The heart of the railroad problem: The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countriesParsons, Frank
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The heart of the railroad problem: The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countries
Parsons, Frank
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates -- United States; Railroads and state -- United States
Ind. Com. iv, 252.
Footnote 133:
_Ibid._, 257.
Footnote 134:
Alabama Midland Case. Decis. of U. S. Supreme Court, Nov. 8, 1897, 168
U. S. 144; Behlmer Case, 175 U. S. 648, 676; 181 U. S. 1, 29; Dallas
Case, I. C. C. Rep. 1901, p. 27. Actual and controlling competition of
any sort is now held to justify a less charge for the longer than for
the shorter haul. 10 I. C. C. Decis. 289, June, 1904. See also Senate
Committee, 1905, 3339, where Chairman Knapp of the Interstate
Commission declares that the courts have interpreted the law so that
if the circumstances substantially differ, no matter what the reason,
the prohibition does not apply. Brooks Adams says, “The Supreme Court
is antagonistic to that clause,” (the long and short haul clause) and
does not intend to enforce it. “They have simply thrown out every
suitor but one who came in under that clause.” (Sen. Com., 1905, p.
2922.)
Footnote 135:
I. C. C. Rep. 1887. Nearly a hundred pages are filled with both the
statements and petitions of railroads relating to the long-haul
clause. See also Rep. for 1895, pp. 24–28. Exemption from the
long-haul clause was allowed in the case of passenger fares to the
World’s Fair at Chicago.
Footnote 136:
_In re_ Louisville and Nashville, 1 I. C. C. Decis., 1887, p. 31. See
also Ga. Rd. Commission _v._ Clyde Steamship Co., 5 I. C. C. Decis.
326.
Footnote 137:
Alabama Midland or Troy Case, 168 U. S. 144, 164, 166. Reference was
made to 31 Fed. Rep. 315, 862; 50 Fed. Rep. 295; 56 Fed. Rep. 925,
943; 71 Fed. Rep. 835, Behlmer Case; 73 Fed. Rep. 409, I. C. C. _v._
Louisville and Nashville.
Footnote 138:
I. C. C. Rep. 1899, pp. 66–68; 85 Fed. Rep. 1898, p. 107; 99 Fed. Rep.
1899, p. 52.
Footnote 139:
181 U. S. 1, April, 1901.
Footnote 140:
_Ibid._, 29, 1901.
Footnote 141:
Rep. 1895, p. 29. See Louisville & Nashville Case, 1 I. C. C. Decis.
31; C. B. & Q. Case, 2 I. C. C. Decis. 46; Krewer Case, 4 I. C. C.
Decis. 686; Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis R. R. Co., 6 I. C. C.
Decis. 343. See also 8 I. C. C. Decis. 503.
Footnote 142:
H. P. Newcomb, _Popular Science Monthly_, p. 815, Oct. 1897.
Footnote 143:
I. C. C. Rep. 1894, p. 19; 1900, p. 52. The Railways declined to obey;
the Circuit Court ruled against the Commission (71 Fed. Rep. Jan.
1896, p. 835); the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Circuit Court
decision (83 Fed. Rep. Nov. 1897, p. 898); and finally, in Jan. 1900,
the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and sustained
the railroads. (Behlmer Case, 175 U. S. 648.)
Footnote 144:
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