[115]. For many other facts along the same lines, showing rates on flour from the West to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, etc., 6 to 8 cents higher than the rates on wheat, and much lower rates on the same products for export than for domestic use, see Industrial Commission, 1900, iv, 70.
The Interstate Commerce Commission in 1899 found the export rates on corn and wheat much lower than the domestic rates. I. C. C. Rep., 1899, pp. 20–28, 31.
[116]. 8 I. C. C. Decis. 214 n.
[117]. Lewis, “National Consolidation of Railways,” p. 101.
[118]. Industrial Commission, 1900, vol. iv, pp. 441–442. Shippers in Norfolk, Nebr. for example, pay the local rate of 45 cents per cwt. (on first-class goods) to Sioux City on the Missouri River, plus the rate from Sioux City to Chicago, while Fremont, a rival town near Norfolk, has the same rates as Sioux City, the local rate not being added in this case to the Missouri River rate. This gives Fremont manufacturers and shippers a decided advantage over those of Norfolk, and tends to build up Fremont and stunt the growth of Norfolk. The witness suggested that “if the rates were established by the Government instead of at the will and pleasure of the railway managers, it is a natural conclusion that points having the same general conditions would receive equal benefits.”
[119]. Cator’s “Rescue the Republic,” p. 15.
[120]. “National Consolidation of Railways,” Lewis, p. 102.
[121]. “National Consolidation of Railways,” Lewis, p. 83.
[122]. Martin v. Southern Pacific, Central Pacific, and Union Pacific Railroads. 1 I. C. C. Decis. 1.
[123]. 8 I. C. C. Decis. 481. The Commission made an order that the Kearney rate should not exceed the Omaha rate by more than 15 cents, but the Southern Pacific refused to obey, and the Circuit Court declined to enforce the order on the ground that the Commission had not found the rate to Kearney unreasonable in itself, but only in comparison, citing 190 U. S. 273.