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Show INVOLVES RATES ON WATER ROUTES. - What safe and uniform basis Is it possible that congress can adopt for ascertaining rates on all Interstate railroads that are just, uniform an' ronsnnible? If the cost to tho carrier of the property prop-erty and appliances and of tlis skill and labor of tho persons necessnrlh' employed In tho work of transportation transporta-tion is to be mado tho basis or rallrovl rates, other common carriers on rivers nnd hlghwiys must be Hmltol to lower ratfs In their charges, becauso the c-s' Is lower to them. Congress cm nev-r find the just equation betwoai these blverse methods of transportation, anl rn relative ruin can !) ascortalm-l bv any tribunal that cm work Justl" anl emltibly ns to all cnr'r'ers. It can only bo arbitrary, threfora. and must be unequal and nn infliction of injustice injus-tice upon some carriers and some communities. com-munities. These new questions that nr so per-plox'ng per-plox'ng to all who must deal with tham arise out of tin fact that tin system of interstate transportation has already clnmrol in Its leading feature since tin Constitution was adopted. - Railroads were not known at that j time, ncno existed and more were con-' con-' templated. Rivers and public h'gh-; h'gh-; ways were then (ho routes of all interior in-terior commerce, and tho comnnn car- j rlers did not own them. They then , belonged to tin people, anl were j equally free to all, as they aro now. If routes of transportation or rates of ( transportation were at all concerned ' In the delegation of power t-' congress 1 to regulate commorci among states, I It was not railways, li the private - ownership of corporaalons, tint were 1 to b9 regulated. Tho common law was i left to regulate all such radical changes In tho routes an 1 vehicles ownol by common carriers, as It mw stands, as j tho embodied wisdom nnd justice of many centuries, "irl will stand to regu- ) late all new methods of transportation on land and water, or through tho air, J until tho Constitution Is changed. |