Richard Olney - a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president

The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.

- Richard Olney - a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president