Memorial, presented by the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago to the Congress of the United States : deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River at St. Louis (1904)
Chicago Sanitary District. Board of Trustees · (Chicago) · leaf 41
r, iron and merchandise of all kinds would be beyond the power of dic-tation by transportation monopolies, because countless salutary irresistible re-straints would spring into life. It would be a section of an inter-state commercelaw which could never be repealed, and the aiithority of which could… … Memorial to the Congress of the United States. 37 Chicago and of New Orleans, and should also indicate the business of St. Louis,Peoria and the other interior cities upon the route. Unfortunately such figuresare very difficult, indeed, to secure with accuracy, and the United States…
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