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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Page 37
Sometimes the same authority agrees upon and fixes the rates , and sometimes it
does not — the same authority which apportions or divides the traffic . The
maintenance of rates is in no sense per se part of the pooling contract , and it is
not so ...
Sometimes the same authority agrees upon and fixes the rates , and sometimes it
does not — the same authority which apportions or divides the traffic . The
maintenance of rates is in no sense per se part of the pooling contract , and it is
not so ...
Page 139
It is very doubtful , at least , whether such an unrestricted grant of authority to
Congress to regulate interstate commerce would have been made had the
framers of the Constitation believed that it would be ultimately carried on by
artificial ...
It is very doubtful , at least , whether such an unrestricted grant of authority to
Congress to regulate interstate commerce would have been made had the
framers of the Constitation believed that it would be ultimately carried on by
artificial ...
Page 283
In the next place , the chairman of the railroad commissioners , familiar with her
whole railroad policy and her great railroad authority , declares that they are
totally different , and that one never would have been adopted if those words had
not ...
In the next place , the chairman of the railroad commissioners , familiar with her
whole railroad policy and her great railroad authority , declares that they are
totally different , and that one never would have been adopted if those words had
not ...
Page 293
In almost every State of the Union upon the payment of a dollar or two a franchise
is granted to be a corporation , clothed with the power to construct and operate a
railway , and with the great power of eminent domain , and with authority to ...
In almost every State of the Union upon the payment of a dollar or two a franchise
is granted to be a corporation , clothed with the power to construct and operate a
railway , and with the great power of eminent domain , and with authority to ...
Page 556
In that State much the larger portion is interstate , and over this our State
commission has no authority whatever . It is true there was quite recently a rip ple
of assinipity that developed itself in a pretension that the State authorities might
control ...
In that State much the larger portion is interstate , and over this our State
commission has no authority whatever . It is true there was quite recently a rip ple
of assinipity that developed itself in a pretension that the State authorities might
control ...
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Page 607 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this act, 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...
Page 140 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this 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 607 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 454 - ... that upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act.
Page 608 - ... for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance ; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier, within the terms of this act, to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance: Provided, however, That upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of tula act, such common carrier may.
Page 5 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 355 - If such carrier shall not satisfy the complaint within the time specified, or there shall appear to be any reasonable ground for investigating said complaint, it shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.
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| Title | 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 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, United States. Congress |
| Author | United States. Congress |
| Editor | Uriah Hunt Painter |
| Published | 1884 |
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