Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-22

Rarlly correct also as TO sherman,
Paris. BOnham. Waco. Corslcana and
every other city In the state What
ntupldlty would there he In attempting
to build up Houston, the only alleged
beneficiary OF the commissions action,
for the sake OF her political influence
at the expense of losing the support
Of every other city In the state.
II there Is any railroad IN Texas lib
beral with campaign funds, the COM
mission Is ignorant of the fact and Il
calls upon Mr.. Rogers to a1duce his
proof, II certainly is grave Charge
he makes, and he viii he recreant To
duty u he does not make complete
exposure. lie IL earnestly invited to
turn on the light, lie cannot fail To do
so II he IL patriot. One OF the news
papers IL 80 uncharltahlc. being mlsled
by the Rogers article, as TO suggest
that POSSIBILITY the railroads FIN the
late appointments lave secured strong
friends ut court" While all OF the
members OF the commission as now
constituted unhesitatingly favor the
dlnercntlal and are determined to nd
here to II, as long az cuisines conditions
require its retention atlll the injustice
OF the lnslnuation Is manifest when the
fact II stated that 1.-THE late appolnt-
mentA' were not made until three years
after the commission. recognizing tho
business OF the diffcrcn,ial continued II
In force with a reduction from \ 10
cents and not until after the cotton
tarim Of 1924, fixing n dlGterential at
cents was adopted. The action taken
since the late appointments were made
simply continues In eject the q cents
dinerentlal previously adopted
Reading the NTH resolution In the
Hight OF Its preamble and Of Mir, Ro-
gers article, 1t implies n charge not
expressed namely, that the course
pursued by the commission IN Intended
to and does build MP outside cotton
markets 10 the detrimcnt OF home
markets. md especially Texas ports.
meaning Galveston No one can doubt
upon an attentive perusal OF the Ro-
! gers article and resolutions that the
Impression IA designed TO be produced
that the policy OF the commission II to
/ foster the interest OF New orleans at
| the expense OF Texas markets The
charge IL directly made Of favarltiam
| 10 the Southern Pacific company, The
| two matters can be most probably
considered together In the light OF the
| following statistics:
iS9O-i--Crop In bales, 5000 600; ship.
| ped from Houston to New orleans,
| 2li,6i2; per cent OF crop shipments from
| Houston to New Orleans, II.
iS9i-2-Cron In bales. 100000: ship.
! ped from Houston TO New orleans. MS.-
| biG per cent of crop shipped from llous-
! ton to New Orleans 10.
| 1Sq2-3-Crop In bales .. 236, 0OO shipped
| from Houston to New Orleans. SiS sos.
per cent Of crop shipped from Hous-
| ton to New orleans. 10,
| lS93-l-Crop In bales, 9, 200, 900. shipped
| from Houston TO New Orleans, 3S1,st7;
| per cent Of crop shipped from Houston
| TO New Orleans. II.
| 1sgi-5-Crop In bales 1900. 900; shipped
| from Houston to New orleans. GOO 600:
per cent OF crop shipped from Houston
| to New orleans, IS.
| These figures are remarkable In that
ms ct the cotton going to New orleans
| from Houston they disclose that from
| and including the year 1901 the por-
| centage OF the Texas crop shipped from
| Houston TO New orleans has Increased
each year, the largest increase being
for 1929 Of 3 per cent over the per-
centaPe for 9l-2, the latter being
| commission differontial year. the former
not. These figures show the groundless-
ness OF the charge as II relates TO New
| orleans; and they equally establish the
groundlessncss OF the charge as to the
Southern Pacific company. whose prin-
cipnl source of supply OF cotton for
transportation over its lines 20 New
orleans Is Houston. Their probative
force In. refullng both charges II aug
mented by the fact that for the year
1928, Now Orleans received from all
sources OF the Texas crop 647,Sl5 bales
or q per cent; for 1885, G39 Gss bales
or 20 per cent; for lssi-b i.0li,lil bales
or 80 per cent. Her Increase FOR p3-A
over 02-3 was 4 per cent; her Increase
for 1Sqi-5 over o3-i was per cent
Calveston'H Increase for lS9t-b was 4
per cent against Now Orleans ! per
cent Increase over 1874, though there
was commission differentlal IN
force In oi-5 and not IN sS-4. We have
not been able to obtain statistics show
l,.f nrlauna nYinr
1929,
That the commission has shown nny
par.iality TO tho Southern Pacific CONF
pany In a malicious chlumny invented
to innsme prejudice ngainst tho COM
mission, because OF the diafnvor with
which that company Is regarded by
many people has been abundantly es.
tnbllshed. II amy further exposure OF
that invention were necessary, we need
only to refer to the fact that the
commission has reduced the dlfferentlal
4 cents below what II was when that
company began TO operate IN Texas,
The figures we have used have been
obtained from the Galveston, Houston
and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges,
Where there have been discrepancies
we have adopted the largest figures
assuming that the compiler OF them
was more careful or had at his com
mand more complete data than were
flnllpA'u Wy AnNAu nhV tNN' oh"hN'
figures.
Furthermore. that confusion may not
arise. It should be stated that by far
the greater part OF the cotton received
at Houston goes 10 Galveston, and such
cotton In doubtless to large extent
estimated In the receipts Of each city
Returning 20 the fourth resolution,
which Is as follows, we desire to make
n few remarks:
a. That we demand OF our commits
sion 10 abolish tho rule as TO compress
sling cotton. leaving the shipper his
own option In the premises"
This resolution is the key 10 Mr..
Rogers complaint. Interested. an we
are Informed IN n Galveston cotton
compress. his desire Is that the COM
mission shall have no compress regula-
tons More than once has he endeav-
ored 10 induce the commission not to
mako any such regulations. what In
his motive7 Obviously to have cotton
TO go through to Galveston uncom-
pressed that he may further be enrich
ed by the gains TO his compress. AM
other monopollsiic scheme OF his. As
he would destroy the value OF invest
ments In Houston's facilities for hand
ling cotton 30 here he would have the
commission at one fell stroke TO strike
Continued on Fourth PaEc.D
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