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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... fixed by the proposed amend- ment , and it is precisely what is demanded by the great body of ship- pers of the country . It embodies a principle of fairness to shippers and security to railroads that is beginning to be recognized by ...
... fixed by the proposed amend- ment , and it is precisely what is demanded by the great body of ship- pers of the country . It embodies a principle of fairness to shippers and security to railroads that is beginning to be recognized by ...
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... fix rates . The committee did not believe that it was wise for Congress to undertake to do that with its present imperfect knowledge . It did not believe that it was wise to give that power to any commission which might be organized ...
... fix rates . The committee did not believe that it was wise for Congress to undertake to do that with its present imperfect knowledge . It did not believe that it was wise to give that power to any commission which might be organized ...
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... fixed for carrying freight across a non - physical line between the States be different from what is charged for the ... fix the rates of railroad companies tends to fix the price of labor . Further , in all these efforts at regulation I ...
... fixed for carrying freight across a non - physical line between the States be different from what is charged for the ... fix the rates of railroad companies tends to fix the price of labor . Further , in all these efforts at regulation I ...
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... fixed expenses and run , or they must put the through business at so high a figure as to prohibit the shipment of produce for a longer distance than five or six hundred miles . I discussed this question at some length on a former ...
... fixed expenses and run , or they must put the through business at so high a figure as to prohibit the shipment of produce for a longer distance than five or six hundred miles . I discussed this question at some length on a former ...
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... fix a reasonable rate of local freight for 20 miles , such as will enable any railroad company to pay even the fixed expense of keeping its road in repair and running it , and you will then fix a through rate for the same car - load for ...
... fix a reasonable rate of local freight for 20 miles , such as will enable any railroad company to pay even the fixed expense of keeping its road in repair and running it , and you will then fix a through rate for the same car - load for ...
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Página 223 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Página 139 - ... than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service In the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which Is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Página 87 - 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...
Página 218 - Court of equity, and without the formal pleadings and proceedings applicable to ordinary suits in equity, but in such manner as to do justice in the premises; and to this end such Court shall have power, if it think fit, to direct and prosecute, in" such mode and by such persons as it may appoint, all such inquiries as the Court may think needful to enable it to form a just judgment in the matter of such petition...
Página 561 - That nothing in this Act shall prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, State, or municipal governments...
Página 69 - ... the carriage of freights from being and being treated as one continuous carriage from the place of shipment to the place of destination, unless such break, stoppage, or interruption was made in good faith for some necessary purpose, and without any intent to avoid or unnecessarily interrupt such continuous carriage or to evade any of the provisions of this act.
Página 408 - The costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States.
Página 561 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Página 218 - ... shall happen, alleging such violation or disobedience as the case may be; and the said Court shall have power to hear and determine the matter, on such short notice to the common carrier complained of as the Court shall deem reasonable; and such notice may be served on such common carrier, his or its officers, agents, or servants...
Página 556 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...