Freight rates LXXX; CXVI-CXX CLXXIV CIII-CIV CCXLIX-CCLI Scalping tickets Transcontinental railroads: Consolidation. Transportation, Department of, establishment advocated Uniform public accounting. Union Pacific Railway, combination with Southern Pacific and Central LXVII-LXVIII CCLXXVIII-CCLXXIX CCLXXVIII-CCLXXIX CLXV-CLXVI CCLXXI Seamen, ocean and lakes. Stevedores Telegraph employees CCLV CCLXV-CCLXVIII CCLXVII CCXXIV-CCXXV Telephone employees CCXXXVIII Water transportation (see also Discrimination between places; Long Western Maryland Railroad, parallel with Pennsylvania, and Balti- Western States (see also Colorado; Pacific Coast), freight rates.. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. TRANSPORTATION. ATLANTA, GA., March 21, 1900. TESTIMONY OF MR. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP. General manager, Cornelia and Tellulah Falls Railroad, Gainesville, Ga. The subcommission of the United States Industrial Commission met at the Kimball House at 9 a. m., Senator Kyle presiding. Mr. Samuel C. Dunlap, general manager of the Cornelia and Tallulah Falls Railroad, Gainesville, Ga., was introduced as a witness at 10.40 a. m., and, being duly sworn, testified as follows: Q. (By Senator KYLE.) You may give your name, post-office address, and vocation.-A. Samuel C. Dunlap, Gainesville, Ga. Q. (By Representative LIVINGSTON.) You are connected with railroad enterprises of the State?-A. For the present I have some connection, sir. I have two local roads under my supervision. Q. (Interrupting.) What is the condition of the railroads in Georgia and the South generally, financially?-A. I want to state first that I have two small roads under my management. One is 65 miles and the other is 20 miles long. I am receiver for the first road, running from Gainesville to Social Circle-the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern-appointed by the superior court, and though I am general manager of the Tallulah Falls Railway, running from Cornelia to Tallulah Falls, I am not an original railroad man. I have been a lawyer most of my life, up to about 1893, when I was appointed United States marshal. I went from that to the receivership of that road, and I have been managing it since. As far as I know about the financial conditions of the roads, one of my roads is insolvent, and the other has not got any money. As to the larger systems, I think they are all pros perous. Q. (By Senator KYLE.) You do not think that represents the condition of all roads in the South?-A. No, sir; I think the railroads are making money now, all of them. Q. (By Representative LIVINGSTON.) How are the railroads controlled in this country, simply by the board of directors, or by railroad commissions, or jointly?— A. I did not catch that question. Q. How are passenger rates and everything fixed; by railroad commission?-A. Well, the railroad commission make rates, and I believe the roads conform to the particular commission. The railroads have an association, the Southern Freight Association, of which Mr. Parrott is the chairman. They regulate this through it to some extent. I am not a member of that association. Q. Your roads are not included?-A. I conform generally to the rules, but I am not a member. Being a court officer I did not care to hamper myself with any outside regulations. I have a connection with the Southern Railroad at Gainesville, with the Seaboard Air Line at Winder, and with the Georgia at Social Circle, which is leased now to the Louisville and Nashville and the Coast Line. All those systems are friendly with me. I give them business and get business from them. On the little Talulah road here I depended entirely upon the Southern for all my through business. Q. The reason why you were subpoenaed is that you are controlling independent lines that were supposed to be entirely outside of these associations and combinations. We hear complaints of the roads giving advantages to terminal points, and we will be pleased to have you say to the commission what there is in this complaint about long 16A- -1 1 |