WEAVER, General Manager to Robert C. Schenck, June 27, 1873

Mr. Weaver to General Schenck.

Sir: Referring to your letter addressed to Mr. Hamilton Fish, upon the subject of this company’s tariff, which appeared in the Philadelphia correspondence of the Times of yesterday, and in which you state that the alleged “systematic imposition” has resulted in a large difference to the Government of the United States during the past year, I would draw your attention to the fact that, instead of being overcharged, your Government has only paid half the current rates of the company for some years past, a concession made by the companies to the American Government as a pure matter of courtesy, which appears to me to be somewhat ill-requited by the unwarranted strictures contained tin your letter.

I am, &c., &c.,