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cculd net only have the word of the carrier as to the rate, hut could verify it hy the schedules published and exhibited in every station. Hcwever, as Mr. Bowers has very properly remarked, it is Susceptible cf another construction, and when we look at the difficulties that would be brought about by the construction that first occurred to me, I think p os-si bly we might rely upon the courts saying that Congress never intended to do anything that would be so obstructive to the business of common carriers and the public as that would be, and they might hold to such a view as has been expressed here. My own view has been as above expressed, and I am still of that opinion. MR. DUMs I move as the sense cf the meeting that where a through rate in the absence of a joint convention is made by shrinking the local of the initial carrier and paying the full local of the connecting carrier, that the aggregate rate must be published by the carrier making the rate. Seconded and unanimously carried. MRtt LATHROP: 1 want to make this motion, that it is the sense of this meeting that we should say to our traffic men, and also to the solicitors of other lines not represented here to-day, that this view should be adopted by the roads generally without referring in the first instance for advice to the commission. Seconded and unanimously carried. MR. BOWERS: I move that the Chairman be authorized to communicate to counsel for any railroad who requests it, the decisions that we may have reached. Seconded and unanimously carried. MR BOWERS: 3 move that it is the sense of this committee that application should be made to the Interstate Commerce Commission for an order permitting the posting of all tariffs in stations inside of the ticket office or agent’s room, instead of their being posted in the outer station which is accessible to the public at large, and the posting in the outer station of a notice that the tariffs are in the agent’s office and can be seen on application. Seconded and unanimously carried. MR. OSBORHE: I move that it is the sense of this meet-