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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The Chief Clerk read as follows : The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the ... and as it is not my purpose to ask the Senate to vote upon it to - day , because I think it is due to the Senate that ...
The Chief Clerk read as follows : The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the ... and as it is not my purpose to ask the Senate to vote upon it to - day , because I think it is due to the Senate that ...
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I believe we have voted to take a recess until the 4th of January . I hope that Senators will be prepared , if they desire to make any remarks upon the subject , to make them without delay , so that we can get a vote upon the question ...
I believe we have voted to take a recess until the 4th of January . I hope that Senators will be prepared , if they desire to make any remarks upon the subject , to make them without delay , so that we can get a vote upon the question ...
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... for the purpose of gettiny some kind of legislation , but for one I am content to stand and take the judgment of the country upon my action when I vote only for what upon mature deliberation I believe is the best legislation .
... for the purpose of gettiny some kind of legislation , but for one I am content to stand and take the judgment of the country upon my action when I vote only for what upon mature deliberation I believe is the best legislation .
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I had intended to vote for the report of the conference committee without saying a word ; but when I was urged by intelligent boards of trade in Kentucky and elsewhere to voto against this measure , I thought it was due to myself and ...
I had intended to vote for the report of the conference committee without saying a word ; but when I was urged by intelligent boards of trade in Kentucky and elsewhere to voto against this measure , I thought it was due to myself and ...
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... but to save somebody by a substantial provision on that subject . Mr. CULLOM . So do I ; but I do not want to humbug anybody either . The Senate , however , by a deliberate vote placed in the bill which was passed ...
... but to save somebody by a substantial provision on that subject . Mr. CULLOM . So do I ; but I do not want to humbug anybody either . The Senate , however , by a deliberate vote placed in the bill which was passed ...
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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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