[Transcriber's Note: Table of Contents was added.] MINORITY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS IN RELATION TO THE HOOSAC TUNNEL AND THE RAILROADS LEADING THERETO, WITH A BILL TO INCORPORATE THE STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE HOOSAC TUNNEL RAILROAD; ALSO THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. E. P. CARPENTER, IN THE Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, IN SUPPORT OF THE SAME. BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, NO. 19 PROVINCE STREET. 1873. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE MINORITY REPORT 3 THE BILL 12 SPEECH 24 EFFORTS TO REDUCE THE TRANSPORTATION TAX. 29 THE EFFECT IN OUR EXISTING SYSTEM. 31 THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGES OF BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 34 THE EFFECT ON THE STATE OF MAKING BOSTON AN EXPORTING CITY. 36 THE HOOSAC TUNNEL. 37 POSITION OF THE COMMITTEE. 39 THE BILL OF THE MAJORITY. 40 REGULATION BY SPECIAL LEGISLATION. 46 CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL. 48 THE PURPOSES OF THE MINORITY. 50 THE MINORITY BILL. 51 THE EFFECT OF STATE CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL LINE. 53 THE POPULAR FEELING IN FAVOR OF STATE CONTROL. 54 SAFETY OF THE EXPERIMENT. 55 THE ALLEGED DANGER OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION. 58 STATE PENSIONERS. 63 THE BENEFITS OF THE PROPOSED PLAN. 64 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 23, 1873. The undersigned, members of the Committee on Railways, to whom was referred "An Act to provide for the Consolidation of the Hoosac Tunnel line of Railroads from Boston to Troy," and the petition of the Boston and Lowell Railroad Company for amendment of the charter of the Great Northern Railroad, and many petitions and remonstrances relative to the disposal of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, respectfully submit a MINORITY REPORT: