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expediting of it they are not so particular. If we can schedule this train 

 and they will stand with us in the movement just as rigidly as they 

 do in the passenger movement, we can make these regular deliveries. I 

 think we can. We want to urge it on them. We will do our part 

 towards it. 



Mr. Madeley: As I understand it, for this expediting train service 

 you make an extra charge over non-expedited trains. Heretofore you 

 have not kept your promise, and you claim that there is no redress to 

 the shipper. Don't you think that there is a legal liability of the 

 company to the fruit carriers for your failure to keep your side of the 

 contract? 



Mr. Smurr: In the matter of expediting fruit trains, the company 

 makes no charge for expediting it. Where ten-car lots are sent it 

 expedites them; otherwise it sends them as ordinary freight. A car 

 may be made up by ten different shippers, and it will go in 120 hours 

 to Chicago at $1 25 per 100 pounds. We ask a release from the liability 

 on account of the risk. If the company has to carry the risk it would 

 insure, and would be compelled to ask a higher rate to cover the insur- 

 ance. Besides this the capacity of this company to control the move- 

 ment ends at Ogden, other roads handling the fruit east of that point. 



(Recess until 1: 30 o'clock p. m.) 



AFTERE~0(OT SESSION. 



November 21, 1894. 



[R. D. Stephens in the chair.] 



S. G. Nye, of Alameda: I was unfortunate in not having been here 

 yesterday, but in a conversation with some gentlemen of this conven- 

 tion my attention was called to a paper read by Mr. Walton, of Sutter 

 County, the President of the California Fruit Exchange, wherein he 

 expresses a desire that this convention should pass upon or give its 

 opinion upon the prospect of the future usefulness of that institution. 

 And by request I introduce this resolution: 



Whereas, Mr. B. F. Walton, President of the California Fruit Exchange, in his paper 

 read before this convention, expressed the wish that the convention should express its 

 opinion of the work of the Exchange for the year, and the prospects for its future use- 

 fulness ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed, to take the subject into con- 

 sideration, inquire into such details of the Exchange work as it may deem best, and 

 report tbereon to this convention. 



The resolution was adopted unanimously, and the following committee 

 was appointed: Judge S. G. Nye, of Oakland; H. M. LaRue, of Sacra- 

 mento; F. M. Righter, of Campbell; John S. Dore, of Fresno, and H. P. 

 Stabler, of Yuba City. 



