. The literary digest. duced to far below $1,000,000 a year. Postmaster-GeneralVilas recommended this course, and his recommendation has beenbefore the country for years, commanding approval wherever ithas been studied, yet in the absence of a strenuous demand fromthe general public the abuse goes on unrectified. The Outlook concludes that the question of railroad charges isnot to be settled offhand, but that since the present charges arepractically those of 1873, and no reduction has been made since1878, while the roads claim that general freight rates during thisperiod have been reduced more
. The literary digest. duced to far below $1,000,000 a year. Postmaster-GeneralVilas recommended this course, and his recommendation has beenbefore the country for years, commanding approval wherever ithas been studied, yet in the absence of a strenuous demand fromthe general public the abuse goes on unrectified. The Outlook concludes that the question of railroad charges isnot to be settled offhand, but that since the present charges arepractically those of 1873, and no reduction has been made since1878, while the roads claim that general freight rates during thisperiod have been reduced more than 40 per cent., a like reductionin charges to the Government ought to be made. Further, theGovernment should pay the railroads as much as the express com-panies pay them for similar services, but not more. At presentthey are said to be paid at least three times as much by the Gov-ernment as by the express companies. H^H^ipBiP 1 fe ? ;_**^ ^i^».-- ?•^^( i^ H|;/..: J m f ^ f M^B ^^^^4 1 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ r k. TERENCE V. POWDERLY, OF PENNSYLVANIA, Commissioner of Immigration. J CALHOUN, OF ILLINOIS. Interstate Commerce Commissioner. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES. 366 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [March 26, 1898
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