The heart of the railroad problem / The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countries

by Frank Parsons

[85]. Report, Texas Railway Commission, 1896, p. 11.

[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.

[87]. Industrial Commission, iv, 207.

[88]. Paine v. Lehigh Valley R. R., 7 I. C. C. Decis. 1897, p. 218.

[89]. 9 I. C. C. Decis. 78; 1901 Rep. 38.

[90]. 5 I. C. C. Decis. 663.

[91]. 7 I. C. C. Decis. 43.

[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.

[93]. 8 I. C. C. Decis. 304. See also 3 I. C. C. Decis. 400, and 4 I. C. C. 417.

[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.