INDEX
- Abbett, Gov., 113
- Absentee ownership, 287
- Abuses, 101
- Accidents, 450
- Acworth, Mr. W. M., 276
- Adams, C. F., Jr., heresy, 260
- Africa, 61
- roads constructed, 22
- Agriculture among Babylonians and Assyrians, 19
- Albany Evening Argus, 340
- Albia, 324
- Algiers, 62
- Algona, 328
- American colonies, 100
- Americans would avail themselves of low rates, 445
- American Transfer Company, 119
- Amsterdam, 97
- owes to canal, 32
- Ann Arbor Strikers, 449
- Area of land grants, 329
- Argentine Republic, 68
- Arrogance, 453
- Asia, 59
- early nations of, 18
- Athens connected with Piræns, protected road, 24
- Atkinson, Edward, 248
- Atlantic nurseryman, 148
- Attorney-General held that legislature had not the power to prescribe rates, 330
- Attorney, slow to accept fee, 402
- Augustus instituted postal service, 27
- Australia, 64
- Austria, 54
- Average fares per mile, 444
- B. & M. Co., 324
- Baker, C. W., 262
- Balkan Peninsula, 59
- physical features, important factor, 24
- Ballou, H. S., 139
- Baltimore and Ohio, watered stock, 172
- Bankers' Magazine, 301
- Banks and insurance, not private, 403
- Barosz, M., 441
- B., C. R. & N. Railroad Co., increased prosperity of, 344
- Beach, C. F., Jr., 395
- law of private corporations, 316
- Bering Strait, 89
- Belgium, 56, 409
- cost of right of way, 370
- Bessemer's invention, 374
- Blackstone, T. B., 413
- Blatchford, Justice, 213, 290
- Blinkensop, 48
- Board of Railroad Commissioners, 428
- Bolles, A. S., 303
- Bonded debt of M. & M. R. R., 322
- Bonham, John M., 268
- Boone, 327
- Boston Advertiser, 340
- Bradley, Justice, 213
- Braithwaite, 49
- Branch roads, 306
- Brazil, 69
- Brewer, Justice, 214, 215, 455
- Bridge across the Mississippi, 319
- British railways, cost of right of way, 370
- Brown, Justice, 214
- Bryce, Prof., 391
- Budd vs. N. Y., 213, 290, 295
- Buddha, commended roads to care of pious, 18
- Burmah, 61
- Burstall, 49
- California railways, 122
- Calmar, 328
- Camden and Amboy charter, 113
- Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, 102
- Canada, 73
- canals, 43
- Canadian Pacific, 74
- Canal, Erie, 40
- Canals, Canadian, 43
- Candidates, railroad, 226
- servile to railroads, 206
- Cape Colony, 63
- Capitalization of railroads, 86
- Capital of Standard Oil Company, 121
- Carey, H. C., 110
- Carload lots, 386
- rates, 140
- Carthage, harbor, fleets, roads, 24
- Carthaginians, 91
- commerce of, constructed roads, 22
- Cars refused, 120
- Cassat, Mr., testimony of, 121
- C., B. & Q. R. R. strike, 285
- Cedar Rapids and Missouri River R. R. Co., 324
- Central America, 70
- Central Pacific, 175
- scheme, 347
- Ceylon, 61
- Charlemagne repaired and built roads, 28
- Chicago and Milwaukee system, cost of, 235
- Chile, 68
- Chinese built roads before the Christian era, 21
- Classification, 363
- Clay, Mr., 303
- Clews, Henry, 304
- Clear Lake, 328
- Clerk of U. S. Court, 217
- Cleveland, President, 359
- Clinton, 328
- Club address of C. F. Adams, Jr., 257
- C., M. & St. P. R. R. Co. vs. Minn., 213
- Coal and kindred articles, 386
- Coffin, Mr. L. S., 452
- Colbert, idea of postal service, 30
- Coleridge, Lord, 454
- Combinations, 189
- regulate, 299
- Commission evil, 420
- Commission received, 119
- Commissioner system, 246
- Commission, Interstate, reviews Judge Brewer's rule, 365
- Commissions acquire expert knowledge, 384
- Commission's decisions, 359
- Commission system adopted in Iowa, 335
- Committee bill passed, 354
- Commodities, character of, 373
- Common law, sufficient in theory but fails in practice, 268
- Competition, 190, 196
- Communism, strength of, 454
- Conduit company, 117
- Confiscation of railroads, 293
- Conflicts between labor and capital, 448
- Congress, appropriations for improving rivers, 44
- Congressmen imposed upon, 17
- Connecticut railroad construction, 288
