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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... cost less per mile for construction , even with the tariff on railroad iron and steel rails , than those of any of the great European countries ; about one - fourth of those of England , and one- third of those of France . A barrel of ...
... cost less per mile for construction , even with the tariff on railroad iron and steel rails , than those of any of the great European countries ; about one - fourth of those of England , and one- third of those of France . A barrel of ...
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... cost of their provisions . This ques- tion becomes by no means a simple one when this broader view of the consequences to the whole country are considered . If we were to have no interstate commission there would be more reason for this ...
... cost of their provisions . This ques- tion becomes by no means a simple one when this broader view of the consequences to the whole country are considered . If we were to have no interstate commission there would be more reason for this ...
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... cost of transportation of that bushel of wheat from New York to Liverpool . The grain merchant in the city of New York has no power absolutely to fix the price of a bushel of wheat in that city . Hemust take into consideration the price ...
... cost of transportation of that bushel of wheat from New York to Liverpool . The grain merchant in the city of New York has no power absolutely to fix the price of a bushel of wheat in that city . Hemust take into consideration the price ...
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... cost for its construction $ 100,000 a mile , but which could now be built for $ 25,000 a mile , and that road is worth to - day no more than $ 25,000 , because it can be duplicated with this expenditure . It is entitled to charge a fair ...
... cost for its construction $ 100,000 a mile , but which could now be built for $ 25,000 a mile , and that road is worth to - day no more than $ 25,000 , because it can be duplicated with this expenditure . It is entitled to charge a fair ...
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... cost of the service and the volume of business which one shipper could bring as against another were both to be considered in determining whether a rate was reasonable or not . ( In re Ransome and Another es . The Eastern Counties ...
... cost of the service and the volume of business which one shipper could bring as against another were both to be considered in determining whether a rate was reasonable or not . ( In re Ransome and Another es . The Eastern Counties ...
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