Bemis. 87

United Gas Company of Philadelphia:

Consolidated Gas Company of New York, relation to

United States Telegraph Company, absorption by Western Union
Telegraph Company....

Valuation of railroads (see Cost of construction; Capitalization.

Vanderbilt Railroad System:

Community of interests with Pennsylvania system

Fast freight lines of

Trafic

Vessels see also Water transportation):

Roberts, 272

Merchants and Miners' Transportation Co., inspection of Hayne, 417, 41

Vienna:

Telephone system: service; rates.....

Virginia:

Capitalization of street railways in.........

Wages:

Agreements of employers and employees regarding.....
Anthracite coal miners....

Bethell, 790-791

Bemis. 89

Faller. 19
Childs, 499:

Favors postal telegraph...

Parsons, 888

Hitchcock, 891

War Department, alleged discrimination in letting contracts for supplies.

Wheeler, 756

War-revenue tax, evaded by Western Union Telegraph Company... Roberts, 272
Washington, D. C., waterworks...

Washington (State), telegraph service

Water power, California, development in

Foote, 113
Clark, 208
Wheeler, 752

Water transportation (see also Coastwise transportation; Lake navigation;
Ocean transportation; River transportation):
Cotton, effect on rates from Memphis..
Differentials in favor of .......

Davant, 6, 7

Griffith, 855

Economies of steamship and railway companies compared... Guillaudeu, 448
Passenger rates, Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Co. Hayne, 419, 420
Railways, effect of development. beneficial.
Rate cutting due to

Anderson, 639, 641, 642

Griswold, 614

Watering stock (see Capitalization):

Waterworks:

Municipal ownership compared with private..Foote, 111, 112, 119; Parsons, 146

Western States:

Alkali products, freight rates on

Classification disadvantages of lack of uniformity

Markham, 439

Langley, 859

Stubbs, 763
Langley, 860
Langley, 860

Bacon, 80
Bacon, 80

Clark, 229; Randall, 249-251, 253; Roberts, 270; Hitchcock, 891, 893

Investigations of, by several States

Parsons, 185, 186

Roberts, 269

Clark, 216

Labor organizations-established iron-clad oath

Policy toward.

Parsons, 190, 191; Clark, 223; Roberts. 269.271

Messages, statistics

Newspapers, tyranny toward

Randall, 246.247

Randall, 244

Policy in business

Politics, connection with.

Postal Telegraph Company, relation to

Profits.

Excessive

Railroads, relation to

Service, inefficiency..

Stockholders.

Strikes ...

System, method of division.

Terminals, value.

War-revenue tax evaded by

West Virginia:

Coal mines..

Street railways, capitalization of

White Star Line, loss of steamers.

Whole-cargo business defined
Wicker, C. M., testimony of..

Wine, California, condition of industry
Wisconsin:

Lumber interests

Street railways, capitalization of.

World markets, effect of competition of, on freight rates
Wyandotte, Mich., freight rates on alkali products from

Wyoming:

Auditing of public accounts.

Counties of, on cash basis

Expenses in

Parsons, 191

Clark, 229
Roberts, 270
Parsons, 190, 191

Clark, 223

Parsons, 190, 191

Clark, 226

Roberts, 269

Clark. 207

Clark. 222
Roberts, 272

Howes, 715-717

Bemis. 89
Howe, 704
Howes, 701

Parsons, 126, 127

Wheeler, 753

Howes, 718

Bemis. 88, 89

Thomas, 551,552
Bacon, 72-76, 80, 81

Bemis, 93; Foote, 104, 111

Foote, 108

Foote, 107

Foote, 107, 108

Public indebtedness

State examiner..

Taxation, reduction of

Zurich telephone service

Foote, 104-111

Foote, 108

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railway, its relation to Illinois Central
Railway

Markham, 441
Bethell, 789

Baggage, Canada.

952

Banking, affiliation with railroading, early charters, United States.

909

Civil service examination system, railway employees, New South Wales

955

Classification of freight:

Page.

Common carriers, constitutional provisions relating to United States.....
Competition:

917

France..

955

909

928

951

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