[426] U. S. Industrial Commission, vol. IV, p. 562.

[427] Cf. 8 Int. Com. Rep., 169, on grain rates from Minnesota and trans-Missouri points; as also 23 I.C.C. Rep., 195.

[428] Cf. Joint Committee Information No. 298 of January 13, 1900, giving all these rules in detail.

[429] Cf. Windom Committee, vol. II, pp. 42 and 134.

[430] Known as the C. F. A. scale. Full text is printed in Illinois Railroad Commission Proceedings in Maximum Freight Rate case, Record, etc., 1905, p. 43. See also p. 97.

[431] Detailed comparison is made in ibid., p. 45. See also p. 17.

[432] Illinois Railroad Commission Proceedings in Maximum Freight Rate case, Record, etc., 1905, p. 152.

[433] Exhibit A 15, ibid., shows this by means of a map. See also Senate (Elkins) Committee, 1905, vol. III, p. 2271.

[434] The double disability of these smaller places is stated in ibid., p. 7.

[435] Chapter XVIII, infra.