Demanding a preference traffic, the Government ought to be willing to pay for it more than express rates. In fact, it pays much less than express rates. The ablest and most competent witness who appeared before the Wolcott Commission on this subject was Henry S. Julier, Vice-President and General Manager of the American Express Company, who said: "Without question, the Government has the cheaper service by far." Mr. Julier further stated that seven pounds is the average weight of packages sent by express, and the seven pound package is the typical express package, and therefore the earnings from carrying such packages are the true index of the rates actually received. Some railroads receive as their compensation fifty per cent of the express company's earnings; the C. B. & Q. receives fifty-seven and a half per cent. Mr. Julier was asked by the Commission to file statements showing from the rates in force exactly the revenue received per hundred-weight by the railroad company from the express in comparison with the mail rates. He filed the following: _Table Showing Rates Received by Railways Per Hundred-weight for Mails and Rates Received for Express Between Points Named._ EXPRESS. 50 per cent of MAIL. express companies' Rate per 100 earnings on fourteen pounds allowed 7-pound packages railroad companies weighing in the under last aggregate 100 weighing, pounds, yields the including the pay railroad companies for post office the rate per 100 Distance. cars. pounds noted below. New York to Buffalo 440 $1.58 $2.80 Chicago 980 3.57 4.55 Omaha 1,480 5.38 5.95 Indianapolis 906 3.27 4.55 Columbus 761 2.49 3.85 East St. Louis 1,171 4.38 4.90 Portland, Me. 347 1.33 2.80 Chicago to Milwaukee 85 .34 2.10 Minneapolis 421 1.83 3.85 New Orleans 922 5.27 5.95 Detroit 284 1.34 2.80 Cincinnati 306 1.20 3.15 Cincinnati to St. Louis 374 1.61 3.15 Chicago 306 1.20 3.15 Cleveland 263 1.26 2.80