- Conscientious managers cannot retain business, 399
- Consolidation of C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co., 323
- tendency to, 262
- Conspiracies should not be legalized, 260
- Conspiracy, 296
- Constitutions made for, 457
- Contests, expense of in Great Britain, 371
- Contributions to Pacific roads, 180
- Control, suggestions for, 425
- Cooley, Judge, 315, 359
- in reference to State and National Commissions, 426
- Corporations, danger from, 223
- willing to pay for questionable services, 222
- Corrupt practice act in Mass., 223
- Cost of American roads, 187
- Council Bluffs, 324
- line completed to, 323
- 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
- Senator, 353
- Customs laws, 15
- Dabney, W. D., drift toward railroad centralization, 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
- Dillon, Judge, 411
- Directors and officials of corporations, 316
- Director-General, 431
- should have power to remove managers, 432
- Distance disregarded, 331
- Dividends, 164, 187
- Donations, 329
- Donation to road completed, 320
- Doud amendment, 331
- Dual government, 401
- Dual sovereignty must be recognized, 425
- Dubuque & S. C. Co., 324
- Dutch East India Company, 97
- Duties of common carriers, 315
- Duty of state, 456
- Earnings diverted, 403
- Earnings of Liverpool and Manchester, 50
- East India Company, 99, 303
- Economy of fuel, 375
- Editors, 221, 231
- controlled by counting-room, 339
- Egyptians, commerce of, constructed roads, 22
- Electoral Commission, 215
- Eminent domain, 314
- Spelling on, 317
- Employes fare better under Government management, 412
- England, 99
- roads maintained by statute and parish labor, 32
- English landlords, 287
- Entrance into railway service regulated, 448
- Ericsson, 449
- Erie Canal, 40
- Railroad, 170
- European and American investments compared, 371
- European history began in Greece, 24
- Evans, Oliver, 47
- Executive charged with construction and maintenance of roads and canals, 22
- Executives influenced, 225
- Experiments with wooden rail, 46
- Extortion, effects of, 111
- Farmers' Alliance, 300
- Farmers' pool, 300
- Federal agencies, need of improved, 430
- Federal courts, influence of, 212
- Ferocity of public opinion in the West, 312
- Feudal features, 455
- Field, Justice, 214, 269
- Fink, Albert, 200
- First rail tracks, 46
- First railroad survey in Iowa, 319
- Fort Dodge, 325
- Fortunes, great, 400
- made, 301
- France, 54
- Frederick the Great built turnpikes and canals, 31
- Frederick William IV., 53
- Free competition, 407
- Freight agents, 383
- Freight carried by railroads in the United States, 292
- Friction under Iowa law, 341
- Galena and Chicago Union, 164
- Gallatin advocated roads and canals, 38
- Garfield, President, 224
- on Dartmouth College case, 316
- Garrett, J. W., 83
- Germany, first mail service, 31
- first railroad, 53
- German instructions to employes, 447
- Georgia prescribed rates, 289
- Glenwood, 337
- Gibbon, 92
- Gibbon concerning postal service, 27
- Goodman, Mr., testimony of, 138
- Gospel of wealth, 404
- Göta canal, 35
- Gould's bulldozing, 452
- Gould, Jay, 212, 224, 269
- on cost of Pacific roads, 184
- Governor called extra session of General Assembly, 321
- Government ownership drawbacks, 412
- Granger cases, 212
- Granger, Judge, 229
- Granger law did not retard construction, 335
- of Iowa, 332
- Granger laws, moderate, 322
- repealed, 246
- Granger movement, 84
- Granger system in Wisconsin, 245
- Grant and Conkling, 224
- Grant, Judge, 411
- Great Britain, canals, 33
- Great Northern Railroad Co., 185
- Grecian civilization passed to Romans and then to other nations, 24
- Greek geographers, praise of highways of Hindostan, 19
- Gresham, Judge, 212
- Grinnell, Hon. J. B., 411
- Gross and net earnings in Iowa, 344
- Hadley, Prof. A. T., 245
- Hadley's address before Bankers' Association, 284
