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FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

DECEMBER 1, 1890.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

THOMAS M. COOLEY, Chairman.

WILLIAM R. MORRISON.

AUGUSTUS SCHOONMAKER.

WALTER L. BRAGG.

WHEELOCK G. VEAZEY.

EDWARD A. MOSELEY, Secretary.

REPORT

OF THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMERCE COMMISSION.

OFFICE OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION,

Washington, D. C., November 29, 1890.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

The Interstate Commerce Commission has the honor to submit its fourth annual report, as follows:

WORK OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR.

Since the transmission of its last annual report to Congress the Commission, in addition to its regular sessions in Washington, where much the greater portion of complaints are heard, and where the general administrative work is done, has held special sessions, made investiga tions, or taken testimony, by one or more of its members, at Boston, Mass., New York, N. Y., Baltimore, Md., Newport News, Va., Chattanooga, Tenn., Chicago and Peoria, Ill., Sioux City, Iowa, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., Omaha, Kearney, and Lincoln, Nebr., Topeka, Kans., Denver, Colo., and Salt Lake City, Utah.

The names and compensation of all employés, together with a statement of appropriation and expenditures, will be found in Appendix A. An abstract of the points decided by the Commission in such controversies as have assumed formal shape and been disposed of during the year upon arguments presented will be found in Appendix B, hereto attached. These controversies represent but a small portion of the work of the Commission, the major part of which ends with correspondence or with bringing managing officers and complaining patrons together for consideration and discussion of controverted points and for advice upon them. Those who at first were inclined to operate upon public opinion, with a view to the possible repeal of the law, by showing that it was oppressive to the carriers or to localities or sections of the country, or by the assignment of other reasons which might seem to justify a repeal, appear for the most part to have abandoned that course of action and to have accepted the existing legislation as likely, either in

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