[XIV]
COST OF RAILWAY REGULATION
Nothing in the record of railway development in the United States has increased with the rapidity of the cost of their regulation under the act creating the Interstate Commerce Commission. Since the first Commission, composed of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, chairman, William R. Morrison, of Illinois, Augustus Schoonmaker, of New York, Aldace F. Walker of Vermont, and Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama, Commissioners, and Edward E. Moseley, Secretary, and Prof. Henry C. Adams, Statistician, to date the yearly expenditures on its account have been as follows:
| 1888 | Five | Commissioners | $97,867 |
| 1889 | " | " | 149,453 |
| 1890 | " | " | 180,440 |
| 1891 | " | " | 214,844 |
| 1892 | " | " | 221,745 |
| 1893 | " | " | 217,792 |
| 1894 | " | " | 209,250 |
| 1895 | " | " | 216,206 |
| 1896 | " | " | 234,941 |
| 1897 | " | " | 234,909 |
| 1898 | " | " | 237,358 |
| 1899 | " | " | 238,125 |
| 1900 | " | " | 243,624 |
| 1901 | " | " | 255,979 |
| 1902 | " | " | 271,728 |
| 1903 | " | " | 298,842 |
| 1904 | " | " | 321,533 |
| 1905 | " | " | 330,739 |
| 1906 | " | " | 382,141 |
| 1907 | Seven | Commissioners | 538,827 |
| 1908 | " | " | 736,530 |
| 1909 | " | " | 988,936 |
From this it appears that the cost of regulating American railways has increased tenfold in twenty years. Of this only $34,000 is chargeable to the increase in number and compensation for the Commission under the Hepburn Act. Of the balance it was charged by Representative Adair of Indiana in a speech in Congress last January that $450,000 annually was for "Interstate Commerce Detectives."
[XV]
STATISTICS OF FOREIGN RAILWAYS
In the following review of the mileage and traffic statistics of the principal divisions of Europe and other countries, the information has been derived from the latest official sources wherever available, and where estimates have been resorted to as noted they have been computed from ascertained facts.
| Country | Year | Miles Covered by Capitalization | Capitalization or Cost of Construction | Passenger Revenues | Freight Revenues | Other Revenues | Total Earnings |
| United Kingdom | 1908 | 23,205 | $6,382,296,742 | $207,539,004 | $286,786,249 | $89,560,115 | $583,885,371 |
| German Empire | 1908 | 35,558 | 3,903,848,400 | 178,100,400 | 412,635,760 | 56,715,200 | 647,451,360 |
| France | 1907 | 24,817 | 3,455,436,000 | 145,355,448 | 176,664,215 | 6,421,010 | 323,440,673 |
| Russia in Europe | 1905 | 31,545 | (b)3,170,876,360 | 58,813,500 | 221,967,500 | 39,678,500 | 320,459,500 |
| Austria | 1907 | 13,427 | 1,515,576,800 | 41,716,800 | 122,214,200 | 5,692,800 | 169,628,800 |
| Hungary | 1907 | 11,769 | 741,586,200 | 20,836,800 | 54,650,400 | 3,327,000 | 78,814,200 |
| Italy(a) | 1907-8 | 8,762 | (c)1,091,608,000 | 31,149,886 | 51,266,976 | 6,929,979 | 89,346,841 |
| Spain | 1905 | 8,432 | 649,919,610 | 16,215,866 | 34,694,555 | 6,190,271 | 57,100,692 |
| Portugal | 1905 | 1,425 | 162,385,280 | 4,014,196 | 5,322,875 | 423,936 | 9,761,000 |
| Sweden | 1906 | 7,938 | 267,408,450 | 10,665,270 | 21,051,360 | 815,670 | 32,572,300 |
| Norway | 1908 | 1,608 | 61,841,610 | 2,253,420 | 3,029,920 | 108,810 | 5,392,150 |
| Denmark(a) | 1907-8 | 1,191 | 59,806,620 | 5,111,910 | 5,266,350 | 680,400 | 11,058,660 |
| Belgium | 1907 | 2,871 | (d)451,592,980 | 18,340,790 | 38,532,450 | 858,271 | 89,731,511 |
| Holland | 1907 | 2,225 | 191,821,000 | 10,978,400 | 10,664,400 | 1,300,000 | 22,942,800 |
| Switzerland | 1907 | 2,740 | 303,426,747 | 16,222,422 | 21,204,331 | 1,677,556 | 39,114,310 |
| Roumania | 1907-8 | 1,979 | 183,492,074 | 5,089,191 | 10,269,530 | 629,373 | 15,988,094 |
| Canada | 1909 | 24,104 | 1,608,963,337 | 39,073,488 | 95,714,783 | 10,268,065 | 145,056,336 |
| Argentine | 1907 | 13,690 | 820,433,280 | 19,853,760 | 56,597,760 | 7,578,240 | 83,029,760 |
| Japan(a) | 1908 | 3,982 | 190,173,728 | 18,786,895 | 14,651,808 | 1,448,881 | 34,887,584 |
| British India | 1908 | 30,809 | 1,336,005,760 | 55,132,160 | 84,225,280 | 4,088,640 | 143,446,080 |
| New South Wales | 1909 | 3,623 | 231,870,440 | 8,380,744 | 14,437,981 | 1,669,826 | 24,488,551 |
| Total | 255,700 | $26,780,369,418 | $913,630,350 | $1,741,848,683 | $246,062,543 | $2,927,596,573 | |
| United States | 1908 | 230,494 | (e)12,840,091,462 | 566,832,746 | 1,665,419,108 | 171,554,135 | 2,393,805,989 |
| (a) State only. | |||||||
| (b) Including Siberian. | |||||||
| (c) 1906-7. | |||||||
| (d) State only. 2,543 miles. | |||||||
| (e) Exclusive of switching and terminal companies (1,626 miles). | |||||||