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Dickinson Speer Bill Hearing on Railroad Rates
A Monday hearing before Missouri senate and house railroad committees heard railroad and shipper reps from Missouri Pacific Wabash Burlington M E T and others. Speer urged a bill to curb short haul rate discrimination and protect interurban towns. Phelps and others challenged procedural fairness and the bill’s practicality citing existing rates. Experts testified rates must evolve with interstate traffic and argued the bill would slash revenue. debate continued into Tuesday with further testimony and formal statements by McGrew Cochran and others.
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House
Missouri Pacific
W. A.phelpa
A. G Cochran
Lincoln
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Bird
Mo P and
Wabash
Burlington
O. M. Spencer
Geo. A Crosby
W. C. Maxwell
F. A. Leland
Speer
Ube
Wo. H. Phelps
Missouri
Phelps
Spencer
Cochran
J. O. McGrew
Lexington
Supreme Court
Harlan
United States
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Marswall
McGrew
Commissionera
Missouri Pacifico Railroad
Be Railroad
Supreme Court of
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Illinois Central
Illinois
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