Excerpt from Return of the Railroads to Private Ownership, Vol. 5: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 4378, August 20-27, 1919; Plumb Plan Testimony The committee met at 10 o'clock a. M., Hon. John J. Esch (chair man) presiding. The chairman. To-day has been assi ed for the hearin of those who are proponents of the so-called P umb plan. In W at order are the 1proponents to be heard, Mr. Plumb? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.