House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 13, Part 2 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 99
Page 9
... less than the average value of the commodities composing our foreign commerce , it is evident that the tonnage of internal commerce ( i . e . , employment of the vehicles of transportation ) bears a very much higher ratio to the tonnage ...
... less than the average value of the commodities composing our foreign commerce , it is evident that the tonnage of internal commerce ( i . e . , employment of the vehicles of transportation ) bears a very much higher ratio to the tonnage ...
Page 15
... less profita- ble rates . In some cases the proprietors of fast - freight lines were man- agers of the railroads over which they were run , and the concessions were believed to have been fraudulently obtained . This form of fast ...
... less profita- ble rates . In some cases the proprietors of fast - freight lines were man- agers of the railroads over which they were run , and the concessions were believed to have been fraudulently obtained . This form of fast ...
Page 21
... less expensive ones . The average cost of transportation not only differs on different roads , but it varies widely with respect to the carriage of different commodi- ties on the same road . Mr. Fink also states that the results of the ...
... less expensive ones . The average cost of transportation not only differs on different roads , but it varies widely with respect to the carriage of different commodi- ties on the same road . Mr. Fink also states that the results of the ...
Page 24
... less than a car - load . The work performed with respect to movement was precisely the same in the two cases , and yet the cost of performing it was more than ten times greater in the one case than in the other . The effect of an ...
... less than a car - load . The work performed with respect to movement was precisely the same in the two cases , and yet the cost of performing it was more than ten times greater in the one case than in the other . The effect of an ...
Page 26
... less than any of these rates . It is generally believed that 40 cents per hundred pounds for the transportation of grain from Chicago to New York , a distance of 837 miles , is a remunerative rate . This , however , is at the ' rate of ...
... less than any of these rates . It is generally believed that 40 cents per hundred pounds for the transportation of grain from Chicago to New York , a distance of 837 miles , is a remunerative rate . This , however , is at the ' rate of ...
Contents
8 | |
21 | |
35 | |
36 | |
43 | |
67 | |
74 | |
78 | |
49 | |
70 | |
77 | |
92 | |
100 | |
107 | |
114 | |
127 | |
85 | |
91 | |
131 | |
144 | |
148 | |
152 | |
157 | |
186 | |
197 | |
212 | |
1 | |
28 | |
134 | |
140 | |
148 | |
166 | |
186 | |
199 | |
227 | |
233 | |
239 | |
246 | |
250 | |
256 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Albert Fink amount Answer Atlantic seaboard Atlantic seaports bales Baltimore Baltimore and Ohio barrels Buffalo Bushels carried cars Central Railroad cents per 100 charges Chattanooga Chicago Cincinnati clearing-house commerce commissioner commodities competing lines competition connection construction corn cost of transportation cotton direct discriminations distance east Erie Canal exported fact flour foreign freight Government grain Grand Trunk Grand Trunk Railway important increase interests interior points lake Louisville Louisville and Nashville markets Memphis merchandise miles Mississippi River Montgomery Montreal movement Nashville Nashville Railroad navigation Ohio Railroad Ohio River Orleans Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia ports pounds quantity Question rail railroad companies railroad managers Railway rates receipts regard regulations roads route Saint Lawrence River Saint Louis Saint Paul secure Selma shipments shipped statement steamers tariffs thence tion tonnage tons Total trade traffic trunk lines United water-lines West Western wheat York Central York Central Railroad
Popular passages
Page 211 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use,...
Page 211 - It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 175 - State to another, shall confine the same in cars, boats or vessels of any description for a longer period than twenty-eight consecutive hours, without unloading the same for rest, water and feeding for a period of at least five consecutive hours, unless prevented from so unloading by storm or other accidental causes.
Page 213 - It matters not in this case that these plaintiffs in error had built their warehouses and established their business before the regulations complained of were adopted. What they did was, from the beginning, subject to the power of the body politic to require them to conform to such regulations as might be established by the proper authorities for the common good.
Page 211 - From this it is apparent that, down to the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, it was not supposed that statutes regulating the use, or even the price of the use, of private property necessarily deprived an owner of his property without due process of law. Under some circumstances they may, but not under all. The amendment does not change the law in this particular: it simply prevents the States from doing that which will operate as such a deprivation.
Page 213 - In countries where the common law prevails, it has been customary from time immemorial for the legislature to declare what shall be a reasonable compensation under such circumstances, or perhaps more properly speaking, to fix a maximum beyond which any charge made would be unreasonable.
Page 212 - For our purposes we must assume that, if a state of facts could exist that would justify such legislation, it actually did exist when the statute now under consideration was passed. For us the question is one of power, not of expediency. If no state of circumstances could exist to justify such a statute, then we may declare this one void, because in excess of the legislative power of the state. But if it could, we must presume it did.
Page 212 - They stand, to use again the language of their counsel, in the very ''gateway of commerce," and take toll from all who pass. Their business most certainly "tends to a common charge, and is be^ come a thing of public interest and use." Every bushel of grain for its passage "pays a toll, which is a common charge," and, therefore, according to Lord IIale, every such warehouseman "ought to be under public regulation, viz.
Page 211 - ... and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold. To this day, statutes are to be found in many of the States upon some or all these subjects ; and we think it has never yet been successfully contended that such legislation came within any of the constitutional prohibitions against interference with private property.
Page 210 - While this provision of the amendment is new in the Constitution of the United States, as a limitation upon the powers of the States, it is old as a principle of civilized government. It is found in Magna Charta, and, in substance if not in form, in nearly or quite all the constitutions that have been from time to time adopted by the several States of the Union.