Excerpt from Report of the Industrial Commission on Transportation, Vol. 4: Including Review of Evidence, Topical Digest of Evidence, and Testimony So Far as Taken May 1, 1900 The Industrial Commission has taken the testimony of many witnesses on the subject Of transportation, especially railway transportation. These witnesses include representatives of all the important organizations of railway employees, representatives of many organizations of shippers and commercial bodies, as well as other Shippers, ofiicers of railways and of railway associations, members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Special students of transportation ques tions - college professors and others. Several witnesses have also testified as to lake, canal, and ocean transportation. While detailed and specific statements as to the conditions of labor and traffic have not usually been sought, many gen eral statements as to these conditions have been obtained, and although there is, of course, not a little difference of opinion, certain conclusions as to facts emerge with fair clearness from the testimony. Naturally, there is even greater differ ence of judgment as to needed legislation; but here again it is possible to gather some fair conclusions concerning the preponderance of opinion among those most interested, as to some of the important problems now before the people. The Commission has not, however, completed its investigation of transportation. It is expected that additional testimony will be taken as to all phases of the sub ject, but more especially as to certain topics which have been investigated least fully, such as ticket brokerage, capitalization of railways, consolidation of rail ways, state railway commissions, taxation, conditions of water transportation, etc. The wide-reaching social and economic influence of the means of transportation is indicated by the fact that questions relating to them have been discussed to a greater or less extent by the witnesses in connection with almost all the other investigations Of the Commission - notably those on agriculture, trusts and industrial combinations, and capital and labor. The evidence in these investiga tions Should be consulted in connection with the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.