Report of Committee on Railroads of the Senate, Nineteenth General Assembly, Iowa: As Per Resolution of Senate No; 4 (Classic Reprint) by Henry W Rothert (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Report of Committee on Railroads of the Senate, Nineteenth General Assembly, Iowa: As Per Resolution of Senate No; 4 To the Horable Senate of the Nineteenth General Assembly of Iowa: Senator Rothert, from the Committee on Railways, submitted the following report: Mr. President: Your Committee on Railways to whom was referred Senate Resolution No. Four; to-wit, Resolved, That the Railroad Committee of the Senate are instructed hereby to inquire: 1st. If competing railroad corporations are in the habit of agreeing that one road shall take all the freight, or the greater portion thereof, to and from, or to or from, any one point or territory in the State, while the other companies with their railroad lines there located refuse to take freight, in order to carry out such an agreement. 2d. That said committee make such inquiry concerning shipments at Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Ottumwa, or any point where there are competing railroad lines, which to said committee shall seem proper, and to ascertain all about such agreements, if any exist; and said committee shall have the right to subp na and compel the attendance of witnesses, and shall have an statement which any citizen may desire to make on said subject by written statement in affidavit form or by being personally present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.