There is a statement concerning it in the I. C. C. Rep. 1896, p. 81, but it does not bring out the facts at the core of the matter as stated to me by the railway men. Footnote 82: 8 I. C. C. Decis. 1898, p. 316. Footnote 83: I. C. C. Rep. 1894, p. 9. Footnote 84: It was held in the Nichols case (66 P. A. C. Rep. 768) that where a shipper orders cars to be delivered at a certain date, the company’s action in filling subsequent orders before complying with the first is unlawful. (Oregon Short Line.) Footnote 85: Report, Texas Railway Commission, 1896, p. 11. Footnote 86: The Commission holds that the difference must not be so great as to be destructive of competition between large and small dealers. (5 I. C. C. Decis. 638, following Thurber _v._ New York Central, Delaware & Lackawanna, B. & O.; and 3 I. C. C. Decis. p. 473, March, 1890; Rep. 1890, p. 87.) Many articles of groceries were so classified as to make the difference between carload rates and less-than-carload rates unjustly great in violation of the principles of the Interstate Act. Footnote 87: Industrial Commission, iv, 207. Footnote 88: Paine _v._ Lehigh Valley R. R., 7 I. C. C. Decis. 1897, p. 218. Footnote 89: 9 I. C. C. Decis. 78; 1901 Rep. 38. Footnote 90: 5 I. C. C. Decis. 663. Footnote 91: 7 I. C. C. Decis. 43. Footnote 92: 8 I. C. C. Decis. 214, 1898. See also 4 I. C. C. Decis. 417. and 7 I. C. C. Decis. 481, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul case, held that a higher rate on wheat than on flour is unjust. Footnote 93: 8 I. C. C. Decis. 304. See also 3 I. C. C. Decis. 400, and 4 I. C. C. 417. Footnote 94: 4 I C. C. Decis. 1891, p. 733: N. Y. Central, Pa., B. & O., C. B. & Q., Wabash, Santa Fe, etc.,—a whole page full of railroads. Footnote 95: Rice cases, Nos. 51–60, I. C. C. Decis. 1887, 65, 131. Footnote 96: Rice _v._ R. R., 4 I. C. C. Decis. 131; 5 _ibid._, 193, 415. Railroads commenced charging for barrel packages in 1888, and in a case tried in 1892 against the Reading, Boston & Maine, and other roads the Commission ordered them to cease, but they did not, and damages were awarded two years later from 1888 to 1894. A similar order to desist from charging for the barrel was issued against the Pennsylvania in September 1890 and it complied. I. C. C. Rep. 1895, pp. 33–35. Footnote 97: Trust Investigation, Congress, 1888, pp. 531–533, 646–647. Footnote 98: Testimony, Rice cases, 1 I. C. C. Decis. 28. Footnote 99: See Trust Investigation, Congress, 1888, pp. 598–599. Footnote 100: Lloyd’s “Wealth against the Commonwealth,” pp. 427, 480–481. Footnote 101: U. S. Industrial Commission, iv, 53. Footnote 102: 4 I. C. C. Decis. 158. Footnote 103: Senate Committee, 1905, 3457. Footnote 104: Testimony of McCabe, Pennsylvania traffic manager, I. C. C. Beef Hearing, Dec. 1901, pp. 101, 102, 103. Footnote 105: _Ibid._, pp. 101, 102. Footnote 106: