Regulation of Railway Rates: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Fifty-eighth Congress, Third Session on Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act. December 16, 1904, to February 23, 1905, Volume 2

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Page 1545 - transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the
Page 1412 - it shall be unlawful for any carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue, or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person,
Page 917 - added, in section 12, this clause: " The Commission is hereby authorized and required to execute and enforce the provisions of this act; and, upon the request of the Commission, it shall be the duty of any district attorney of the United •States to whom the
Page 1545 - States or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States
Page 921 - or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect of the transportation of any property In interstate or foreign commerce whereby such property shall by any device whatever be transported at a less rate than that named in the tariffs published by the carrier, must be enforced.
Page 1545 - that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement
Page 1558 - and February 8, 1895). 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,
Page 800 - can not relieve itself of the responsibility by choosing other agencies upon which the power shall be devolved, nor can it substitute the judgment, wisdom, and patriotism of any other body for those to which alone the people have seen fit to confide this sovereign trust. (Cooley's Constitutional Limitations,
Page 876 - exercised the function of making laws. Legislative power was exercised when Congress declared that the suspension should take effect upon a named contingency. What the President was required to do was simply in execution of the act of Congress. It was not the making of law.
Page 1119 - and 7: That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or property.

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