New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-08

SIC This act shall take effect on the let day OF Apr 1880
or part thereof are to that extent hereby repealed
This bin was accompanied by voluminous report,
which received the sanction Of five OF the seven
members composing the Committee, in favor OF
granting the prayer of the petitioners. The re-
port opens by stating that the question ID one OF rst
importance and recitinR the action OF the Legislature
of last Winter on the subject especially the report OF
the Select Committee of the Assembly, which, says
Mr. FIaoler Established by its startling array OF
facts The existence and magnitude Of the discrimna-
" tons against citizens in the Railroad manage
ment of the State and the urgent necessary OF re-
" strant and correction" The Committee ADOPT, AS
conclusive, the statements ana arguments on .nal re-
port in regard to the propositions therein discussed
The Committee have spent much time IN the inyestiga'
ton of the subject and in listening to the pleas OF the
agents and attorneys of the Railroad Companies, IN
denial or exenuation of the practices charged by the
memoralists against fhe Railroad management OF the
State and lay down the following propositions, which
they regard established beyond all cayl or contra
dictionI -
The property Of the citizens Of other States Is allowed
transportation on tho Railroads of this State for much less
portion.by than the products of own citizens.
Citizens Of given localities In this State compelled to
IA unequal rates VI transportation compared with the other
3 Citizens of our State time. ensy dbsIrsd from
force Of for long periods moving the pre-
ferred property Of citizens Of other States
only made but large profits In the aggregate are secsd By
eItIsvsssnt rates charged our citizens -.
The sport then esspecimen5 OF freight
tariffs 10 sustain the above positions. For instance:
In March last previous opening Of the cn the Now
Csc per Dbl Tariff price, Buffalo to New-YOrf. 7oc.
April NewYcrk Central carried pork from Chicago to New
Flour Chicago New-YOk, Soc per Dbl Tariff price from
Spr Ee Road Flour Chicago to Nsw.YOrs &c. per Dbl
TART price PsTtagev Rc to New S. York ssS m b
TsItf price Owego to NewYork, soc.
April New.Yo Central: Furniture in boxes NewYork to
Cleveland per 100 lbs Tariff price, Troy to Buffalo Oc
Mox Nork Cent Toledo
per Dbl Tariff price from Buffalo Lockpor bloonheid &C.
aCc orb iS Buaa9 e Ss s S.se
NAV Erie Road Hides Chicago to NewYOrk 2ac per 100
lbs srG Buffalo TO New ork 35c merchandise, New York
70 Milwaukee rt second third and fourth classes at 2c
leo bs NewYork Bnshsmton, first class sec second 4ec
en.: Sc .ecoad &c third ssc fourth &c 100 lbs.
owegO to DonIk fret class oSc second fci 'no' ''c
After quoting much more of the same Sort the Com
mittee express the opinion that no EXTENDED remarks
the palpable injustice of the RailroadfreghtiDg sys-
tenn of this State. -.
In justification of the charge that the people Of this
State are at times entirely debarred from the use OF
the railroads for freighg purposes the report states
that in the movement of the crop OF 1897 there was
great pressure on the roads for forwarding through
freiRhts from the West, and that from October ~ TO
November 90 the Ne " York Central utterly refused
TO take any way-freeht at all devOtDg its entire force
to Transporting the property Of strangers TO the ex-
clusion of the products OF our own citizens. ,
The Committee notice the fact that while the rail.
roads hold impraccabe to apply the prlrcipe OF
pro rata in fixing of freight IN this State, yet the
railroad officials aeknow ledge that different roads pro
rate with each other, and numerous instances were
brought to the notice of the Committee showing the
practice TO be very extensive. For instance, on the
33d of November the New-YOrk Central took beef
from Chicago to Boston at Al cents per lOO POUNDS,
which was pro rated between the several lines over
which il passed, az fOl0ws
Chicago to Detroit Michigan Central, 2S5 "a,
Lake Erie Detroit 10 Buffalo, $50 miles 100 ~
New oTk Central to Albany, 298 miles st...l3c 100 ~
Albany to Boston, Western Railroad l6 miles, stlOc loo 10
Total. ....44c p 100 b
In tances of prorating gwen when the n. Y.
Central and Hudson River roads have received only ID
cents per bb for transporting hour from Buffalo TO
New-York.
The Committee believe the obsetion raised against
the proposed bill that it will haySa tendency 70 divert
trade TO other routes north and south OF the state 10
be entirely fsllacous. They assume that IN the long
run trade like water, must flow in natural channels.
While, cay the Committee, diversions Tor a time may
be produced by artificial means, the effort contains
within sef The element of its own destruction, and
the movement of property between the ssabosrd and
the Westt III States must in the end fall into the cheap
est route.
"If New-York does not possess that roue, it is in
vain to protract the struggle to retain it IT, on tn
other hand, New York does possess plateau o
ground extending from tide water to the great inland
seas which property may be transported at less
cost to the carrier than any other all other routes
become pTOpOItlOnaDly anu however,
may protract the warfare, the result in favor OK
New-York is inevitable.
Ii NAV not he improper to aliude to come OF our
advantages. The Western States drained upon the
north by the great inland seas to come part OF which
tends every canal and railroad penetrating these
States.
These seas form the outlet to 3 800 miles of imme
date coast and bounded by the riches. producing land
upon the continent
1.-THE cost of transportation upon these seas for
eight and frequently nine months of the year second
ONLY TO ocean cheapness. The State Of New-Y0rk is
the isthnus between these seas aud tidewater. She
possesses also the metropolis OF the natlon 10 which
the surplus products OF the whole country Will inaly
concentrate whether transported over natural or un-
natural routes whether lifted the peaks OF the
Alegany ard Cumberland Mountains on the south, or
along the borders of perpetual rosts upon the north,
or fioated down the Mississippi and along the ocean
coast Across this sthmus connecting the inland seas
with tdewater, we have canal unparalleled on the
face Of the earth for direct lines and freedom from
lcckages with for supply OF water for any
emergency. Upon this canal ransporton ia third only
TO the ocean in cheapness, and upon the of still
greater development III that direction, without eS-
haustiDg resources, in the way OF improving and
cheapenDg.
The inland seas and Underwater are also connected by
a railroad 29S miles in length, of nearly airline and
water level Upon the south, 300 feet Of higher
grades must be overcome, together wlthsharp curves
uponl the north, circutous eleven hundred miles OF
railroad located through latitude OF intensity OF frost
and SHOWS unknown TO our favored sthmus This al
fusion to the general merits of the routes between the
Western States and the seaboard is deemed by your
Committee sufficient and beg to refer to Document No
7s of the Legislature of 1859 for the full and statistical
proofs of the position assumed by your Committee in
the above general terms with the ausion only to the
testimony of those several railroad companies given
in their annual reports TO the percentages of cost to
Themselves respectively in performing the traffic VIZ.
Newly oTk Central 80 per cent Of freight earnings
Newly and Erie So per cent gross freight earnings.
Pennsylvania Central Railroad 80 per cent Of freight
= BstimOre and Ohio Rsrod per cent of gross
ings.