Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — The Inter-State Commerce Bill. [ARTICLE]

The Inter-State Commerce Bill.

Naw York Hera'd. One immediate result the consolidation is likely to have; It will help Mr. Reagan to pass through congress at this session the inter-state commerce bill. It will strengthen the vote for the bill in the house and secure it some influential friends in the senate, who have hitherto held aloof from it. There is a sudden feebng in the air that this regulation of corporation may very likely become at once a great anil leading public • question, and that the popular side will be that of very decided interference and regulation in such manner as to protect the public rigorously against the constant selfish schemes of a few capitalists, who play with public interest for the mere object of doubling and redoubling their millions.