- Hadrian improved postal service, 27
- Hagar, Mr., 109
- Hackworth, 49
- Hale, Lord Chief Justice, 316
- Harrison, President, 214
- Hanseatic League, 94
- object, extent, power, 95
- Haul, length of, compared, 372
- Hayes-Tilden contest, 215
- Hayti, 71
- Hepburn committee, 137, 146
- Hindoo culture and broad statesmanship, 18
- Hoe printing-press, 231
- Holland, 98
- largest canal of, 31
- Hoyt, J., & Co., 138
- Hudson, J. F., 250, 266, 407
- Hudson River Railroad accident, 451
- Humboldt said of roads of Incas, 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
- Jefferson's inquiries, 37
- Judges, servile, 162
- use passes, 208
- Jurists, eminent, 234
- Kansas Midland, 187
- Kent, 314
- Kirkman, M. M., 239
- Labor organizations, 448
- Labor-saving causes, 375
- Lake transportation, 453
- Land grant policy, wisdom of, 320
- to Dubuque & S. C. R. R., 325
- Land grants to Iowa railroads, 320
- value of, 325
- Languedoc Canal, 30
- Lawyer and farmer, 209
- Lawyers, briefless, 219
- Legislation, 299
- of California, 123
- Legislative campaign of 1887, 339
- Lincoln, President, 216
- story of the Irishman, and the pig, 271
- Lines projected, 288
- Lobbies frowned out of legislative halls, 402
- Lobby, 219
- formidable, 339
- Locomotive, early inventors, 47
- reward for, 49
- Long and short haul clause, 297
- of Iowa law, 341
- Louis XIV., 98
- Louis XI. transferred postal service to state, 30
- Lowest rates in Europe, 409
- Mails carried free in France, 373
- Managers arrogant, 331
- M. & M. R. R. Co., 319
- Marshall, Chief Justice, 350
- Marshalltown, 324
- Massachusetts Commission, 428
- Mathews, Judge Stanley, 269
- Maximilian established postal route, 31
- Maximum charges, 331
- McDill, Hon. J. W., as a lobbyist, 238
- McGregor grant resumed, 326, 327
- McGregor Western R. R. Co., 325
- Means employed to control legislation, 218
- Mesopotamia, inhabitants perfect cart, 19
- Methods for control, 402
- impracticable, 425
- Mexico, 72
- Mileage of the future, 389
- Minneapolis and Chicago conventions, 224
- Minnesota case, 295
- Missouri Pacific, 187
- Mitchell, Alexander, 232
- Modern doctrine, Kent's rule, 314
- Monopoly, 317
- in transportation, 90
- Morgan, Appleton, 250
- Mortgaging prohibited, 434
- Munn vs. Illinois, 213, 290
- Muscatine, branch line to, 319
- Mushroom millionaires, 307
- National banking system, 303
- National bureau should be established, 431
- National control, 424
- Nation inclined to follow beaten tracks, 425
- Nations should profit by experience, 367
- Napoleon Company, 108
- Navigation act, 98
- Nebraska maximum tariff, 346
- Net earnings increased in Iowa, 265
- in 1890 and 1891, 187
- Netherlands, canals, 31
- Net profit of passenger traffic in United Kingdom, 270
- Nevada, 324
- New England railroad construction, 288
- New Orleans Cotton Exchange case, 360
- Newton, 47
- New York canals, 41
- New York Central, gross earnings, 167
- stock watering, 165
- New York delegation, 224
- Nicaragua, 70
- Nile, canals, roads, people, 23
- Notice given when rates are changed, 388
- Number of employes per mile, 372
- of hours' work of employes, 372
- Office of railroad public, 368
- Officers of railroads should not be allowed to use proxies, 432
- should take oath, 432
- Officials not likely to resist temptation, 436
- Ohio canals, 42
- Oliver Cromwell, 98
- Operating expenses reduced, 375
- Pacific railroad, 81
- Pacific roads before boards of equalization, 186
- Papin, constructed steamboat, 47
- Parliament compelled British railways, 451
- Party organs, 221
- Pass abuse, ruling of commission, 362
- Pass, purposes for which given, 209
- should be discarded, 446
- Passenger rate-making principle wrong, 439
- Passenger rates not reduced, 375
- Passenger rates too high, 438
- Passengers carried by railroads in the United States, 292
- Passengers, English third-class, 270
