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Rail pooling debate and Iowa law on railroad rates
The speaker argues against pooling by railroads, cites 1890s law history, and defends Iowa’s elected railroad commissioners. He alleges manipulation by Standard Oil, Armour, and Rockefeller allies, rebuts claims pooling would need interstate commission approval, and defends state control as preventing rate abuse.
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Isohberger Hall
United States Senate
Standard Oil Company
Sugar Trust
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Poor’s
Phil. D. Armour
Beef and
Wm. Rockefeller
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Pacific Railroad
Henry M. Flagler
Wm. F. Havemeyer
Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad
House
Havemeyer
Rockefeller
Iowa State Register
Iowa
Friends of the Bill
Interstate Commerce Commission
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Congress
J. G. Cannon
Commission
Friends of the
Inter-State Commission
England
Railroad Commission of
America
United States
Cannon
Europe
Illinois
Speaker
53Rd Congress
Tennessee
J. A. T. Hull
Gear
Hepburn
Hayes
Cousins
Dolliver
Hager
Henderson
Perkins
Updegraff
Mr. Cooper
Florida
Representative Hall
Inter-State Ecommerce Commission
Hohberger’s
Interstate Commerce Commerates
Grover Cleveland
Drexel, Morgan & Co
United States of America
East
Hadley
Smith
Georgia
Chicago
21St General Assembly
State of
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Iown
Minneapolis
Great Lakes
Reagan
Railway Review
Austin
Texas
Des Moines
John H. Reagan
Ilinois
Lacey
Breckenridge
Inter-State Commercce Committee
Congressional
Hull