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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But it has been interfered with by the railroad corporations in respect of each and every one of the matters and things mentioned in this sec . tion . Nothing has been more common in the practices of the railroad companies than the ...
But it has been interfered with by the railroad corporations in respect of each and every one of the matters and things mentioned in this sec . tion . Nothing has been more common in the practices of the railroad companies than the ...
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... necessarily passes into an unsettled and speculative state while this condition of things exists ; safe and close calculations are impossible ; transporta tion becomes cheap . but neither producer nor consumer is certain to reap the ...
... necessarily passes into an unsettled and speculative state while this condition of things exists ; safe and close calculations are impossible ; transporta tion becomes cheap . but neither producer nor consumer is certain to reap the ...
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The Belgian state railroads have within the last two years concluded a pooling agreement with the only private sysiem of importance , which provides for an almost permanent division of traffic and is intended to render competi . tion ...
The Belgian state railroads have within the last two years concluded a pooling agreement with the only private sysiem of importance , which provides for an almost permanent division of traffic and is intended to render competi . tion ...
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If you have gone too far you e un not receile without having clone great injustice , deranged the commerce and transportation of the country , and caused great destru :tion of property and great reduction in values .
If you have gone too far you e un not receile without having clone great injustice , deranged the commerce and transportation of the country , and caused great destru :tion of property and great reduction in values .
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... that it materially and adversely affects certain people whom he deems it to be his duty to represent on this floor , and therefore he gives a certain construction to the fourth section which is directly the opposite construc1 tion ...
... that it materially and adversely affects certain people whom he deems it to be his duty to represent on this floor , and therefore he gives a certain construction to the fourth section which is directly the opposite construc1 tion ...
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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.
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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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