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Excerpt from Remarks of C. P. Huntington: Before the Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate, Saturday, November 17, 1877
My understanding was, that these words you have been discussing. Were inserted in the fear that the companies might fail to complete the roads. And out of a spirit of abundant caution this power of alteration was reserved in case it was necessary to put. The work into other hands for completion but it was well understood (and the debates will bear me out) that there was to be no forfeiture and no change to our detriment, so long as we were in good faith carrying out our part of the work.
As I said, the proper question for our consideration is, not so much whether Congress may, at its pleasure.
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