From Chicago, Ill. Το Knoxville, 1887 116 99 8265 55 45 32 38 34 29 47 53 58 64 42 8:::: :::: 35 31 33 29 48 62 58 1887 116 99 82 65 55 47 32 38 31 29 47 53 58 64 52 35 31 47 48 62 58 From Cincinnati, O., To Knoxville, Tenn. Dec. 1887 76 65 57 48 40 33 20 26 23 19 34 38 Rome, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. 2=0 20 ཚ Dec. 1987 76 65 57 48 ༤: 1888 189. 1890.. :: 1891 | | | | Dec. 1887 107 92 81 68 56 46 28 32 31 27 48 53 Per 1888 .. 1889. 1890. 1891 " ་ : 995 46 In a "Report on Changes in Railway Transportation Rates" to the Senate Committee on Finance prepared by the Auditor of this Commission from data furnished by the roads, are given the rates on classified traffic and important commodities from Chicago and Cincinnati to Atlanta and Chattanooga in 1879 (the year after the Convention of 1878) and in 1891. Those rates and the differences between them are shown in the following tables: 95 83 72 46 41 39 37 42 41 38 42 46 76 115 1879. 1891. 76 65 57 47 40 30 20 26 23 19 34 33 38 *26 Differences. 19 18 15 +1| 1| 9 17 16 18 19 8 13 38 Cents per 100 pounds. + Excess of latter rate. 10. At the convention of the eastern and western lines in 1878, it was announced by Mr. Peck, General Manager of the Southern Railway & Steamship Association, that the western lines "concede that the transportation of manufactured articles into the territory embraced by the Association should be left to the eastern lines, and undertake by prohibitory rates to prevent such articles from eastern cities reaching Association points over their lines." Accordingly a basis of rates was then adopted, by which rates on the western lines for "articles peculiar to the east" were to be at least 10 cents higher than the rates on the eastern lines, and rates on eastern lines for "western products" were to be at least 10 cents higher than the rates on western lines. At the time of this adjustment it appears that the west (or Central territory) contributed "principally food products in the solid and liquid forms of corn, bacon, flour, whiskey, etc.," for Southern consumption, while "manufactured articles and notions" came for the most part from the Eastern Seaboard These conditions have, however, materially changed, "the centers of food production have moved Westward" and Central territory has engaged much more extensively in manufacturing enterprises. In the Annual Report made to the Southern Railway & Steamship Association by its Commissioner, July 6, 1889, he says: "Formerly, agricultural products constituted a large excess of the western business, but the proportion of miscellaneous commodities—traffic formerly from the east is steadily growing from the west. Especially is this true in all manufactured articles of wood, such as furniture, wagons, carriages of all kinds, etc., and manufactures from the cheap grades of iron from the south, such as stoves, agricultural implements, etc." Central territory has also entered upon the manufacture on a large scale and shipment south of boots, shoes, clothing, saddlery, harness, and other articles of general merchandise. It is estimated that the manufactures in Central territory have increased 100 per cent in twenty years. These manufactured articles are shipped south from Central territory under the rates applied to the numbered classes in the Southern Railway & Steamship Association Classification, and bagging, ties, grain (and its products, including liquors), and packing-house products are shipped under the rates applied to the lettered classes. The testimony is to the effect that articles falling within the lettered classes are of more |