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... courts during the year and those pending in cases instituted by the board to enforce its rulings , a digest of the decisions of the supreme court of the state made since the last report so far as the same relate to the business of ...
... courts during the year and those pending in cases instituted by the board to enforce its rulings , a digest of the decisions of the supreme court of the state made since the last report so far as the same relate to the business of ...
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... courts of the United States to restrain the enforcement of that statute , and the case was finally decided by the supreme court of the United States . chief justice who wrote the opinion used the following language : The This company ...
... courts of the United States to restrain the enforcement of that statute , and the case was finally decided by the supreme court of the United States . chief justice who wrote the opinion used the following language : The This company ...
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... court of the United States , the great question to be decided and which was argued and decided in that court in what is known as the " Granger cases , " was the right of the state within which a railroad company did business to regulate ...
... court of the United States , the great question to be decided and which was argued and decided in that court in what is known as the " Granger cases , " was the right of the state within which a railroad company did business to regulate ...
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... court , the opinion proceeds as follows : These cases all support the proposition that while it is not the province ... court of the United States not only review that case somewhat , but many other prior cases in the same court bearing ...
... court , the opinion proceeds as follows : These cases all support the proposition that while it is not the province ... court of the United States not only review that case somewhat , but many other prior cases in the same court bearing ...
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... court has declared in several cases that there is a remedy in the courts for relief against legislation establishing a tariff of rates which is so unreasonable as to practically destroy the value of property of companies engaged in the ...
... court has declared in several cases that there is a remedy in the courts for relief against legislation establishing a tariff of rates which is so unreasonable as to practically destroy the value of property of companies engaged in the ...
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Page 344 - President: but their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the Commissioner whom he shall succeed. Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 66 - 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, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines...
Page 338 - America in congress assembled, that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 353 - But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said commission, or in obedience to its subpoena, or the subpoena of either of them, or in any such case or proceeding : Provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 354 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 344 - ... hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction within the district in which such offense was committed, be subject for each offense to a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 350 - All of the expenses of the Commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the Commissioners, or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor, approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Page 355 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 350 - Witnesses summoned before the Commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States. All of the expenses of the Commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the Commissioners, or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation...
Page 344 - ... owning stock or bonds thereof, or who is in any manner pecuniarily interested therein, shall enter upon the duties of or hold such office.