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SALT LAKE ROUTE LOS ANOELES A SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY Office of First Vice-President H. V. PLATT, First Vict-Prtsidtnt Salt Lake City, Utah March 6th, 1917. My dear Mr. Comstock: Wish you would please drop me a line stating just what matters should "be submitted to Judge Lovett and Senator Clark. Hotice paragraph 9 of memorandum for the guidance of Special Committee, dated April 28th, 1905, signed jointly by W. A. Clark and 1. H. Harriman, provides *9. The Special Committee to keep the President and the Executive Committee advised of it3 doings in general, and to report all actions of importance, whether such reports are called for or not, and to inform the President and Executive Committee in advance ^whenever possible of all contemplated action of major importance, and particularly of all requisitions for expenditure for capital account." Senator Clark’3 joint letter December 16th, 1914, to the Special Committee reads in part as follows: "I wrote you recently that the Executive Committee would be set aside and that Mr. Lovett and myself would pass upon matters as they come up and have our decisions
