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" The Legislature shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this State... "
Constitution of the State of Illinois: Adopted and Ratified in 1870, and ... - Page 46
by Illinois - 1879 - 54 pages
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The Compiled Statutes of the State of Nebraska: 1881 (6th Ed.), with ...

Nebraska, Guy Ashton Brown, Hiland Hill Wheeler - Law - 1893 - 1370 pages
...necessity, the same as of individuals. SEC. 7. [Abuses to be regulated by law.]— The legislature shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in all charges of express, telegraph, and railroad companies in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate...
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Legislative Manual

Texas. Legislature - 1921 - 386 pages
...common carriers. The Legislature shall pass laws to regulate railroad freight and passenger tariffs, to correct abuses, and prevent unjust discrimination...the different railroads in this State, and enforce the same by adequate penalties; and to the further accomplishment of these objects and purposes may...
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Public Utilities Reports, Volume 1

Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1036 pages
...general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and to prevent unjust discriminations and extortions in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state. These latter provisions of the statute and of the Constitution clearly reserve and give to the state...
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The Revised Constitution of Illinois, 1922

Illinois - Constitution - 1922 - 56 pages
...establishing reasonable maximum rates for the transportation of passengers and freight thereon. Section 224. The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses...laws by adequate penalties to the extent if necessary of forfeitures of their property and franchises. Section 225. Nothing in the two preceding sections...
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Journal of the Constitutional Convention, 1920-1922 of the State of Illinois ...

Illinois. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1922 - 992 pages
...the transportation of passengers and freight on the different railroads in this State. , Section 9. The General Assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discriminations and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads...
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Law Series, Issues 25-32

Law - 1923 - 582 pages
...constructed in this State, are hereby declared public highways, and the railroad companies public carriers. The General Assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses...and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this State, and shall from time...
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American Economic History

Harold Underwood Faulkner - United States - 1924 - 752 pages
...Illinois state constitution of 1870 the legislature was ordered to "pass laws to correct abuses and to prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs." Laws of 1871 attempted to do this by providing maximum fares and freight rates, by regulating warehouses...
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The United States of America, Volume 2

David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1924 - 884 pages
...Granger Laws originated. The new constitution of Illinois gave a mandate to the legislature in 1870 to "pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in rates of freight and passenger traffic." The legislature duly passed the regulative laws in 1871, but...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 264

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1924 - 730 pages
...•car, freight and passenger tariffs and service, express rates, and telephone and telegraph charges, to correct abuses, and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates for the same, on the different railroads, steamboats and other water craft, sleeping car, express,...
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A History of the United States Since the Civil War: 1872-78

Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - United States - 1926 - 560 pages
...in 1870 framed a new constitution for Illinois, one of its provisions directing the legislature to "pass laws to correct abuses, and prevent unjust discrimination...and passenger tariffs on the different railroads," and enforce such laws by adequate penalties.2 At its next ensuing session the legislature again turned...
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