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59TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 2d Session.

No. 325.

TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION.

DECEMBER 19, 1906.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

Hon. MARTIN A. KNAPP, of New York, Chairman. Hon. JUDSON C. CLEMENTS, of Georgia.

Hon. CHARLES A. PROUTY, of Vermont.

Hon. FRANCIS M. COCKRELL, of Missouri.

Hon. FRANKLIN K. LANE, of California.

Hon. EDGAR E. CLARK, of Iowa.

Hon. JAMES S. HARLAN, of Illinois.

EDWARD A. MOSELEY, Secretary.

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Rates on potatoes..

Lumber rates from Dalton to points in Virginia

Rates on articles from Cincinnati and Memphis to Helena and McRae.........

Rates on beer.

Coal rates....

Complaints of unreasonable rates dismissed

Transcontinental rates on woodenware..

Rates on screen doors and windows..

Lumber rates from Dalton to Cincinnati

Freight rates from Chicago and St. Louis to Griffin.

Rates on reconsigned hay from East St. Louis.

Discrimination in furnishing cars.

Overcharges on hay

Through routes and joint rates.

Complaints before the Commission

Hearings and investigations... -

Cases settled and discontinued

Civil cases pending in the courts...

Criminal proceedings

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Cost of transporting a single article.....

Irregularity of rates between different parts of same State.

Stoppage of trains at county seats....

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Preliminary report on the income and expenditures of railways for year

A. Names and compensation of all employees, together with a statement of

appropriations and expenditures.

B. Points decided by the Commission during the year...

C. Formal and informal complaints filed during the year

D. Safety appliances and railway accidents..

E. Tariff circulars issued by the Commission..

F. Statistics of railways in the United States. Report for year ending June

30, 1905

G. Preliminary report on the income account of railways in the United States

for the year ending June 30, 1906

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