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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... Georgia , Michigan , Missouri , Nebraska , Pennsyl- vania , and Ohio . Rebates and drawbacks are prohibited by constitutional enact- ments in Arkansas , California , Georgia , Missouri , and Pennsylvania , while the much - defended ...
... Georgia , Michigan , Missouri , Nebraska , Pennsyl- vania , and Ohio . Rebates and drawbacks are prohibited by constitutional enact- ments in Arkansas , California , Georgia , Missouri , and Pennsylvania , while the much - defended ...
Page 92
... Georgia , Ohio , Michigan , Missouri , Nebraska , and Pennsylvania - ought to be strongly persuasive evidence that the principle is vicious in practice , while the fact that all the wrongs committed under the Standard Oil monopoly were ...
... Georgia , Ohio , Michigan , Missouri , Nebraska , and Pennsylvania - ought to be strongly persuasive evidence that the principle is vicious in practice , while the fact that all the wrongs committed under the Standard Oil monopoly were ...
Page 164
... Georgia , Tennessee , and Alabama to the Western and Northern cities . I do not desire to predict evil , but I feel that I can not be mistaken when I state that this bill when put into operation will derange both the internal and ...
... Georgia , Tennessee , and Alabama to the Western and Northern cities . I do not desire to predict evil , but I feel that I can not be mistaken when I state that this bill when put into operation will derange both the internal and ...
Page 166
... Georgia , covering the greater part of that State , and a large part of South Carolina and Alabama . The East Tennessee , Vir- ginia and Georgia , with some 2,000 miles of railroad 166.
... Georgia , covering the greater part of that State , and a large part of South Carolina and Alabama . The East Tennessee , Vir- ginia and Georgia , with some 2,000 miles of railroad 166.
Page 167
... Georgia , with some 2,000 miles of railroad , covering the ter- ritory from Bristol , on the line of Virginia and Tennessee , to the Mis- sissippi River , and a line through Georgia from Chattanooga to Bruns- wick . The Queen and ...
... Georgia , with some 2,000 miles of railroad , covering the ter- ritory from Bristol , on the line of Virginia and Tennessee , to the Mis- sissippi River , and a line through Georgia from Chattanooga to Bruns- wick . The Queen and ...
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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.