Three Assistant Inspectors for each group.

Several groups might require four inspectors of each class, and as many could get along with two.

Enough money could be deducted from the Interstate Commerce Commission appropriation to pay these officials liberally, so as to secure competent service, without crippling the legitimate work of the Commission.

Respectfully submitted,

SLASON THOMPSON.


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Abuses, old, reformed,[214]
Accidents, decrease in 1909,[371]
Accidents, effect of freight traffic on,[378]
Accidents, fatalities in, since 1888,[375]
Accidents on British railways,[379]
Accidents on European railways,[382]
Accidents, overwork seldom cause of,[381]
Accidents, train, causes of,[379]
Acworth, W. M., on relations of railroads to the state,[220]
Acworth, W. M., testimony before Senate committee,[283]
Additional lines, little room for,[47]
Advances in railway rates, concerning,[261]
African Cape government railroads,[231]
Agricultural implements, freight rates on,[108]
Agricultural products and freight rates,[183]
Air brakes, introduction of,[119]
Allegheny Mountains, elevations,[31]
American railways by states, 1835 to 1909,[391]
Area, number of miles to, in 1869,[134]
Australian railways under government ownership,[221], [232]
Automatic couplers,[120]
Automatic mechanical stop,[320]
Automatic signaling,[124]
Bacon, Lord, on the necessity of easy transportation,[5]
Bananas, relation of freight rate to price,[97]
Beaulieu, Leroy, on American railways,[79]
Belgian railroads owned by the state,[220]
Bills, multitude of, affecting railways,[68]
Block signaling, evolution of,[123]
Block signals, miles protected by, 1908, 1909,[320]
Brewer, Judge, on the right to change rates,[266]
British railway commission discussed,[248]
British railways, slow growth of,[243]
British railways, statistics of,[389]
Brown, W. C., on the freight rate situation,[107]
Business suit, freight rates on a,[110]
Butter, freight rates on,[111]
Butter, price of, little affected by freight charge,[91]