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Amendment of the Interstate Commerce Law; Arguments and Statements Made Before Interstate Commerce Committees in the Fifty-Seventh Congress in Favor of Enlarging the Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission

Amendment of the Interstate Commerce Law; Arguments and Statements Made Before Interstate Commerce Committees in the Fifty-Seventh Congress in Favor of Enlarging the Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of any part thereof; or, as in the case of agricultural products, the value thereof at the place of production is dependent upon the freight charged therefrom to the nearest available market, which is borne in the outset by the producer, who has no standing in the courts, the freight being paid to the carrier by the dealer who handles the property on which it is charged. It will be readily seen that in both cases the person who pays the freight, who is the only one having any legal claim against the carrier, has no equitable interest in any excess that may be charged beyond a reasonable rate, and that the only protection to the person upon whom the charge for freight actually falls lies in the proper regulation beforehand of the rate to be charged. All the provisions of the-bill now before you were contained in the Nelson-Corliss Bill, hearings on which were held by your honorable committee during the first session of the 57th Congress, at which Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, said: For ten years the Commission charged with the administration of this law -- from 1887 to 1897 -- assumed that it had authority to do everything which this Corliss Bill would permit it to do. He adds in this connection that, In the first eight months after the Commission was organized, when one of the most eminent jurists this country ever produced, Judge Cooley, was its chairman, the Commission made orders which in principle arid in terms covered every order which the Commission could make under this Corliss Bill. During the period that these powers were exercised by the Commission, the right to exercise which was not then questioned by the carriers, no such dire results followed as are now predicted by the opponents of the proposed legislation; but, on the contrary, i...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217678599
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217678599
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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