Interstate Commerce: Debate in Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session [-Fiftieth Congress], on the Bill (H.R. 5461) to Establish a Board of Commissioners of Interstate Commerce and to Regulate Such Commerce &c., &c |
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... Government directors of any of said rail- roads , in regard to the tariffs of fares aud freight , or the accounts of ... governments or for charitable purposes , or to or from public fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat . SEC ...
... Government directors of any of said rail- roads , in regard to the tariffs of fares aud freight , or the accounts of ... governments or for charitable purposes , or to or from public fairs and expositions for exhibition thereat . SEC ...
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... Government . I admit , Mr. Speaker , that this argument would be potential with me if I believed it had any sub- stantial basis . I have seen with no little alarm the bold disregard of old - time rules of interpretation of the ...
... Government . I admit , Mr. Speaker , that this argument would be potential with me if I believed it had any sub- stantial basis . I have seen with no little alarm the bold disregard of old - time rules of interpretation of the ...
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... Government should assume the regulation of interstate traffic on our railways . The railroads of the country have grown to such proportions that States are admittedly no longer adequate to the needed regulation ; and what ought to be ...
... Government should assume the regulation of interstate traffic on our railways . The railroads of the country have grown to such proportions that States are admittedly no longer adequate to the needed regulation ; and what ought to be ...
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... governments have attempted to control by legislation the details of railroad management and have abandoned the effort in obedi- ence to the very interests they sought to promote . The government of a free and civilized people must not ...
... governments have attempted to control by legislation the details of railroad management and have abandoned the effort in obedi- ence to the very interests they sought to promote . The government of a free and civilized people must not ...
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... Government may lawfully interfere in the premises , and what , if any , supervision or control it ought to exercise , is one which merits your careful consideration . While we cannot fail to recognize the importance of the vast railway ...
... Government may lawfully interfere in the premises , and what , if any , supervision or control it ought to exercise , is one which merits your careful consideration . While we cannot fail to recognize the importance of the vast railway ...
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