The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-26
DlFFERENTIAL CASE,
Galveston Admits That Buffalo
Bayou Is Good Thing,
But WANTS ALL OF THE BENEFIT.
Hutchinson Replied to the Argument
OF Balliuger.
JUDGE ReAGAN'S INfOR NATION
Snys Rebates md False milling WIN
He Taken Into Account in Set
Ting Cotton Rates.
JUDGE REAGAN'S INrOR MATIO,


sion and Commissioner Deniso, NJ tho
c.,.'
"a'Nes'Vh freight bureau having been
placed ON the stand said that the cents
per Toe pounds CHARGED by the Direct Nav
ivation ,o,unauy for hauling co,,,, fran,
.H"''0N N''"p""' wa n''"''"s WV" i''i'
iio"s''h 10 "aiNestoh inciudes vents palc
at Galveston for Wharfage. At the time the
! diflereptial rase was last adti,dicatsd ih,
49,, ~ ,ar,. ,,-t -, u,,a,
wv was .S'''A' 'Ne'"'''e VI "Ha'i"se'
| me net ioVal rate is now ia.hticu with
| the dlferantial. Kncs this from the hi
| root Navi,,tio, con,,a,v,s n,,hush,a
10
ta''"s anu rum eehe'ai '"io'ih"''V"'
| Asked by MI. Balltnger TO give reasons
| bs sed ON fac, why the differential should
So ,,it.h.a ur nnrl.or ,,,,1.,,nnt IN
| ~
| Teau from inherent tarhis ana from Wv
| Houston Cotton Exchange brief in the last
dtffer.ntiol controversy. hut WAS STONED
| ,.,. ,,,,., ~ ,,i,,,, s., n,.,
" N"p'"'' ''''N "''V
| relhuoductloh oil rccotus Which sPuhe tV'
themselves as well as 10 any OIL 'ne VIII
nesscs reasons. Inc obltVuon was sus-
tanned and Mr., Denison went on TO explain
what he called change OF conditions
which had taken place since loHi quoting
from the commissions wool tarin and com
pairing same win no cotton tatli' ne uh
dcrtook TO show that condition OF un-
fairness grew out oil the existence ot Tue
dincrcntial-
Captain Hutcheson objected mat the VIII
ress was making an argument instead Of
ewing testimony. but the objection was
hot sustained.
Mr. Denison next undertook to say some
thing about Georgia farms, WheteuIon
Captain Hutcheson vented 10 know What
| they had to do with the Houston -GaIveslOn
dilferential. He was perfectly Wiling mat
the witness should designate the sphere IN
which he proposed TO act. whether DIS an
expert eal assumed facts or as a repository
of all facts but he objected to MIS- intro
duclng an alleged Georgia tariff ana baSing
conclusions thereon without proving the
genuinentss of said tarin. The objection
was sustained and tho witness was turned
over to Captain Hutchsson. In answer to
whom he admitted that he knew OF the eN-
stence oil Buffalo bayou and tina, 10 his
knowledge there was no other place in
Texas where for fifty miles 50 900 600 worth
of agricultural product was transported to
market by water as between Houston and
Galveston. There was competition be
twaon the Galveston- Houston lines caused
by Buffalo bayou. Did not SEQ amy reason
why Buffalo bayou navigation should cease
If the dinerential was abolished. but al
mitted that II costs something 10 transport
cotton from Houston 10 Galveston by water
Admitted that the cost of moving cotton
from Hoxston to Galveston had been ma
r ,a IN FG she ny ratio q thSreof
w. u W Wv 'si,,,s ", coi,ns,or had IN.
o 0Sed II lg ner cent since 1888 ~
From his information would swear Thai
tho practical local rate on cotton from on
Houston 10 Galveston Is cents per lot
: pounds
WAS not WHINE 10 s"pap '" ,a,r ' in,%o.
Gna" ,iu Nv himself fs~i' was in effect today Tn.
dcrstood that Navigation company charged
cents but assumed the wharfage. TN
derslood 'hal many .mU"' iios,o on ,o Cal
, weston nj 6 cents but could not swear thai
single hole hau Ih"Nc' W., t 49,, ,ron
shin brokers s. hat cotton was being movel
+ at cents from Houston 10 Galveston
wheeupon Captain Hu'ehf s , pGlssSsa ,r an,
asked thai ms 'V,HJnct Nv rss ny"rrnIrt