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Excerpt from Long and Short Haul by Common Carriers: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session on a Bill to Amend Section 4 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, Passed February 4, 1887, and Subsequent Amendments Thereof The result of this is not a free and fair distribution of the com merce of the country under normal rates, but the centralization of traffic in more favorably located territories, so far as water competi tion is concerned. Now, it would seem to the speaker, that it is better policy, as stated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, that this so-called water competition would not only be met in fair part from the points threatened in the east by water competition, but in view of the fact that the haul from western producing points is from a thousand to miles nearer, it would be preferable to meet in part at least that competition from the western markets. May I illustrate a little further? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.