Rates of an individual road cannot be compared with joint rates made by that road with others. Osborne Case, 52 Fed. Rep. 912; Tozer Case, 52 Fed. Rep. 917; Union Pacific Case, 117 U. S. 355.
[154]. Popular Science Monthly, Oct. 1897, p. 816.
[155]. M. E. Ingalls, before National Convention of Railway Commissioners, 1898, p. 14.
[156]. Rep. 1897, p. 6; and 1898, p. 15.
[157]. “The exaction of the published rate is the exception.... Men who in every other respect are reputable citizens are guilty of acts which, if the statute law of the land were enforced, would subject them to fine or imprisonment.” See Rep. 1898, pp. 5, 6, 18, 19; Rep. 1899, p. 8.
[158]. Report, vol. iv, 1900, p. 625.
[159]. Ind. Com. iv, pp. 6, 349, 359.
[160]. Testimony, p. 25.
[161]. Sen. Com. 1905, p. 2912.
[162]. Judge Clements of the Interstate Commission, Senate Committee, 1905, p. 3238. When the reader examines the facts that follow in this book he may wonder what the railroads will do when they are not under a good resolution, in view of the record they have made while under a good resolution.