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  • Courteous employes, 447
  • Courts ordered restoration of Erie securities, 170
    • should not aid, 381
  • C., R. I. & P. Railroad, 284
  • Crosby, J. O., story of tramp, 178
  • Crusaders, 92
  • Cuba, 70
  • Cullom committee report, 131
  • Customs laws, 15
  • Dabney, W. D., drift toward railroad centralization, 261
    • favors pooling, 261
    • favors State control, 261
  • Darius I., work on canal, 23
  • Dartmouth College case, 315
    • decision, 259
  • Davis, C. Wood, 413
    • on cost of roads, 187
  • Dows, David, & Co., 138
  • Davis, Jefferson, plea, 276
  • Delegates to conventions, 224
  • Demand in other States for reform, 331
  • Denmark, 35, 58
    • first-class passenger rates, 439
  • Depew, Mr., 138
  • Depew says all railroad men are politicians, 366
  • Devices, various, 296
  • Differentials, 296
  • Discriminations, 118, 137, 143, 156, 147, 160
    • damaging, 248
    • in classifications, 148
    • in Iowa, 337
    • practiced openly, 331
  • Dillon, Judge, 411
    • Sidney, 273
    • on cost of Pacific roads, 185
  • Directors and officials of corporations, 316
    • character of, 406
    • with personal interests 317
  • Director-General, 431
    • should have power to remove managers, 432
  • Distance disregarded, 331
  • Dividends, 164, 187
    • by fluctuations, 302
    • Standard Oil Company, 121
  • Donations, 329
    • for benefit of public, 376
    • made by railroad companies, 446
    • to Pacific roads, 176
    • to railroads, 125
  • Donation to road completed, 320
  • Doud amendment, 331
  • Dual government, 401
  • Dual sovereignty must be recognized, 36
  • Hungary, 54
  • Hungarian zone system, 282, 440
  • Huntington, C. P., 347
    • letter of, 346

  • Illinois canals, 42
    • Granger laws, 331
  • Importance of transportation facilities, 17
  • Improved appliances should be used, 450
  • Income of railroads, 128
    • per capita, 292
  • Increase of traffic under zone system, 442
  • India supplied Nineveh and Babylon, Greece and Rome, 18
  • Individual entitled to full use, 392
  • Inflation, 163
  • Influences at work to create public sentiment, 294
  • Iniquitous taxation, 307
  • Injunction asked for, 323
  • Inspection service should be established, 432
  • Insurance provided for, 451
  • Interchangeable 1,000-mile tickets, 445
  • Interstate Commerce Act, 85, 319
  • Interstate Commerce Commission, sixth annual report, 160
  • Interstate Commerce law attacked, 162
  • Intimidation of railroad employes, 226
  • Inventors, 126
  • Investments, none pay so well, 248
  • Iowa attorney, 210
    • Bill of Rights, 445
    • Central Air Line, 324
    • City, road built to, 319
    • Commissioners enjoined, 343
    • Commissioners' valuable service, 336
    • Falls & S. C. Co., 325
    • General Assembly passed maximum tariff act, 264
    • General Assembly passed act authorizing commissioners to make prima facie rates, 264
    • law, features of, 341
    • misunderstanding of, 342
    • vindicated, 266
    • legislation, 319
    • politics, 311
    • prosperity accelerated, 345
    • railroad construction, 288
    • the queen, 348
  • Irish tenants, 287
  • Iron strap rail, 46
  • Itaki Atabeck, road seen to this day, 19
  • Italy, 57
    • canals, 34

  • Jackson, President, 367
  • Japan, 60
  • Java, 61
  • Jeans, Mr. J. S., 269
    • on railroad revenues, 437
    • on state railroad, 410
  • Jefferson's inquiries, 37268
  • Reorganization of the M. &. M. R. R., 322
  • Report of Cullom committee, 353
  • Reports of Interstate Commission, 366
  • Revenues increased by Granger law, 246, 332
  • Revolution and anarchy, 299
  • Rhenish League, 94
  • Ricks, Judge, 449
  • Ridgeway, Jacob, 106
  • Right of control rests upon firmer ground, 318
  • Right of way, cost of, 370
  • River and harbor improvements, 453
  • Rivers, improvement of, 44
  • Robber knights, 93, 149
  • Robbers and feudal knights, depredations being tax, 29
  • Rob Roy, 258
  • Robinson, H. P., railway in politics, 308
  • Rocket, the, 49
  • Rogers, Thorold, 454
  • Roman Empire, after downfall roads destroyed, 28
  • Roman postal service, 27
  • Romans learned art of paving roads from Carthaginians, 24
  • Rome, 91
    • connecting link between antiquity and mediÆvalism, 24
    • extent, population, roads, etc., 25
  • Roads built from proceeds of stocks and bonds, 373
  • Roads built only when immediately profitable, 328
    • early, 37
    • pioneers of enlightenment and political eminence, 17
    • subject to legislative control, 327
    • utility of good, recognized in colonial times, 36
  • Russia, 58
    • roads, 35
  • Rutter, J. H., agent of New York Central, 116
  • Salaries, American railways pay the highest, 420
  • Saloon men politicians, 366
  • San Domingo, 71
  • San Salvador, 70
  • Sanspareil, the, 49
  • Savings under Government management, 422
  • Scandinavian Peninsula, 58
  • Scandinavian roads and canals, 35
  • Schedule rates made by Iowa Commission, 342
  • Schedules should be submitted to bureau, 432
  • Scriptures, roads of the, 22
  • Second-class passenger rates,
    • why not successful, 282
  • Secrecy a source of evils, 402
  • Select committee, 353
  • Select Committee on Transportation, 351
  • Senate committee, 172
  • Senators and Congressmen raise campaign funds, 436
  • Servility of Interstate Commerce Commission, 203
  • Sesostris cut canal, 23
  • Shippers given favors, 219,

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