Proceedings of the Federal Electric Railways Commission, Vol. 3 of 3 PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781330605714
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Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Federal Electric Railways Commission, Vol. 3 of 3: Held in Washington, During the Months of July, August, September, and October, 1919; Together With Final Report of the Commission to the President Present: Parties as before. The Chairman. Commissioner Eastman, will you take the chair, please? Statement of Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman. Mr. Eastman. Shall I proceed now, Mr. Chairman? The Chairman. Yes. Mr. Eastman. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the commission, I am very glad to respond to the invitation to appear before this commission, although I should not have sought the opportunity myself, and I am glad to appear because I realize how difficult is the question you have to deal with, and if I can be of any help in aiding you to solve that question I want to do it. My chief fear is that I shall not be of much help, because, although I have spent a good deal of time in the study and consideration of this street-railway question, I never felt satisfied that I had really arrived at any satisfactory solution of it. I think I ought to state before I begin that I am here solely as an individual and not as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. I have not talked the matter over with my colleagues at all; they know nothing whatever of what I am going to say, and they are not in any way responsible for the views I am going to express. The blame is wholly my own. Whatever qualifications I possess to discuss this question come from experience as a member of the Public Service Commission of Massachusetts. I was on that commission from the fall of 1914 until the end of last year, and during that time we dealt almost exclusively with the street-railway problem. I am somewhat handicapped in speaking to you this morning because of the fact that my experience is confined almost exclusively to Massachusetts and you are considering the entire country. I have some fragmentary knowledge of the situation in other parts of the country. 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.