Canadian Pacific Freight Differentials, Hearings,
etc., Oct. 12, 1898, p. 17. Privately printed. See also pp. 72 and 116
on the same point.
[274] Record Cincinnati Freight Bureau case, II, p. 306.
[275] Hearings, Question of Canadian Pacific Freight Differentials,
Oct. 12, 1898, p. 55.
[276] U. S. Industrial Commission, IV, p. 134.
[277] 55th Cong., 1st sess., Sen. Doc. No. 39, p. 88.
[278] By water from New York, 1800 miles to New Orleans, with 2489
miles by rail. Or to Galveston 2300 miles with 2666 miles by rail, a
total of 4966 miles. The direct line, all rail, is about 3300 miles.
Allowing constructive mileage of 3 to 1 for water carriage, they are
far from equal.
[279] Texas cotton bound for Yokohama by way of Seattle.
[280] On these matters the Record of the Business Men's League of St.
Louis case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, 9 Int. Com.
Rep., 318; and the Hearings on Canadian Pacific Differentials are
illuminating.
[281] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, III, p. 1830.
[282] Record before the I.C.C.; Cincinnati Freight Bureau case, I, p.
166.
[283] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, III, pp. 2540-2541.
[284] Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, III, pp. 2538 and 2550.
[285] Briefly discussed in the St. Louis Business Men's League case: 9
Int. Com. Rep., 318.
[286] Testimony, III, p. 2495 _et seq._
[287] The Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Corporations on the
Transportation of Petroleum, 1906, affords admirable examples. _Vide_,
pp. 5, 7, 14 and the map at p. 256.
[288] 23 I.C.C. Rep., 263.
[289] Similar triangular cross-road competition is in evidence in the
Wichita, Kan., cases on export grain, p. 232, _supra_.
[290] 1 I.C.C. Rep., 32; and Industrial Commission, XIX, p. 442.
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