Q. Did you talk with the men on different roads—did you converse with men on different roads?
A. Yes; on several different roads.
Q. What roads?
A. There were some on the Pennsylvania railroad; some on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne road; some on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh run, and also some men on the Atlantic and Great Western road.
Q. Did you ever converse with any of the employés on the Baltimore and Ohio road?
A. No, sir; I had no acquaintances amongst these men. That is a road I travel on very little. Didn't go out of my way to hunt up any information; it all came to me incidentally.
Q. Were all these roads reducing the wages of their employés?
A. It was so reported to me—it was so talked among the men.
Q. How was it throughout the country? Did you know, of your own knowledge, that the leading railroads throughout the whole country were reducing the wages of the employés?
A. Speaking of it in a general way, I have no authority, except newspaper account, that wages were being very generally reduced.