Reports and testimony before legislative committees on the subject of railroad transportation / by Albert Fink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fink, Albert, 1827-1897.

Series:

Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914.

The Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interstate commerce--United States.

Interstate commerce.

Railroads and state--United States.

Railroads and state.

Railroads--Freight--Rates--United States.

Railroads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Railroad transportation

Place of Publication:

[New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1890?]

Contents:

A. Cost of railroad transportation, railroad accounts, and governmental regulations of railroad tariffs (extract from annual report of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., for the year ending June 30, 1874; 1882 reprint)

B. Argument before the Committee of Commerce of the Senate ... on the Regan Bill, for the regulation of inter-state commerce (1879)

C. The railroad problem and its solution (before the Committee on Commerce ..., Jan. 14-16, 1880; 1882 printing)

D. Interstate commerce: Argument ... before the Committee on Commerce ... (1882)

E. United States Committee on Labor and Education, Testimony of Albert Fink, New York, Sept. 17, 1883

F. Interstate commerce: Argument before the Committee on Commerce ... (1884)

G. Regulation of interstate commerce by Congress: Testimony of Albert Fink before the Select Committee on Interstate Commerce ... (1885)

H. Report upon the adjustment of railroad transportation rates to the seaboard (1882).

Notes:

Reproduction from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.

Dates of pamphlet imprints: 1879-1885; except for the first, A (New York, Evening Post Job Printing Office), and E (without imprint, from a govt. document), the pts. have imprint of either: New York, Russell Bros., printers (B, C, H), or Washington, G.P.O. (D, F, G).

A collection of 8 pamphlets by Albert Fink issued bound together with a general t.p. and a table of contents leaf; the pts. are lettered A-H.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Learning, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

OCLC:

797288748

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.