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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... trade and commerce . It had assaulted all of the doctrines of our long established law relative to the duties and responsibilities of common carriers . It had asserted a masterful control of the doctrine of equal rights , and ...
... trade and commerce . It had assaulted all of the doctrines of our long established law relative to the duties and responsibilities of common carriers . It had asserted a masterful control of the doctrine of equal rights , and ...
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... trade are held to be illegal - that is , in the sense that they will not be enforced by the courts . I am not unmindful of the fact that combinations wholly to prevent competition in trade would be held illegal by the courts to the ...
... trade are held to be illegal - that is , in the sense that they will not be enforced by the courts . I am not unmindful of the fact that combinations wholly to prevent competition in trade would be held illegal by the courts to the ...
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... trade are void , yet if the restraints imposed be partial , reasonable , and founded on good consideration they are valid and will be enforced . And Judge Bradley , of the Supreme Court of the United States , held in that very same ...
... trade are void , yet if the restraints imposed be partial , reasonable , and founded on good consideration they are valid and will be enforced . And Judge Bradley , of the Supreme Court of the United States , held in that very same ...
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... trade to agree that one shall not exercise his trade nor compete with the other within a particular district . I shall not read further , but I will say that it having been settled that such contracts are valid in England , are held to ...
... trade to agree that one shall not exercise his trade nor compete with the other within a particular district . I shall not read further , but I will say that it having been settled that such contracts are valid in England , are held to ...
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... trade . It follows that whatever destroys or even relaxes competition in trade is injurious if not fatal to it . " I will not stop to read the decision in the other case because it fol- lowed the decision already referred to . Judge ...
... trade . It follows that whatever destroys or even relaxes competition in trade is injurious if not fatal to it . " I will not stop to read the decision in the other case because it fol- lowed the decision already referred to . Judge ...
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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.