The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-03-11

goods OF all kinds, car wheels, chem
icals, circus outfits, crossties, crude
gypsum, common window glass,
drain pipe and tiles, earthenware,
empty barrels, fresh meat, CRATE
bars, glass fruit jars, horse and
mule shoes, household goods, iron,
angle, band, bar, boiler, hoop plate,
rod and sheet, iron beams, columns
and girders, iron roofing, liquors in
wood, litho-carbon, lime, locomotive
and tender, logs, lumber, merchan-
disc from Dallas, Waco, Houston,
Galveston, Fort Worth, Corsicana,
Hlllsboro, Sherman and other cities
to numerous places; merchandise
between all stations on the Texas
Midland railroad; melons of all kinds,
molasses, nails, paints, petroleum,
rice, salt, sawdust, second hand
farm machinery, sash, doors and
blinds, sash weights, shavings, staye
bolts, second hand electric light and
ice plant, staples, straw, shot, soap,
tan bark, turpentine, vehicles,
vinegar, wire, iron and steel, wood
and wire fencing, whiting, white and
white and red lead, etc. On many
of these articles application is prac-
tically general.
There have been notifications,
which have the effect to change
rates, on the following among other
articles, viz, Crackers, empty beer
packages, ammonia drums, furni-
ture, seeds, Hungarian fax, hemp,
millet and sorghum, journal bear
ings and carbrasses, tile, encaustic
flooring and facing; vegetables, pick
les, canned goods, window glass,
plane looking glass, bottles and
glass fruit jars, wagons, rosin, ag-
ricultural implements, hand, mer-
chandise Of all classes between
points on the Fort Worth and Den
yer and Texas and Pacific railways,
etc.
2. Since the filing Of the man
date OF the supreme court the COM
mission has made full rates on COM
modities which amount to about 50!
per cent of the total tonnage trans
ported in the state by railroads, and
has also made partial rates on a
large part of the remaining tom
mage,
3, In nearly all cases the rates
made by the commission have been
reduced but in a few cases, between
points where the rates were alb
normally low, in the equalization of
rates there have been slight in
creases,
On cotton the reduction is 25
cents per bale and it can be safely
stated that the saving to the peo-
pie Of Texas under this reduction
will be not less than 1925, 900 on the
crop of l894'95, Owing to the great
dlssimilarity Of conditions and diff.
ferent bases of making rates 1t is
impossible to give an exact state
ment of the reductions in rates
made by the commission on other
articles,
The general policy of the COM
mission in the adjustment Of rates
has been to 50 fix tariffs in thes state
that the people of Texas would en-
Joy the advantage Of marketing
their products and manufactured
goods in the home markets as far as
possible, In pursuance of this pol
icy grain rates were made 80 as to
enable Texas-grown wheat to be
milled and marketed In Texas, and
owing to outside competition the
rates originally made have since
been further reduced to enable Tex
as millers to compete with Kansas
and Missouri mills in the Texas
market
One hundred and three rate sheets
more or less limited in their appllca-
tion, and FIVE general tariffs were
made by the commission between
June 20 and Dec, 10 last, and ap.
pear in print in our third annual re-
port, pages 20 to73, Since the lat
ter date thirty special and four
general tariffs have been made by
us. A classified table Of the ton.
mage transported by the railroads
OF the state during the last year for
which we have information will be
found attached to page 207 Of the
report mentioned,
IN order that your eScellency may
be more fully advised as to the
character and extent Of the labors
OF the commission, we make the
following statement The inlorma'
ton above presented gives no ade'
quate idea of the whole current du.
ties of the commission The yalua.
ton of the railroads Of the state un-