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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Page 60
... practical effects upon the people of my own State , for Alabama is at the farther southern margin of the United States , and the markets in which we buy our dry goods and a large portion of our groceries are in the far northeast , and ...
... practical effects upon the people of my own State , for Alabama is at the farther southern margin of the United States , and the markets in which we buy our dry goods and a large portion of our groceries are in the far northeast , and ...
Page 61
... practical statement of the reasons why I might op- pose this bill will be quite sufficient I think to justify me in the course that I feel compelled to take toward it , but I have other reasons which I will proceed to state as briefly ...
... practical statement of the reasons why I might op- pose this bill will be quite sufficient I think to justify me in the course that I feel compelled to take toward it , but I have other reasons which I will proceed to state as briefly ...
Page 76
... practical ap- plication doubtful , and some of its effects impossible to predict . This is suffi- ciently shown beforehand by the known fact that scarcely two persons under- stand the section alike - even zealous advocates of the bill ...
... practical ap- plication doubtful , and some of its effects impossible to predict . This is suffi- ciently shown beforehand by the known fact that scarcely two persons under- stand the section alike - even zealous advocates of the bill ...
Page 77
... practical point of view by the merchants of the city of New York . They favor the general system of having a commission and of having the pend- ing bill adopted : but on the subject of the fourth and fifth sections , re- lating to the ...
... practical point of view by the merchants of the city of New York . They favor the general system of having a commission and of having the pend- ing bill adopted : but on the subject of the fourth and fifth sections , re- lating to the ...
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... practical operation a new and here- tofore untried system of regulation - untried at least as to the interstate commerce of the United States . The questions that may arise can not possibly all be foreseen or guarded against . The ...
... practical operation a new and here- tofore untried system of regulation - untried at least as to the interstate commerce of the United States . The questions that may arise can not possibly all be foreseen or guarded against . The ...
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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.