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
“It is insisted that the court had no power in a proceeding of this
character to fix the percentage of cars the relator should have, and to
command that such percentage of cars should be furnished to the relator.
The acts of Congress forbade discrimination and made it unlawful to give
any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to particular persons,
companies, corporations, or localities, or any particular description of
traffic, or to subject them to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or
disadvantage in any respect whatsoever, and vested jurisdiction in the
circuit and district courts to proceed by mandamus as a cumulative
remedy for violations of the statutory provisions. We are unable to
accept the view that Congress intended to confine the scope of the writ
to admonition merely, or to a general command to desist from
discrimination, rather than from the particular action in which the
discrimination consisted. By the findings, the delivery to the relator
of any less than 31 percent of the supply amounted to unlawful
discrimination, and the judgment of the court did no more than to
correct it.”
Sometimes it is the denial of a switch, that blocks the independent; for
example, the railroads controlled by the coal pool refused to put in a
switch for the Johnson coal mine or to permit the company to put one in
until suit to forfeit its charter for refusing equal opportunities to
shippers was begun in the Ohio Supreme Court. Then the switch was put
in.
The Coal Combine and its railroads have persistently pursued the policy
of crushing smaller rivals by denying them transportation facilities.
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