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asserted that a resolution of the National Grange in 1874 caused 

 the appointment of the Windom Committee on Transportation 

 in 1872; in New York, Grangers boast of the Hepburn Com- 

 mission of 1879, and claim to have defeated a railroad man, 

 C. M. Depew, for the Senate in 1881. And doubtless the Inter- 

 state Commerce Bill will be hailed as one more achievement. 



