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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... mile on the average . This amount is ascertained and known by each road with almost mathematical exact- ness . We may assume , if you please , for illustration , that this cost is at the average rate of 1 cent per ton per mile for all ...
... mile on the average . This amount is ascertained and known by each road with almost mathematical exact- ness . We may assume , if you please , for illustration , that this cost is at the average rate of 1 cent per ton per mile for all ...
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... miles of railroad , one- third of all your mileage ; taking these lines and their connections , they represent a capital , in the proportion that the number of miles bears to the whole , of probably $ 2,500,000,000 . Those great corpora ...
... miles of railroad , one- third of all your mileage ; taking these lines and their connections , they represent a capital , in the proportion that the number of miles bears to the whole , of probably $ 2,500,000,000 . Those great corpora ...
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... miles in the State he paid just as much as the man who went from Philadelphia to New York , 90 miles . That is true of all other taxes . But the matter was agitated all over the country , and the State changed her mode of tax- ation ...
... miles in the State he paid just as much as the man who went from Philadelphia to New York , 90 miles . That is true of all other taxes . But the matter was agitated all over the country , and the State changed her mode of tax- ation ...
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... miles transportation the same freight as for 800 miles east , so that now the basis of charges is " all the traffic will bear . " The railroad rulers , stronger than Govern- ment , are determined that the farmer shall have only the ...
... miles transportation the same freight as for 800 miles east , so that now the basis of charges is " all the traffic will bear . " The railroad rulers , stronger than Govern- ment , are determined that the farmer shall have only the ...
Side 63
... miles of rails within our borders as evidence of wealth . So it would be if the nation was not charged up and taxed for sufficient to build triple the number of miles . Then they assert too many roads have been built on parallel lines ...
... miles of rails within our borders as evidence of wealth . So it would be if the nation was not charged up and taxed for sufficient to build triple the number of miles . Then they assert too many roads have been built on parallel lines ...
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Interstate Commerce: Debate in Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session ... United States. Congress Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1884 |
Interstate Commerce: Debate in Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session ... United States. Congress Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1884 |
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...