Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-11-13


where there is a channel which makes
Il possible for them to be operated
While Senator Burton calls atten-
ton TO the small quantity of The traf-
flc hauled on certain streams, which
streams he mentions in his minority
report, he has not presented tho
whole truth. Two important things
must be ascertained before we can
reach u just conclusion; first, we must
know how much lower railway rates
are to points situated upon these
streams than TO points In the same
general region which are not 80 sit
uated; and. second. we must know
TO what point the railways cut theii
rates In order to destroy active water
competition
As concrete instance: Some
years ago there was a line of boats
running on the Trinity River, in Tex
as. carrying cotton from Dallas to
Galveston for the average price OF
81 per bale. The railways cut the
rate far enough below this point and
continued TO cut rate long enough to
drive The boat line off the river, since
which time the rate has been S3 per
bale. Lake Providence La, on the
Mississippi River is almost identically
the same distance from New Orleans
~ Dallas is from Galveston. There
are very few boats on the Mississippi
River today as compared with for
mer days and probably very little
cctton' is carried from Lake Provl-
dence to New Orleans. but the rate
il 30 cents per bale.
The Bureau of Corporations. In a
recent report prepared for the Inland
Waterway Commission points out
that the railways make a rate of only
45 cents or so cents a bale on cot.
ton from Nicksbnrg, Miss. TO New
Orleans. while from Rolling Fork,
Miss. 40 miles nearer to New Or
leans. hut 10 TO II miles from the
river, the rate has ranged from 81 to
~ per bale There Is a crying need
for state and national legislation
which win prevent sucn enormous
discrimination between the cri2ens
of different communities
You state that the best way to han
die railway rates is by legislation.
May II be asked If you have failed
10 take note of the fact that in some
states, notably in Pennsylvania, the
Supreme Court has declared bill
fixing ma Ximum rates to be uncon-
stitutional, and that the roads are
therefore largely free to charge such
rates as they please?
The waterways OF the United States
should be improved. There should be
laws TO prevent crk- throat competi-
ton on the part of the railways, to
provide that railway rates for an
equal distance shall be the same,
whether that distance lie alongside
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