Présentation de l'éditeur
San Francisco, March 25, i88t. Hon. A bram S. Hewitt, House of Rep7 esentatives, Was Jiington. Dear Sir :T he abuses in the system of overland transportation between the Eastern and the Pacific States have all sprung from a disregard of the principle of impartiality which should govern the administration of all public trusts. The companies operating the overland railroads have arbitrarily discriminated between individuals and between places, as their own interests or those of their managers dictate. By this method they have succeeded in monopolizing the business of transportation, and levying an unjust and, doubtless, unlawful tax on all commerce between the communities concerned ;they have almost destroyed the lines of clipper ships which formerly did so large a share of the carrying ;and thus, besides contributing materially to the destruction of our mercantile marine, they have greatly enhanced the cost of the exportation of the surplus wheat crop of this coast. This last season it has cost our farmers as high ass per ton for the carriage of their wheat to England. Two, three, and four years ago 2.ios and 3. were current rates. This killing enhancement of freights is directly connected with the system of railroad management which deprives shipping of any west-bound cargo, and throws the cost of the whole voyage on the freight hence to Liverpool. They have imposed on our exports, and on those of the Atlantic States which have commerce with us, an arbitrary ad valorem tariff, adjusted at all points to the maximum. They now threaten to divide our community into two hostile parties, intercourse between which is prohibited. That these abuses are mviolation of law, cannot, I think, be doubted ;but from our peculiar dual form of government and the imperfection of our HE.
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