The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-14


act. With the enforcement Of which the
commission 10 charged;"
AASn2d! again, On page ~: ,-..,
mission, restraint. q Competition and
end sSe ports %he Set 70 eo
shsis own would Ss aniawfql SSps sSin *
, In this last quotation he clinches the
s sse * the de-
are seeking 70 maiStafs. mat we
Mr.; President, believe it is to the
sect eosns that or
should hhve' the right TO discriminate
n IN their na. II favor, not that they may raise
they may place the rates unreaspnably
low Will give case Of this kind.
serves them and say. : we have the
timber here: we should like to build up
try; but Grand Rapids, in Michigan, has
M the they
W could 70. senp sa Wiz E shsm N .s aaa
10 the Chicago market" 1 The railway way
says. I'VE will haul your products for
will cost, and after that we will raise
the rate to such an extent as we can
b saIG to y curry nd 5nsm This will then
Now. the Commission appears and
says, under the law which you would
that particular city i unless a"s YOU aa'e give s
It to every other city on the line, and to
every so ry,,, other person VINO Is attempting
along ANY particular line" Thus yo,
are deprived of building up a business
and would benefit also the cOnntrv
You deprive them OF competition. 1
recall this character of q condition:
raise nothing but potatoes, or another
section where they raise nothing but
of be erased an
oyer oyer tn the country, and they find, when
market, the freight rates viii e equal
what THAT. they can get for them in, the
says viii carP1 these h Goods aasiW shis
year at even less than cost. We Will
carry them for the express purpose Of
that we will have to lower our rates
here, and we will have to raise them, it
may may be, In the wheat-raising section.
the general result Of our income to
| meet running. expenses"
1 -, Under this law they could not do it.
They could not change the rate except
days the potatoes would be rotten.
|
q railway may discriminate in favor,
es to some p by tEag tSs
while they shall be always prohibited
| from making any rate unreasonably
making one professionally low for a
Legitimate purpose.
railway management simply supplies
the demand for carriage. They do not
ATTEMPT att to make markets. They supply
reverse is the rule in this country. Our
I railways. especially in a new country,
must Ins t,a give ~ SPECIAL attention to Great
compare the field Of production with
this n cent OF c56ntspim n not only in
trade: n this country they make the
il9ng as they do this, then 1 say that
s sa1u spe aass s the Of
certain conditions to certain places in
the country as would be beneficial to
the part of the country that is given
hose particular low rates.
Now, Mr.. President, answering the
Senator from South Carolina about the
Complaints In the southwestern part Of
raisers complain somewhat, not that
their rates are too high-they are not
ed with the rates North Dakota and
Rates s1s mot t neseT
men from the south say that the rates
| from the southern lumber districts as
the rates the Pa
That is true for three reasons. First.
FOR the very purpose Of d eSelepings that inM
railroad companies could af HfGd'i to ' DC
| a r1r,ct to-,
| portance that they can haul loaded
trains DO both ways Again. they do It be-
| along. the, southwestern roads, and
therefore they can carry cheaper. Now.
we are entitled to It.
Mr.. Tillman. Mr.. PRECEDENT
tor From wice Sdrfs Does the sena
NJ NJ M Mi,5s,ah With pleasure,
along the road from Dakota to the Pa pa
cifc coast. where these lumber districts
are is more dense than It is from any
Mr. MGCumber I said the Southwest.
fan me- as Ti nr GonE eyer to Texas as
that run to Denver and to the coast.
is unsettled a certain portion Of the dis
+ lance than the roads running through
the northern section. Minnesota and
There are great settlements in WASH WASH.
ington and along, the Northern Pacific.
Along onagsi the &C Great Northern road we have
tSsss, I, Arizona. and the other sections
mere e, is very ,ery much less population, and
M. Tiilman: ! think tho Senator.
fsom on the fnats that he s
between the Pacific and the The pasotas
is Il the sags Of the the arid belt
ninth and the hundredth parallel; but
there is no part of the Southwest in
out in the Rio Gsas nd no eoamtps: dwa dS
not think there is; It is too dry; but
or nsrs there
the Indian Territory and Oklahoma the
country is four times-ren tImes-as
as any e. a IF y tds
- NJ T., MGca@ssr Tsst may be true as
me take up this same matter Of the dis is.
elimination in favor Of localities: ~
tfs kssssry II u So oan
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Michl-
Bas away to ysfy M sse Of sfom ns ay
the the immense ny a prfmeyal forests Of fir and
pine OF oregon and Washington. We
needed their lNmber and they needed
our market. They were too remote
pete with the lumbermen Of Minnesota
and Wisconsin on anything. like equal
carrying charges. The only way to
ton, and by a-great discrimination in
favor Of the western product and even
So the managers of our northern rail-
ways said to the. -lumbermen OF the
west coast. For what carrying charges
can you compete on the plains of Da--