The railroad companies made no further fight against the action of the Railroad Commissioners but acquiesced therein, and found the earnings of their several roads "compensatory." Concurrent with this proceeding on the part of the Northwestern Railroad Company and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and Milwaukee & St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern applied to and obtained from Judge Fairall, of Iowa City, district judge of Johnson county, an injunction against the Railroad Commissioners to the same effect as that issued by Justice Brewer. I appeared with Mr. Lain before the district court and argued a motion to dissolve this injunction before Judge Fairall, which was refused, and from his order refusing to dissolve the injunction we at once took an appeal to the supreme court of Iowa. This appeal was heard and submitted to the supreme court by both printed and oral argument, but after the action of Justice Brewer upon the supplemental bill in the federal court, the attorneys for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern dismissed their suit in the district court of Johnson county, and then applied to the supreme court for an order dismissing the appeal in that court. We resisted this application, but the court held that as the original suit was dismissed the injunction itself necessarily was dissolved, and as the appeal was only from an interlocutory order, the court had no occasion to deliver an opinion upon the merits of the controversy. The opinion of the court permitting these parties to dismiss their suit in this manner will be found in 76th Iowa, 278. Mr. A. B. Cummins, since Governor of the state of Iowa, has lately been posing as the original friend of the people in this fight against railroad injustice. It would be well to state here that I do not know when he became a convert to the importance of regulating the action of railroads in justice to the people, but as the foregoing was the first great contest we had in Iowa on this subject, I give here a speech delivered by that gentleman as late as December 22, 1891, at a banquet of the Railroad Employees' Club, as follows: