Interstate Commerce: Debate in Forty-Eighth Congress, Second Session [-Fiftieth Congress], on the Bill (H.R. 5461) to Establish a Board of Commissioners of Interstate Commerce and to Regulate Such Commerce &c., &c |
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... President , during the last days of the last ses- sion of Congress a conference was appointed by the two Houses upon the bill ( S. 1532 ) to regulate commerce . The conferees on the part of the Senate have instructed me to make a report ...
... President , during the last days of the last ses- sion of Congress a conference was appointed by the two Houses upon the bill ( S. 1532 ) to regulate commerce . The conferees on the part of the Senate have instructed me to make a report ...
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... President , as this report Mr. CULLOM . My present motion is that this report be printed and that the Senate bill as passed by the Senate be also printed again , with the amendments proposed in italics , so that every Senator can see ...
... President , as this report Mr. CULLOM . My present motion is that this report be printed and that the Senate bill as passed by the Senate be also printed again , with the amendments proposed in italics , so that every Senator can see ...
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... President , I did not expect to say anything on the general subject of the bill , and I shall only add a word to what has been stated . I think that my colleague on the committee is probably laboring un- der undue fear of the ...
... President , I did not expect to say anything on the general subject of the bill , and I shall only add a word to what has been stated . I think that my colleague on the committee is probably laboring un- der undue fear of the ...
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... President , I wish to express my surprise that the chairman of the committee should refuse to accede to what seems to me the reasonable request of Senators , that this bill may go over and be set down for a day certain after the coming ...
... President , I wish to express my surprise that the chairman of the committee should refuse to accede to what seems to me the reasonable request of Senators , that this bill may go over and be set down for a day certain after the coming ...
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... PRESIDENT pro tempore . This question has not yet been dis- posed of . Mr. CULLOM . I hope it will be disposed of ... President , and that is to lay on the table and print . The PRESIDENT pro tempore . The Senator from Illinois moves ...
... PRESIDENT pro tempore . This question has not yet been dis- posed of . Mr. CULLOM . I hope it will be disposed of ... President , and that is to lay on the table and print . The PRESIDENT pro tempore . The Senator from Illinois moves ...
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Page 144 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 458 - ... that upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act.
Page 9 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 359 - If such carrier shall not satisfy the complaint within the time specified, or there shall appear to be any reasonable ground for investigating said complaint, it shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.