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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... present United States Commissioner of Railroads says on that subject : The universal use and absolute dependence of interstate commerce upon rail- roads give constant rise to new questions under new conditions , which only ex- perience ...
... present United States Commissioner of Railroads says on that subject : The universal use and absolute dependence of interstate commerce upon rail- roads give constant rise to new questions under new conditions , which only ex- perience ...
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... present marvelously cheap transportation of its products and the people of the East must pay the increased freight - cost of their provisions . This ques- tion becomes by no means a simple one when this broader view of the consequences ...
... present marvelously cheap transportation of its products and the people of the East must pay the increased freight - cost of their provisions . This ques- tion becomes by no means a simple one when this broader view of the consequences ...
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... present . The very fact that this House to - day under a special order is considering this very bill is of itself evidence that these wrongs have existed in the past and do exist in the present . There must be some power behind this ...
... present . The very fact that this House to - day under a special order is considering this very bill is of itself evidence that these wrongs have existed in the past and do exist in the present . There must be some power behind this ...
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... present day is the fact that the transportation of a very large proportion of the cotton grown in the Southern States is now controlled and directed by great railroad systems and pooling arrangements . All the railroads engaged in the ...
... present day is the fact that the transportation of a very large proportion of the cotton grown in the Southern States is now controlled and directed by great railroad systems and pooling arrangements . All the railroads engaged in the ...
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... present consideration in reference to printing a document . The Clerk read as follows : Resolved , That the expert testimony taken by the Committee on Commerce and the arguments before that committee on the question of interstate com ...
... present consideration in reference to printing a document . The Clerk read as follows : Resolved , That the expert testimony taken by the Committee on Commerce and the arguments before that committee on the question of interstate com ...
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