Show railroad and water trans transportation p or tation in discussing the subject of water transportation and its ro relation lation to the railroads cart carl gray president of the union pacific system davs the use of inland waterways tor for transportation is not new in all but the southern bouthern part ot of the country it can be utilized seasonally only and only a portion ot of this season extends into the period of heaviest traffic alter after many years of 0 experience inland water traffic Is confined con tined largely to tonnages ton nages such as coal ore and grain and in practically every case ol of moment the tonnage already has or ultimately will seek rail transportation coastwise a serious outlook presents itself the coasts are more thickly settled proportionately than the interior and their industrial development is much greater competition can fairly be said to be untrammeled steamships have not been content with strictly coastwise traffic but have reached back five and s six ix hundred miles into the interior from both coasts and have made serious inroads into the traffic of 0 the transcontinental railroads just such competition as nearly proved the ruin of 0 rail carriers in the eighties and nineties is present here in its most virulent form american shipping is given the monopoly of coastwise coat wise business and I 1 think properly so but with this privilege should go responsibility as a common carrier and regulation equally as thorough and effective as is imposed upon our carriers by rail this cannot be accomplished and a uniform treatment insured unless and until the coa coastwise tilse carriers are subjected to the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce commission |