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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... limits the power of the commissioners to authorize the charging of less for a greater than a shorter distance to special cases . Each one of these modifications is in the line of the original bill as it passed the Senate , and , it ...
... limits the power of the commissioners to authorize the charging of less for a greater than a shorter distance to special cases . Each one of these modifications is in the line of the original bill as it passed the Senate , and , it ...
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... limits of the Constitution , which I understand to be for the regulation of that portion of the business done upon the rail- roads of the country which comes within the definition of interstate commerce . " I wish that it were so that ...
... limits of the Constitution , which I understand to be for the regulation of that portion of the business done upon the rail- roads of the country which comes within the definition of interstate commerce . " I wish that it were so that ...
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... limits . A careful study of the bill as it was passed by the Senate will show that we did not go outside of those limits , that we undertook to make no new law for the regulation of railroads and the business of railroads and interstate ...
... limits . A careful study of the bill as it was passed by the Senate will show that we did not go outside of those limits , that we undertook to make no new law for the regulation of railroads and the business of railroads and interstate ...
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... limit competition , that it is illegal . I undertake to say that , with the exception of one or two cases to which I ... limits , or unless they related to the control of a production like coal or iron , as well as the carrying of the ...
... limit competition , that it is illegal . I undertake to say that , with the exception of one or two cases to which I ... limits , or unless they related to the control of a production like coal or iron , as well as the carrying of the ...
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... limit the output of coal or iron , or the supply of coal , or iron , or salt , or other commodities . Contracts for the apportionment of traffic between competing roads are easily dis- tinguishable from the class of cases to which I ...
... limit the output of coal or iron , or the supply of coal , or iron , or salt , or other commodities . Contracts for the apportionment of traffic between competing roads are easily dis- tinguishable from the class of cases to which I ...
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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.