The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-17

ports as we'll as at Galveston last season.
Galveston will have storage capacity Tor
. 100000 bushels OF grain this fall, with
transfer facilities for about 200 cars, or
more than double that of last year.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
AT the afternoon session Governor Leeiy
of Kansas was called to the stand by com
plainants He stated he was farmer ana
that the average cost of producing corn per
bushel was &c cents and of wheat So cents
In Eastern Kansas The price of corn had
varied from IL to 16 cents of late years
Kansas grain raisers have been losing
money for the last five years and are not
now in a flourishing condition. He was
here in company with the Kansas leGisla-
tive committee appointed to meet with
legislative committees of Texas and other
States for the purpose Of. If possible. OBJ
tanning better freight rates to gulf ports.
Senator King OF Kansas was called to the
stand. Is farmer. Cost of producing
corn from l6 to "A cents per bushel: of
wheat from 40 to 60 cents a bushel. Average
price of wheat in the last two or three
years 40 cents per bushel; of yellow corn.
16 cents; white corn. II cents. Kansas
grain farmers are not prosperous US u rule.
Didn't know whether any OF the Kansas
railroads were being managed as economl-
cally as possible or whether they are pay
| ing DIVIDENDS on their stock OF interest ON
their bonds. Had investigated the question
OF salaries paid by Kansas railroads 10
their employees and came to the conclusion
| that attorneys and officials thereof were
drawing rather large sums OF money Tor
their services Many Kansas farmers nave
sold their farms at sacrifice to aNold
being foreClosed
Representative Brown OF Kansas tosd-
fled that the cost OF raising corn in Kansas
is from IL to rs cents. selling price from
10 to 10 cents per iSishel. Wheat raisers
| in his county had all failed. Kansas grain
raisers had a little to eat and little 10
wear and that was about all. No fore
closures in his county during the past
year as nearly everybody had been pre-
| ylously sold out. No statistics IN existence
that he knew of by which the earning ca
pacity of a Kansas railroad can be gaugcd.
About onethird of the mileage of Kansas
that of the Missouri Pacific.
| William Garrison resident Of the Chero-
kee strip testified that farmers IN MS
| section are in poor circumstances nNiHN
| in sod houses and have made no iihproN.
| meuts for six years. Corn seillhs AT 10
| cents. sold for 1G cents during the preVa-
4
| fan Cost of Texas lumber in the strin
from SIS to 500 per 1000; had seen the Same
| lumber offered at IS per 1Ooo at beauiiio,,
few DAYS ago. People in the strip wouiu
think prosperity had struck them II 'hey
could trade a car of their corn Tor a car
Of Texas lumber.
warwick Saunders of Nebraska here at
tonding the meeting of the deep water com
mittees. testified that grain raisers III ms
State are getting poorer wear by year.
general air of hard times per'aaes 'iieil
premises. No general market price ior
gone Mt forced sale. People very indus
trious Everybody. from grandmother
down 10 little children. works in the fields
Did not think the people OF Neprhaha
should be denied the ADVANTAGES OF chear
rates TO which they are entitled by virtue
OF their proximity to the Cur oil MeAleo'
Corn in his neighborhood was worth from
- ia is cents when low rates to Galveston
preyailed last fall. Since then it has fallen
to and 10 cents.
]. Reymershoffer president of the Star
Flour and Rice wills of Galveston. testified
as TO the capacity Of the port OF Galveston
to handle export grain business. and said
that low and stable rates were all that
was necessary to stimulate large import
trade. Facilities for handling grain would
be more than doubled this fall. Cement
sugar. coffee. tin plate and sisal was beinl
imported through Galveston. He exported
flour 10 the West Indies. Central America
and Europe. Binding twino was manuiac-
tured in Galveston and sent principally te
, Kansas.
After having been examined by com
plainants. Mr. Reynershofer was put OF
, the stand by Attorney General Crane an'
examined In the matter of the application
of the intervening Kansas millers that tn
rate on flour and wheat be made the SAM
, from Kansas to Texas common points
named points. at which flour mills ar
operated in Texas and submitted state
ment showing that the Kansas miller is q
> no disadvantage compared with the Gal
weston miller even in the selling OF nj
/, product right at the door OF Galveston
Kansas miller grinding on the milling Il
transit rate can. he demonstrated success
Q fully compete with the Galveston MIL In IN
u Galveston market The removal OF the Or
g feren,ial on flour above the wheat rat
A would destroy the Texas flour milling In
C dustry without cheapening the price
: flour to the consumer. The issue was real
q Nv whether the Texas mills should be per
n mitted to live or whether one OF the srca'
e est monopolies In this country snail pns
e them into the gulf Much Kansas flour
: so,d In Galveston A difterential exist
eyerywhcre except cast from Kansas. TheI
a was differential in existence between cor
: and meal. lots OF Kansas meal soiu
). Texas, Submitted :. tariff sheet. shown
IS the existence OF diforentlai on iiour w
If East st. Louis to Southeastern points ny
1t no objection to reduction IN the graz
5. and flour rate. providing .d dffsre shu,.
d maintained. Out OF 100000 busheis
70 wheat ground by the Star mills, Ioo'n
: comes from out OF the state. Minneapol
le mills compete with Texas mills also Eas
Le ern mills located at Buffalo. for instane
oniov what amounts to a differeDtial b.
cause their wheat comes to them by waite
ID Called by complainants, G, .. lmboa'
stated that the prices OF grain had tonch'
l. bottom In the last three or four years on
ing to the DEVELOPMENT of South America
" and Australian fields. He explained u
re difference In conditions at Galveston al
A. on the Atlantic seahoard. Read a pap
" giving rates from Chicago to the Fast al
ID showing that although the Galveston ra
" is s cents higher than the Chicago ra'
II. much less is charged for the same ma
SIS east from Chicago than is charged IN I
direction Of Galveston from points Yves.
s. the Missouri river. the question OF distan