- Passes, 207, 208
- Pauper tickets for the clergy should be abolished, 446
- Pausanias shown well-kept road, 19
- Pedigree of a proverb, 298
- Peik vs. Chicago, 213
- Pennsylvania canals, 41
- Pennsylvania Central R. R. Co., 171
- People prone to believe, 245
- People's parties called into existence, 404
- People will not tolerate, 397
- Perquisites abolished, 446
- Persian Empire, magnitude, 20
- Peru, 67
- roads, 35
- Phœnicians, 90
- Pipe line, 116, 119
- Plan capable of being improved, 433
- Policy of delay, 381
- Political campaigns in Iowa, 339
- Politicians as railroad employes, 229
- Pooling, 261, 398
- Pools, 85, 194, 195, 251, 297
- Poor's, H., opinion, 187
- Poor's estimate of watered stock, 186
- Porter, Horace, North American Review article, 290
- Porter, John, 104
- Portugal, 58
- Portuguese, 96
- Postal communication, royal road from Susa to Sardes, 21
- Postal service not carried on by state, 30
- Potential value of interstate law, 367
- Powderly, T. V., 449
- Prediction of Mr. Walker, 299
- Predictions of railroad men, 332
- Press abuse, 221
- Press, efforts of railroads to control, 271
- servile to railroads, 228
- Prima facie rates, 341
- Prize worth contending for, 380
- Procopius, statement of, concerning Via Appia, 27
- Problem would be solved if abuses, 297
- Providence, 136
- Psammitichus cuts canal, 33
- Ptolemaic kings built canals, 24
- Public at mercy of managers, 381
- not unreasonable, 450
- Public opinion dormant, 400
- Publicity advantageous, 402
- Purchasers of land made the donation, 321
- Question not settled until settled right, 377
- Railroad attorneys, 214
- Railroad-building after 1873, 246
- Railroad business not private, 403
- safe, 436
- changes in Iowa, 393
- company public agent, 388
- competition, 190, 338
- consolidation, 82
- construction, 287
- diplomate, 228
- first line, 77
- first steam engine, 47
- improved highway, 339
- like common road, 391
- literature, 231
- magazine literature, 273
- managers do not do things by halves, 223
- managers' opportunities to speculate, 399
- men always oppose reductions of rates, 283
- officials, 257
- papers, 340
- precursor of, 46
- president's letters, 229
- Railroads, abandoned, 79
- bonded for more than cost, 175
- capitalization of, 86
- but few that do not pay, 52
- cost to build, 186
- earnings of, 86
- in Asia, 59
- in Austria, 54
- in Belgium, 56
- in Denmark, 58
- in France, 54
- in Germany, 53
- in Granger States did not comply with law, 246
- in Hungary, 54
- in Italy, 57
- in politics, 205
- in Portugal, 58
- in Russia, 58
- in Switzerland, 56
- in Spain, 57
- in the Balkan Peninsula, 59
- in the Scandinavian Peninsula, 58
- in the United States, 76
- in Turkey, 60
- land grants to, 80
- partake of two natures, 392
- propitiate judiciary, 211
- public tax collectors, 396
- rebelled against Iowa law, 344
- Railroad stations, number of, 190
- Railroad tax, amount of, 393
- Railway acts, first in England, 127
- Railway Age, 288
- Railway benefits, 231
- Railways, highways, 13
- weakened their arguments, 237
- Railway system, growth of, 87
- length of in the world, 87
- Rate-making a legislative and not a judicial function, 332
- Rate-making difficult, 244
- not a judicial question, 378
- Rate of 1870, 248, 249
- Rates, fixing of by commission demanded, 430
- fundamental principles in making, 385
- in France, 293
- lower will prevail, 256
- lower, reason for, 374
- might be reduced, 417
- on Milwaukee road, 233
- reduced by zone tariff in Austria-Hungary, 283
- should be lower here than in Europe, 373
- should be referred to National and State boards, 379
- under Granger laws, 246
- under Wisconsin Granger laws, 236
- what are reasonable, 376
- Reagan, John H., bill of, 352
- Reform demanded, 295
- Reasonable rates, 376, 387
- fixing of, 361
- Rebates Standard Oil Company, 115
