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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... allowed to make a statement in reference to this subject at this time . I will do so . The PRESIDENT protempore . The Chair will determine the point of order in the first place . The Chair is of opinion that pending a motion to proceed ...
... allowed to make a statement in reference to this subject at this time . I will do so . The PRESIDENT protempore . The Chair will determine the point of order in the first place . The Chair is of opinion that pending a motion to proceed ...
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... allow the public to aid them ; and in all this they have done violence to their own interests and have intensified the demand of the people for some legislative remedy . It will not be wise to longer delay some affirma tive response to ...
... allow the public to aid them ; and in all this they have done violence to their own interests and have intensified the demand of the people for some legislative remedy . It will not be wise to longer delay some affirma tive response to ...
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... allowed until the public has become tired of it and now de- mands action . But it is urged that there is great diversity of opinion relative to what ought to be done in the premises . This is true . It has been true from the beginning ...
... allowed until the public has become tired of it and now de- mands action . But it is urged that there is great diversity of opinion relative to what ought to be done in the premises . This is true . It has been true from the beginning ...
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... allowed to go over until after the adjournment . In making this inquiry I would remind the Senator [ Mr. CULLOM ] in ... allow this bill to fail for want of time ; but so far as I am concerned it shall not fail if I have the power to ...
... allowed to go over until after the adjournment . In making this inquiry I would remind the Senator [ Mr. CULLOM ] in ... allow this bill to fail for want of time ; but so far as I am concerned it shall not fail if I have the power to ...
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... allow rates to be put down to a point where they are ruinously low or practically unremunerative ? I apprehend that the Senator who should claim that it was for the public welfare and the public advantage that a state operating a rail ...
... allow rates to be put down to a point where they are ruinously low or practically unremunerative ? I apprehend that the Senator who should claim that it was for the public welfare and the public advantage that a state operating a rail ...
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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.