Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-25

| In the East over the cut rates, eAtofIioIis dHu
| DETERMINATIONS of the Central Pacific Rail
road:
NEW YORK MERCHANT TALKS.
| NJ. S. Woods said he appeared here to
York who are interested in transportation
As he understood the bill, it did not under
take to regulate charges-excert IN SO far
that they must be uniform. He read a me
mortal, numerously signed by merchants,
shippers and ship-owners, saying that the
passage of the bill would destroy the arbi-
trary rates of transportation now exacted and
confer great benefits upon the country.
ANOTHER DELEG ALTON OF BUSINESS MEN.
New York, Jan. 24-Another delegation
ested in the California trade, have gone to
Washington to appear before the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce to urge the passage of
the Reagan bill. These gentlemen are near
ly all sufferers by the contracts which ship
pers have been coerced into recently by the
Union Pacific Railroad, and which have taken
away from the clipper lines large amount of
their business.
LETTERS FROM CALIFORNIA MERCHANTS.
He read letters from California and New
York merchants, showing that they had been
overcharged by the Pacific and other railroad
lines, while others, competing with them,
had been favored by rebate and drawback
He also read letter from Chapman & Flint,
s NJ loi, # tba ar
ordinations of the Pacific railroads, which
are striving to drive merchants from the clip
per ships to the exclusive use of the overland
railroad, and saying that about four hundred
merchants have been forced to bow to these
companies The writers of the letter add
that they ask for no protection further than
that the railroads shall not unjusty discrim-
mate against commerce and compel it to use
only one channel of transportation namely,
railroads.
sHIP-owNERs VIEWS.
Ambrose Snow said he appeared in his
private capacity as a ship-owner, and also
as a delegate of the New York Board of
Trade and transportation, to show what
the effect of the present railroading sys-
tenn has been on business. Ship-ovners had
heretofore felt bat little interest in railroad
ing, but now they found one of the most i'm
pOrtant Breaches of commerce threatened with
extinction by the Union Pacific Railroad, which
discriminatess against merchants who carry
their goods by way of Cape Horn, and has
established most arbitrary rules to govern
them. Thus the merchants were brought
face to face, for the carrying trade, with a
road largely under the control of those who
should be subject to the Government which
granted its franchise.
THE SYSTEM OF REBATES AND DRAWBACKS.
To show how the system of rebates and
drawbacks operates, Snow said man might
engage five millions of bushels of wheat in
Chicago and Oh this receive rebate o. three
cents bushel in transportation. This vas
S150,O0O. Rebate enabled the purchase to
pay one cent more per bushel than any 0Idl-
nary purchaser, and, taking the wheat to an
other market, sell it at one cent less per
bushel than anybody else. Having one cent
remaining on each bushel, he would realize
CCo,oop hIIipuI perhaps spSilG d ucl-
lar. Such things might go on for few years,
when all other great staples of the country
might be controlled III transportation
THE PEOPLE BLEp BY STOCK JoBBERs.
The railroads are nearly all heavily mort |
gagged, and combinations are formed from |
time to time to obtain control of them This |!
was no unimportant matter. Once Jay Gould |
had gained control of the Union Pacific stock |
at sixteen cents on the dollar One needs |
but little foresight to see that he would soon
put up the stock to par, and the way he would |
do this would be to make the users of the |
road submit to extorton. Men make for |
tunes by bearing and buling, more than by |
owning stock. Our flag has almost disappear
ed from the ocean, and shippers come here to |
ask that this inter State commerce bill shall |
become law, in the interest of the ships |
that navigate by way of Cape Horn If the
Union Pacific could depress or destroy the
shipping interest of the country, why might !
not the New York Central Railroad Company
say to the Erie Canal shippers: If you do
not altogether send your freight by our road
We will charge you double rates Of transpor-
tation when the canal is frozen up And so
1t might be with regard to all other railroads
in discriminating against the Mississippi river