The Federal Reporter. Volume 4: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. October-December, 1880. Page: 486
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FEDERAL REPORT.
through business, but to make large and profitable returns to
the stockholders. But, under the present system of consoli-
dations of innumerable small companies into grand through
lines, the necessity no longer exists, and for the aforesaid rea-
sons the railway companies are much better able to do the
express business themselves than any express company could,
and the public will be vastly benefited thereby. The exclu-
sive contracts which were originally granted to the different
express companies, and which they have heretofore enjoyed,
were granted merely for the reason that no two or more could
have been allowed to come on one road, because the railways
would not have been able to give them both the same facili-
ties in space and in attendance, and it would be a matter of
impossibility for any railway company to work its express
business by more than one company to any advantage to the
railway company, the express company, or to the public.
More than one express company would increase the expense
to the railway company in such a material way that very dif-
ferent terms would have to be made and compensation asked
than their former exclusive contracts specified, as in most
eases an additional car would have to be hauled for each com-
pany on the fast passenger trains, which carry the United
States mail, and which, with the present condensed fast sched-
ules and time cars, it would not be possible to do, except by
providing specially-constructed machinery for the purpose, as
we would, with the present facilities we have, delay the mails
and cause inconvenience to the passengers and the public at
large; when, in point of fact, a great many of the large
railway companies of this country have already dispensed
with fast freight lines and express companies on their differ-
ent systems, and are now doing their own express business
to the best satisfaction of themselves and the public. The
railway companies are able to give as satisfactory attention
to the collection, transmission, and delivery of express matter
as the express companies can possibly give. The Louisville
& Nashville Railroad Company is now doing its own express
business, and meeting all the demands of the public for ex-
press accommodations."
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Boyle, Peyton. The Federal Reporter. Volume 4: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. October-December, 1880., legislative document, 1881; Saint Paul, Minnesota. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc36333/m1/500/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.