 | National Grange - 1897 - 814 pages
...Commission a useless body for all practical purposes, and to defeat many of the important objects designed to be accomplished by the various enactments of Congress...conferred upon it. Besides, the acts of Congress are i68 now so construed as to place communities on the lines of inter-state commerce at the mercy of competmg... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1897 - 340 pages
...interstate commerce. The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among...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... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1898 - 702 pages
...interstate commerce. The commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among...judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." In their report for 1897 the Interstate Commerce Commission take the same view as to the effect of... | |
 | 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...judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." . . . Remembering these expressions of the learned justice, and taking them in connection with his... | |
 | 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...judgment, were intended to be conferred upon it." . . . Remembering these expressions of the learned justice, and taking them in connection with his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dittlew Monrad Frederiksen - 1904 - 28 pages
...interstate commerce. The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among...been left, it is true, with power to make reports and issue protests. • But it has been shorn, by judicial interpretation, of authority to do anything... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Interstate commerce - 1906 - 1080 pages
...transportation companies engaged in commerce among the several States. It has been left, it is true, in its power to make reports and to Issue protests. But It...the powers which, In my judgment, were intended to he conferred upon it * * * Under such an Interpretation of the statutes In question they may well be... | |
 | Frank Hendrick - Antitrust law - 1906 - 604 pages
...interstate commerce. The Commission was established to protect the public against the improper practices of transportation companies engaged in commerce among...been left, it is true, with power to make reports and issue protests, but it has been shorn by judicial interpretation of authority to do anything of an... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 1156 pages
...Interstate commerce. 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, in its power to make reports and to issue protests. But it has been shorn by judicial interpretation... | |
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Taken in connection with other decisions denning the powers of the Inter-State Commerce Commission, the present decision, it seems to me, goes far to make that Commission a useless body for all practical purposes, and to defeat many of the important objects... 
