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we had a thousand of these reports to pass up to the commission, 

 it is worth all the witnesses we could put on the stand, who often 

 unintentionally misquote themselves. It is not only the car record, 

 but the train record that you have in those reports, and I want 

 to urge upon all the members to be sure to make out these train 

 records. 



Mr. Doran: I have been through the mill a little on this speed 

 limit. In a short time the legislature is going to be in session, 

 and I believe it will be possible to get a bill passed covering this 

 matter. The suggestion of Mr. Brockway is timely, that you should 

 have recent records of trains — not something three or four years 

 old, but the actual record of recent trains from starting-point to 

 destination. We had no trouble in getting our bill passed by the 

 House of Representatives with but five dissenting votes, and three 

 of those persons thought it necessary to explain their votes. It 

 got into the committee on Railroads and Commerce in the senate, 

 .and it has never gotten out yet. I hope we will have a better com- 

 mittee this year. I think with a little united effort we will have no 

 difficulty in getting the speed limit fixed. The same bill that we 

 asked for here is the law in Nebraska. It has gone to the supreme 

 court of Nebraska and been upheld. "We lose more on this speed 

 service than on freight. 



Mr. Eisle: Often when we ship stock to Chicago we will get 

 a letter back from our commission man stating that the train ar- 

 rived late, and giving the hour and the minute that stock arrived 

 at the chutes. If you will just pin that letter to your own record, 

 it will make a complete record of that train. You can all get that 

 from your commission firm by simply asking for it, and generally 

 it will be sent without your asking for it; and the railroad com- 

 pany will never dispute it. 



President Sykes: How is your service on the Rock Island? 



Mr. Eisle: It is pretty good on Sunday, but they laugh at us 

 if we ship any other day in the week, and the minister scolds us 

 if we ship on that day. My wife says she is ashamed to go to 

 church when I am loading stock. Last winter our service was very 

 bad for a long while, and I don't know how it will be this winter, 

 when they get a little frost on the tracks. 



Mr. Ryan: I am glad to hear from Mr. Doran that some tri- 

 bunal in the land has decided in favor of the speed limit for a 

 stock train. I know that at the time Mr. Doran 's bill was pending 

 before the railroad committee of the house, every lawyer the rail- 

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