EXPRESS RATES:
Express Rates: An Object Lesson Public Regulation vs. Corporation Extortion THIS graphic chart is one of twenty of the striking object lessons in the value of public regulation of common earners...
...Wisconsin and Minnesota are contiguous States...
...The chart compares graphically the high level of the American and Wells-Fargo express rates in force in Wisconsin with the scale of maximum legal rates promulgated upon investigation by the Railroad & Warehouse Commission of Minnesota and in force in that State for the past three years...
...in North Carolina, by 17 to 100 per cent...
...The only reason for the great difference in express rates in the two States is that heretofore express rates have not been brought under the corrective influence of Wisconsin's busy Commission...
...in Virginia, by 31 per cent, on the average...
...The express companies* scale for Wisconsin is shown to range from 11.1 per cent, to 53.8 per cent, higher than the Minnesota Commission scale for the same distance...
...It was shown that the express rates of Wells, Fargo & Co...
...Corporation Extortion THIS graphic chart is one of twenty of the striking object lessons in the value of public regulation of common earners taught by the evidence introduced at the hearing held last week in Milwaukee before the State Railroad Commission, to support the demand of the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee for the reduction of express rates in Wisconsin...
...Other similar object lessons were given at the Milwaukee hearing, by Attorney Walter Drew, both by charts and by voluminous statistical tables comparing Wisconsin express rates with those in force in other States...
...and higher than rates issued by the State Commissions in New Hampshire and Oklahoma by 6 to 66 per cent...
...The carrier* have agreed to the Minnesota rates, and have r.ever questioned their reasonableness in court...
...in Georgia, by 28 per cent, on the average...
...in Mi&souri, by 28 per cent, on the average...
...in Nebraska, by 3 to 00 per cent...
...and of the American, National and United States Express companies in Wisconsin are higher than rates for like distances in Iowa, by from 7 to 50 per cent...
...Conditions are substantially the same in both...
...in Texas, by 7 to 66 per cent...
Vol. 2 • June 1910 • No. 23
