Grain Exchanges: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Sixty Third Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 424U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - 429 pages |
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... purchase , and sale of wheat to suit their speculative purposes ; and Whereas it is generally charged and believed that wheat arriving at the terminal markets from country points is in the first instance graded with unfair severity and ...
... purchase , and sale of wheat to suit their speculative purposes ; and Whereas it is generally charged and believed that wheat arriving at the terminal markets from country points is in the first instance graded with unfair severity and ...
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... purchasing power of grain producers . 4. Grain producers and those directly dependent upon such pro- ducers form a larger proportion of our population than any other industry . 5. The vastness of this industry and its necessary ...
... purchasing power of grain producers . 4. Grain producers and those directly dependent upon such pro- ducers form a larger proportion of our population than any other industry . 5. The vastness of this industry and its necessary ...
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... purchasing power of agriculture , because the great factor of grain speculation in this investigation is the power of monopoly of cash grain in the hands of four men , holding the power of delivery on the enormous contracts held in ...
... purchasing power of agriculture , because the great factor of grain speculation in this investigation is the power of monopoly of cash grain in the hands of four men , holding the power of delivery on the enormous contracts held in ...
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... purchasing power . That is what they needed . Now this condition became apparent on the board of trade and finally led up to an investigation as to conditions which related to this monopoly , and the board of trade decided that there ...
... purchasing power . That is what they needed . Now this condition became apparent on the board of trade and finally led up to an investigation as to conditions which related to this monopoly , and the board of trade decided that there ...
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... purchase , which has taken out of business entirely the old exporting interest that was formerly so largely represented in Chicago , and has taken millions of dollars annually out of the hands of our producers , correspondingly ...
... purchase , which has taken out of business entirely the old exporting interest that was formerly so largely represented in Chicago , and has taken millions of dollars annually out of the hands of our producers , correspondingly ...
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association attorney Bert Cole board of directors board of trade bucket shops buyers CANTRILL carload cars cent per bushel cents a bushel CHAIRMAN chamber of commerce Chicago Board city of Chicago Commerce of Minneapolis commission merchants committee competition Congress contract corn crop dealers DRAKE Duluth elevator companies Equity Cooperative Exchange Equity Exchange fact farmers future contracts future delivery future trading gentlemen grade Grain Growers GREELEY handling hedging HOSKINS Illinois inspection interests investigation legislation LENROOT Loftus MANAHAN MARBLE membership millers milling Minn Minneapolis Chamber Minnesota Minnesota Legislature monopoly North Dakota operations organization president producers profit public elevators public storage public warehouse purchase question railroad and warehouse receipts ROBBINS Rosenbaum rules sell shipped shipper SHORTHILL sold speculative statement switching charge terminal elevators terminal markets testimony tion to-day transactions warehouse commission warehousemen wheat
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Page 307 - Received, subject to the classifications and tariffs in effect on the date of issue of this original bill of lading. At Ithaca, Mich., 18-1, 1911, from owner* the property described below, in apparent good order, except as noted (contents and condition of contents of packages unknown...
Page 295 - Notary Public in and for said county, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared and , personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within instrument, and they each duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same.
Page 208 - Of course, in a modern market contracts are not confined to sales for immediate delivery. People will endeavor to forecast the future and to make agreements according to their prophecy. Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable. Its value is well known as a means of avoiding or mitigating catastrophes, equalizing prices and providing for periods of want.
Page 194 - They are used as instruments by those engaged in state as well as those engaged in the inter-state commerce, but they are no more necessarily a part of commerce itself than the dray or the cart by which, but for them, grain would be transferred from one railroad station to another. Incidentally they may become connected with inter-state commerce, but not necessarily so.
Page 209 - The plaintiff does not lose its rights by communicating the result to persons, even if many, in confidential relations to itself, under a contract not to make it public, and strangers to the trust will be restrained from getting at the knowledge by inducing a breach of trust and using knowledge obtained by such a breach.
Page 208 - June 6, 1887, that is, places wherein is permitted the pretended buying and selling of grain, etc., without any intention of receiving and paying for the property so bought, or of delivering the property so sold. On this ground it is contended that if under other circumstances there could be property in the quotations, which hardly is admitted, the...
Page 210 - Time is of the essence in matters like this, and it fairly may be said that, if the contracts with the plaintiff are kept, the information will not become public property until the plaintiff has gained its reward.
Page 307 - It is mutually agreed, as to each carrier of all or any of said property over all or any portion of said route to destination, and as to each party at any time interested in all or any of said property, that every service to be performed hereunder shall be subject to all the conditions...
Page 307 - ... the surrender of this bill of lading properly indorsed shall be required before the delivery of the property at destination.
Page 208 - Its value is well known as a means of avoiding or mitigating catastrophes, equalizing prices and providing for periods of want. It is true that the success of the strong induces imitation by the weak, and that incompetent persons bring themselves to ruin by undertaking to speculate in their turn. But legislatures and courts generally have recognized that the natural evolutions of a complex society are to be touched only with a very cautious hand, and that such coarse attempts at a remedy for the...