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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... legislation with the abuses which have char- acterized the exercises of their monopoly power . It has been said this legislation was sought in hostility to the rail- road companies . I wish to testify for myself , Mr. Speaker , and I ...
... legislation with the abuses which have char- acterized the exercises of their monopoly power . It has been said this legislation was sought in hostility to the rail- road companies . I wish to testify for myself , Mr. Speaker , and I ...
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... legislation and protect the citizen against the rapacity and unfairness of the corporation . The committee's bill requires a railroad commission to be appointed under it ; and by its sixteenth section it directs said commission to in ...
... legislation and protect the citizen against the rapacity and unfairness of the corporation . The committee's bill requires a railroad commission to be appointed under it ; and by its sixteenth section it directs said commission to in ...
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... legislation aiming to govern the operations of trade and com- merce . Ă–ver legislation respecting details , attempts to regulate every particular act by special statute , instead of relying upon an en- forcement of those general ...
... legislation aiming to govern the operations of trade and com- merce . Ă–ver legislation respecting details , attempts to regulate every particular act by special statute , instead of relying upon an en- forcement of those general ...
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... legislation . They are given ample powers to examine wit- nesses , books , and papers in order to decide upon the merits of the com- plaints made to them . They may issue orders to offenders to desist from violating the provisions of ...
... legislation . They are given ample powers to examine wit- nesses , books , and papers in order to decide upon the merits of the com- plaints made to them . They may issue orders to offenders to desist from violating the provisions of ...
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... legislative and artificial control . It is certainly a good rule in legislation to let alone as much as pos- sible , not to contend against but to co - operate with natural laws - espe- cially the laws of competition - and to leave them ...
... legislative and artificial control . It is certainly a good rule in legislation to let alone as much as pos- sible , not to contend against but to co - operate with natural laws - espe- cially the laws of competition - and to leave them ...
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