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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For instance , all the legislation of the State of Massachusetts upon this subject is
to be found in a single statute which is in chapter 225 of the acts of May 16 , 1882
. I read it . It is an amendment to a former statute which imposed penalties for ...
For instance , all the legislation of the State of Massachusetts upon this subject is
to be found in a single statute which is in chapter 225 of the acts of May 16 , 1882
. I read it . It is an amendment to a former statute which imposed penalties for ...
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Shall we surrender it for the fear that if we do the wise thing here there may be
obstinacy elsewhere which shall prevent any legislation at all ? If that principle is
to be adopted , then we are driven to this in the Senate , that whenever legislation
...
Shall we surrender it for the fear that if we do the wise thing here there may be
obstinacy elsewhere which shall prevent any legislation at all ? If that principle is
to be adopted , then we are driven to this in the Senate , that whenever legislation
...
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And while it is not , in my judgment , by any means certain that the charuter of the
proposed legislation in some of its prominent features , which more thar others
have been discussed by the people and urged upon the attention of Congress ...
And while it is not , in my judgment , by any means certain that the charuter of the
proposed legislation in some of its prominent features , which more thar others
have been discussed by the people and urged upon the attention of Congress ...
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None more than they can possibly be interested in a greater degree in some
effective legislation that will reduce the transportation charges to which they are
subjected to reasonable figures , and abrogate and prohibit these grievous ...
None more than they can possibly be interested in a greater degree in some
effective legislation that will reduce the transportation charges to which they are
subjected to reasonable figures , and abrogate and prohibit these grievous ...
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The court has proceeded in the direction of disallowing State legislation further
and further ; but even when there was ... tendency and of the very extent of this
legislation in these obnoxious clauses that we are to proceed upon and dispose
of .
The court has proceeded in the direction of disallowing State legislation further
and further ; but even when there was ... tendency and of the very extent of this
legislation in these obnoxious clauses that we are to proceed upon and dispose
of .
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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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