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our section. In making an effort to abate those discriminating conditions 
the Eastern Fruit Growers’ Association tentatively employed an able at- 
torney in Washington to present our case before the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. The case has been prepared and we hope it will be presented 
this coming winter. There is a financial matter involved in that case 
however before it can be properly presented to the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. The matter of finances will be taken up at a special meet- 
ing of the executive committee at a later time, and consequently I will not 
refer to that further now. 
I wish to say, however, that the attorney employed by the Eastern Fruit 
Growers to take up this matter of discriminating freight rates for the 
section of country immediately around Washington (that is, embracing 
five states) is here with us this afternoon. He can tell you practically 
what has been done; what he hopes to accomplish; what you ought to do, 
and what the general situation is in regard to transportation facilities as 
it relates to the Eastern fruit grower. 
I have great pleasure in introducing to you now Judge Arthur B. Hayes, 
of Washington, who is the counsel employed by the Eastern Fruit Growers’ 
Association to look after this matter of freight rate discrimination. 
Mr. Hayes: It was my extreme good fortune on yesterday to be pres- 
ent at the meeting of the State Horticultural Society of the State of Mary- 
land in Baltimore, and while there I had the opportunity to look over the 
exhibit made by the affiliated agricultural and horticultural associations 
of that State; and I want to say that throughout my experience in my life, 
having been interested in the production of fruit myself to some extent for 
a good many years, I have never seen a finer, more beautiful, moire complete 
exhibition of the products of the soil than I saw in Baltimore yesterday. 
And I say that in the presence of Senator Lupton here and other gentle- 
men who are outside of the State of Maryland, because I can assure you I 
have never seen a state exhibit from Virginia, West Virginia or Pennsyl- 
vania— so that I can say that without drawing any invidious distinction be- 
tween the states. However, if the various states which are embraced in 
the term known as the East so far as it relates to fruit growing can produce 
exhibitions like that, it speaks well for this great eastern country. 
The previous speaker referred to some freight rates that he had ob- 
served regarding transportation of fruit and butter, and other things; and 
these matters when coming to notice at first blush seem to indicate some 
very decided discriminations which really do not exist, for this reason: 
There is such a thing iij transportation as a producer and a common car- 
rier of freight forcing an illegitimate market; and that will be appreciated 
when you understand that there is an effort, and has been an effort for many 
years, to bring the products of the west coast into the states of Maryland, 
Virginia and West Virginia for sale in competition with the products of 
your own states. That is an illegitimate competition; you reach an un- 
natural market, and the railroads attempt to aid that illegitimate market 
situation by making rates which will allow the western producer to enter 