- Redfield, J. F., 312
- Reduced rates on Government business in France, 293
- increased business, 282
- Refineries closed, 116
- Reforms needed, 438
- Remedies, 389
- proposed by committee, 352
- Remedy proposed by Mr. Hudson of doubtful efficiency, 268
- 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
- uniform, 437
- 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
- policy, 102
- 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
- Roads built from proceeds of stocks and bonds, 373
- Roads built only when immediately profitable, 328
- 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, 221
- powerless, 382
- Sioux City, 325
- Smyth Judge, 229
- South America, 66
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 122
- Southern pool, 200
- Southern Railway and Steamship Association, 194
- South Sea Company, 303
- Spain, 57
- canals, 34
- Spain and Gaul, roads of, 27
- Special arrangements, 295
- Special-car aristocracy, 445
- Special contracts, 137
- Speed of railroads, 279
- Spelling, T. Carl, 317
- Speculative element should be removed, 433
- Speculators and gamblers, 434
- Spirit of Interstate Law, 369
- Standard Oil monopoly, 114
- State control encourages building, 130
- State, duty of, 391
- States to cease futile attempts, 299
- Steam engine, first account, 47
- Stephenson, 48
- Stevens, Mr., 107
- Stewart, A. T., & Co., 138
- Stickney, A. B., criticises President Mitchell's letter, 23
- Stock a bonus, 434
- Stock and bond inflation, 163
- Stockholders, 131
- Stock market controlled by few, 308
- Stocks, fluctuations of, 435
- Stockton, R. F., 103
- Stock watered 50 per cent., 307
- Stock-watering, 164, 165
- Stock wiped out, 326
- Stone, Governor, 324
- Subordinates have to suffer for superiors, 203
- Subsidies, 329
- to press, 271
- Sunday trains restricted, 451
- Superintendents responsible for uncivil subordinates, 447
- Supreme Court, 215, 289
- Switzerland, 56
- Taney, Justice, 216
- Tariff, a tax, 135
- prepared by sworn officials, 381
- Tariffs impeachable, 382
- official, should stand until proved unreasonable, 382
- Texas legislation, 346
- Text books, 312
- Thiers, M., 51
- Third-class passengers in Europe, 443
- Times, New York, 340
- Tipping, 447
- Traffic associations, 149, 300
- Trainmen should be allowed rest, 451
- Train mile earnings, 269
- Trains, number of, per mile, per annum, 281
- should connect, 451
- Transportation not a commodity, 368
- Trevithick, Richard, 48
- Tribune, Chicago, 244
- New York, 340
- Turkey, 60
- Turnpike, first American, 37
- Turnpikes in Great Britain, 32
- Turnpike tolls, 396
- Twelfth General Assembly, 323, 330
- Umpires, high-priced, 420
- Unanimous vote on Iowa law, 341
- Union Pacific, 175
- United States Bank, 303, 366
- Unscrupulous men attracted, 390
- Value of land grants, 329
- Vanderbilt, 82, 452
- Vedas, testimony of, 18
- Venetian council, 253
- Venezuela, 66
- Venice, 93
- Via Appia and other roads, 26
- Violations of law encouraged by courts, 430
- Wabash Railroad, 212
- Walker, A. F., 294, 295, 311
- Wall Street, defense of, 340
- War, 399
- War rule, 331
- Washington among the first to advocate internal improvements, 39
- Water courses as levelers, 453
- Watering stock, Mr. Jeans on, 270
- methods of, 174
- Water transportation, 145
- Watered stocks, 172
- Hadley on, 247
- Watt and Stephenson's inventions, 126
- Watt, James, 47
- Weak roads helped, 344
- Western candidates, 224
- Water classification, 343
- West Indies, 71
- Western politician outwitted, 225
- White House, the, 215
- Whitney, Asa, 81
- Whitney's cotton gin, 231
- Why Western people do not invest in railroad stocks, 308
- Wells, David A., 374
- Windom committee, 351
- Wisconsin Granger laws, 331
- Witnesses recusant, 134
- Wrecking roads, 305
- Wrought-iron rails patented, 47
- World, New York, 340
- Zone tariff, 409
- ridiculed, 441