In re Pacific Railway Commission
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This is an application of the Pacific Railway Commission, created under the act of congress of March B, 1887, “Authorizing an investigation of the books, accounts, and methods of railroads which have received aid from the United States, and for other purposes,” for a.n order requiring a witness before it to answer certain interrogatories propounded to him.
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This is an application of the Pacific Railway Commission, created under the act of congress of March B, 1887, “Authorizing an investigation of the books, accounts, and methods of railroads which have received aid from the United States, and for other purposes,” for a.n order requiring a witness before it to answer certain interrogatories propounded to him. That act authorizes the president to appoint three commissioners to examine the books, papers, and methods of all railroad companies which have received aid in bonds from the government, and in terms invests them with power to make a…
1Opinion of the CourtField, Circuit Justice
The motion for a peremptory order upon the witness to answer the interrogatories propounded by the railway commission has been fully argued; and every thing which could be said in its favor has been ably presented by the United States attorney, either in oral or printed arguments. In resisting the motion, counsel of the respondent have not confined themselves to a discussion of the propriety and necessity of the interrogatories, and the sufficiency of the answers given by him; but they have assailed the validity of the act creating the commission, so far as it authorizes an examination into…
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