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

[298]. See The Outlook, July 1, 1905, p. 578.

[299]. See Miss Tarbell’s vigorous description of what the Standard did to Kansas in McClure’s for September, 1905.

[300]. Ind. Com. vi, pp. 663–665. The seaboard pipe line was completed in 1884.

[301]. Sen. Com. 1905, p. 2322, Professor Ripley.

[302]. Ibid., p. 48. A member of the Florida State Commission says the roads also show favoritism in the supply of cars and by giving rebates to large shippers. (Ibid., p. 47, R. H. Burr.)

[303]. Sen. Com. 1905, pp. 3339, 3340, Commissioner Fifer.

[304]. Ibid., pp. 1816–1820, 3439, 3440.

[305]. 10 I. C. C. Decis. 342, June 25, 1904.

[306]. Sen. Com. 1905, p. 3441. Other witnesses agreed as to the oppressive freight rates, and said the town had subsidized two roads, both of which are now controlled by the Southern Railway, but they did not think town values had decreased or that population had diminished (pp. 2006, 2018).

[307]. Ibid., pp. 1761, 1762.