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Show : :ffintGE:.F9Il' GOULD ; FORT WORTpVTex., Hay 15 Sam II. Cowan of Fort .Wortlj, general t-, t-, torney of the Texas Cattle-Raisers' as- eoclaion.tLijd greneral-attorney pf the newly erKanlrei National Live stock; Growers association gives oijt ft.rfply to A. C. .!Laf8c manager of the ' Gould lines, who" was before the Senate Sen-ate Committee on Interstate Commerce ! Baturday. ' - -'. He says In part: "His statement that what 1 haa said In arguments before the Senate and House committees were "based partly. Jf not altogether, upon the allegations ' In the cattle case,' Is not the truth, as Is shown' by the committee reports. Theyi were 'baaed partly upon the facts - developed by the testimony In the case uhere I reported fhe Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission their investigation of the advances made in the rates oa class roods and -commodities to Texas from St. Louis and other Eastern and Northern points . x' " ' . "He tries to establish that cattle rates are too low by comparing the value of the commodity with the rate: yet he testified at Chicago that no such basis should control; when be was trying to sustain a higher rate oa cattle for stock shipper a distance pf 359 miles from western Iowa to Chicago, than be trave to the . packers for a car of dressed meat worth twice as much 14 the same train from Dm'aba, 500 miles. Bates Not Based Fairly, "The rate on his road from Scott City to St. Louis on cattle 700 miles Is 32ty cents,-a fair rate: the rate from Dallas. 685 miles, over his road "Is 424 cents. Kansas cattle are more valuable than Texas cattle. 'yet the Texas rate Is" 30 per cent higher, with a density of traffic traf-fic per mile of line 40 per cent greater from Texas. His rate from Sheridan Lake, Colo., is 23 cents on cattle to Kansas Glty, 600 miles; from . Fort Worth. 608 mlle3, 3614 cents; the Colorado Colo-rado cattle are the most valuable. Is our rate just, considering that in five years they have by combination, among themselves advanced It 'cents? I say nq man who so contends is a safe man to make rate$ for the public. Not Based on Value." i "Now, Jf the Fort Worth car of cat-tie cat-tie is worth, as he states, f6i8 and a Kansas or Colorado load is worth S3 per cent more, which Is the fact, J want him to tell somebody, since he charges 18 .per cent of the Forth Worth cattle tq haul them, why we are not entitled to have It done for the same per cent as the Kansas man, that Is. 8 per cent of their value for the same distance. Pf course, nobody bases rates on the value, ar.d vnever did; it Is merely one circumstance; and cuts little Ice." 1 1 . 1 1 1 . . L |