 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 986 pages
...enactments of congress relating to interstate commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies...character. It Is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment were Intended to be conferred upon it Besides, the acts of congress are now so construed... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1897 - 340 pages
...enactments of Congress relating to interstate commerce. The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies...States. It has been left, it is true, with power to n:ike reports and to issue protests. But it has been shern, by judicial interpretation, of autherity... | |
 | National Grange - 1897 - 814 pages
...enactments of congress relating to interstate commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among the several states, but it has been shorn of authority to do anything of an effective character. The law should be revised... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1898 - 702 pages
...enactments of Congress relating to interstate commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." In their report for 1897 the Interstate Commerce... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 792 pages
...enactments of Congress relating to interstate commerce. The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it. Besides, the acts of Congress are now so construed... | |
 | Railroads - 1899 - 200 pages
...enactments of Congress relating to interstate commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it. Besides, the acts of Congress are now so construed... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 820 pages
...decision, it seems to me, goes far to make that commission a useless body for all practical purposes. ... It has been shorn, by judicial interpretation, of...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." . . . Remembering these expressions of the... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 818 pages
...decision, it seems to me, goes far to make that commission a useless body for all practical purposes. ... It has been shorn, by judicial interpretation, of...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." . . . Remembering these expressions of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Interstate commerce - 1900 - 502 pages
...commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of the transportation companies engaged in commerce among...character. It is denied many of the powers which, in my judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it. Besides, the acts of Congress are now so construed... | |
 | United States. Industrial Commission - Industries - 1902 - 1324 pages
...are not extensive, and perhaps the criticism of Mr. Justice Harlan (168 US, 176) is justified that "it has been shorn by judicial interpretation of authority to do anything of an effective character." The antitrust act (26 Stat. L., 209) was passed to prohibit monopolistic combinations in restraint... | |
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The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among the several States. It has been left, it is true, with power to make reports, and to issue protests. But it has been... 
