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blessings and advantages incident to waterway trans- 

 portation should be forever secure in and for the whole 

 people, regardless of how the development of these 

 waterways may affect the railway or other special in- 

 terests. With this assurance and small aid in present 

 emergency, internal waterway systems would soon be 

 established and developed, resulting in vast profits to 

 the nation. 



To illustrate the discriminating rates in favor of 

 lines paralleling waterways, I would say just prior 

 to the taking over of the railways by the Federal Gov- 

 ernment, it cost 11.9 cents per hundred to bring a car- 

 load of corn from Grand Island to Omaha 153 

 miles. If that carload of corn was reshipped to Kan- 

 sas City, 192 miles, the rate would be only 5.5 cents 

 per hundred (less than one-half for the longer than 

 for the shorter distance). On wheat from Grand 

 Island to Omaha, 13.6 cents per hundred. The rate 

 on this same wheat reshipped to Kansas City, 5.5 cents 

 per hundred. The rate on wheat from Grand Island 

 to Omaha was 13.6 cents per hundred. The rate on 

 wheat originating beyond Kansas City and rebilled 

 from Kansas City to Minneapolis, 558 miles, is 12 

 cents a hundred, or 1.6 of a cent less per hundred to 

 ship it 558 miles parallel with the Missouri River, 

 than to ship it 153 miles from a station in the midst 

 of the grain fields to Omaha. The rate of corn from 

 Grand Island to Omaha is 1 1.9 cents per hundred. The 

 rate of com originating in the grain fields of Kansas, 

 and reshipped from Kansas City to Minneapolis, 558 

 miles, is 1 1 cents a hundred, or .9 of a cent less per 

 hundred for carrying it 558 miles paralleling the Mis- 



