...other roads. The interstate commerce act applies, by its own terms, "to any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment" not "wholly within one state;" and all charges for any such...

...states and of England. This last-mentioned act may be summarized as follows: That the provisions of the act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers...property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water. It provides that all charges for services shall be reasonable and just; that unjust...

...shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this act, arid to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad. * * * All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers...

...shall be considered and held to be common carriers within the meaning and purpose of this Act, and to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation...shipment), from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of...

...distance." The first section prescribes who shall be subject to the provisions of the act. They are. "any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuons carriage or shipment," etc. The party then, it is claimed, who can be liable under...

...Housatouic Eailroad and to the petitioner. Respondent cites the first section of the act, providing that it shall " apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged...property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad aud partly by water, when both are used under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous...

...answered by the first section of that act. By that section, the provisions of the act are declared to "apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in...from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of...

...(US Сотр. St. Supp. 1907, p. 892), provides among other things as follows: "That the provisions of this act shall apply * * * to any common carrier...'under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or (shipment) * • • and also to the transportation, in like manner, of...

...all after the enacting clause and insert the following: That the provisions of this act shall upply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation...property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and purtiy by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, lor a continuous...

...cases from the operation of this section of this act. In section 1 it is provided that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water, when both are used for a continuous...