[391] Fink, Adjustment of Railroad Transportation Rates, etc., p. 16.
[392] Ibid., pp. 19 and 52.
[393] Windom Committee Report, II, p. 7.
[394] Waste of transportation as an economic problem has already been discussed in chap. IX, supra.
[395] This persisted even in 1890. Consult 51st Cong., 1st sess., Sen. Rep., No. 847, p. 616.
[396] Hepburn Committee, pp. 3006-3010.
[397] Hepburn Committee Report, p. 318.
[398] Windom Committee Report, II, p. 287.
[399] This was adopted officially by the trunk lines April 13, 1876.
[400] Hepburn Committee Report, p. 3112.