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required toykeep their roads in proper. re-
pair, and pay their necessary operating
expenses ID their moving, handling and ter
minal facilities, for publ security and con
venience, and to reduce their transportation
charges, when such facilities are in : per-
feet and complete condition. 5..
4. A law prohibiting all railway COM
panies from making unjust and excessive
determinations against places which are
not competing points.
5. A law prohibiting all railway com
.panies from delegating their business to
separate corporations, now known as fast
freight lines, the entire receipts Of which
do not 90 into the treasury of the road over
which they run. -,
6. A law to prohibit the leasing, consol-
idation or combination of parallel lines OF
road by which competition is destroyed and
the peoples highway converted into mo-
| nopolies.
I. A law prohibiting railway companies
than is necessary for the operation of their
roads, and prohibiting railway companies
| from engaging in mining or any business
other than that Of transportation.
8. A law making it a penal ofense for any
pass
Of any railway company, and PROHIBITING
railway companies from granting such
passes to any but regular employees Of such
railways.
All the above provisions should be ma
tional. but are also applicable to separate
States as we'll. Some Of them have bear
ing upon the question of competition, but
| the great good to be realized from this lat
ter power must come from Aational double
or quadruple track railroad exclusively for
freight, to be built and operated in the in
terest of the whole people. While opinions
may honestly differ as to how and by whom
such a road be constructed, yet there can be
no such difference of opinion as to the me-
cessity Of having such road our water
lines are closed by ice during large por-
tion of the year, and even if they were
always open there would be abundant busi-
ness for such a road to do in the transpor-
tation Of live stock, produce, and manu-
factures, which must have speedy trans
portation. In the examination Of the sub
ject your Committee are forced to arrive at
the conclusion that we are not likely to
soon obtain the much needed relief, unless
the road is built and owned by the people
through the National Government.
In regard to the difficulty Of locating
such i road there can be no serious trouble.
In the opinion of this Committee such a
road should start from New York and fol-
low as nearly as possible direct westerly
line to some point in Ohio, to be determined
by proper survey; here two branches
should diverge, one to St. Louis and the
| other to Chicago, thus reaching the three
great receiving one distributing points of
the country and forming great arteries of
commerce to which other cities and sections
of country could build connections.
PROCEEDINGS IN WASHINGTON.
Josiah Quincy, President Of the Ameri-
can Cheap Transportation Association. in
accordance with resolution by that body,
has issued an address and call for meeting
to be held in Washington, commencing Jan.
Il, 1874, to discuss the subject of cheap
transportation and the best means of secur-
ing it. Delegates will be present from ev-
cry section Of the oountry.-N Y. World,
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