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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... interests concerned the chairman of the committee should assent to having the bill set down for a day certain after the recess . As the Senator from Massachusetts has very well sug- gested there are a great many important interests to ...
... interests concerned the chairman of the committee should assent to having the bill set down for a day certain after the recess . As the Senator from Massachusetts has very well sug- gested there are a great many important interests to ...
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... interest from the business interests of the country than the bill which it is proposed to consider at the time that may , be fixed . I appeal again to the chairman to fix a day , and make it at least a week after the reassembling of ...
... interest from the business interests of the country than the bill which it is proposed to consider at the time that may , be fixed . I appeal again to the chairman to fix a day , and make it at least a week after the reassembling of ...
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... interests , of sections , localities , business , of the forceful doctrine of equality on which our system of government is founded . It was a cumulative declaration that that doctrine is not confined in its application to the ...
... interests , of sections , localities , business , of the forceful doctrine of equality on which our system of government is founded . It was a cumulative declaration that that doctrine is not confined in its application to the ...
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... interest , and this ex- plains why some conservative and proper legislation for the regulation of the ... interests and have intensified the demand of the people for some legislative remedy . It will not be wise to longer ...
... interest , and this ex- plains why some conservative and proper legislation for the regulation of the ... interests and have intensified the demand of the people for some legislative remedy . It will not be wise to longer ...
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... interests ample opportunity to present their views . Report after re- port has been made , accompanied by thousands of pages of printed testimony , all of which have been open to the inspection of whomso ever cared to devote their time ...
... interests ample opportunity to present their views . Report after re- port has been made , accompanied by thousands of pages of printed testimony , all of which have been open to the inspection of whomso ever cared to devote their time ...
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Page 144 - 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 458 - ... 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 9 - 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 359 - 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.