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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... fix the rates at all other shipping points and would substantially protect the people at the interior and less impor- tant points . The provisions of this section recognize these practical difficulties in the way of securing the ...
... fix the rates at all other shipping points and would substantially protect the people at the interior and less impor- tant points . The provisions of this section recognize these practical difficulties in the way of securing the ...
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... fixed habi- tation , where the wood , either hewn or crude , could be easily floated to its destination . The first great commercial people , the Phoenicians , built no roads , but carried letters to and impressed their civilization on ...
... fixed habi- tation , where the wood , either hewn or crude , could be easily floated to its destination . The first great commercial people , the Phoenicians , built no roads , but carried letters to and impressed their civilization on ...
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... fixed and stable ; but an early absorption by the government under provisions in the charters of the private lines is predicted , which would indicate a dissatisfaction on the part of private capitalists . In France the main trunk lines ...
... fixed and stable ; but an early absorption by the government under provisions in the charters of the private lines is predicted , which would indicate a dissatisfaction on the part of private capitalists . In France the main trunk lines ...
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... fixed in their grasp upon continued power , commercial , social , and political , as the Hapsborgs , the Hohenzollerns , or the Guelphs . These reigning houses were born of force . They were the triumph of the strong over the weak ...
... fixed in their grasp upon continued power , commercial , social , and political , as the Hapsborgs , the Hohenzollerns , or the Guelphs . These reigning houses were born of force . They were the triumph of the strong over the weak ...
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... fix it for the country and towns through which they pass . Mr. President , we will now go back over the illustration to point out the practical features of the discriminations to which shippers so much object and so earnestly demand ...
... fix it for the country and towns through which they pass . Mr. President , we will now go back over the illustration to point out the practical features of the discriminations to which shippers so much object and so earnestly demand ...
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Page 223 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 139 - ... than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service In the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which Is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 87 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 218 - Court of equity, and without the formal pleadings and proceedings applicable to ordinary suits in equity, but in such manner as to do justice in the premises; and to this end such Court shall have power, if it think fit, to direct and prosecute, in" such mode and by such persons as it may appoint, all such inquiries as the Court may think needful to enable it to form a just judgment in the matter of such petition...
Page 561 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Page 69 - ... the carriage of freights from being and being treated as one continuous carriage from the place of shipment to the place of destination, unless such break, stoppage, or interruption was made in good faith for some necessary purpose, and without any intent to avoid or unnecessarily interrupt such continuous carriage or to evade any of the provisions of this act.
Page 408 - The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States.
Page 561 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 218 - ... shall happen, alleging such violation or disobedience as the case may be; and the said Court shall have power to hear and determine the matter, on such short notice to the common carrier complained of as the Court shall deem reasonable; and such notice may be served on such common carrier, his or its officers, agents, or servants...
Page 556 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...