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" There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates; or it might commit to some subordinate tribunal this duty ; or it might leave with the companies the right to fix rates, subject to regulations... "
Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention - Page 84
by National Association of Railway Commissioners (U.S.), National Association of Railway Commissioners (U.S.). Convention - 1906
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Report

Railroad Commission of Kentucky - 1910 - 576 pages
...Line, for at an earlier stage of his opinion is Interstate Com. Commission v. Ry. Co., he said (494) : "Congress might itself prescribe the rates; or it...which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to-wit: that rates must be reasonable." While it is true as before stated that the Kentucky Court of...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 167

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1897 - 810 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates; or it might...common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable. There is nothing in the act fixing rates. Congress did not attempt to exercise that power, and if we...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 167

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1897 - 808 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates ; or it...common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable. There is nothing in the act fixing rates. Congress did not attempt to exercise that power, .and if...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 167

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1897 - 810 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself, prescribe the rates ; or it...common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable. There is nothing in the. act fixing rates. Congress did not attempt to exercise that power, .and if...
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The Year Book of Railway Literature, Volume 1; Volume 1897

1897 - 550 pages
...were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself pre-; scribe the rates; or it might commit to some subordinate...common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable. There is nothing in the act fixing rates. Congress did not attempt to exercise that power, and if we...
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Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the United States ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1900 - 502 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. "There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates, or it mig^ht...the right to fix rates, subject to regulations and restricl^00«tions, as well as to that rule which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to...
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New Outlook, Volume 80

1905 - 1344 pages
...commerce by the Federal Congress. " Congress," said the Court, speaking through Mr. Justice Brewer, " might itself prescribe the rates ; or it might commit...carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable." What, then, would be the function of the courts in dealing with this matter ? It would be twofold....
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Regulation of Railway Rates: Hearings Before the Committee on ..., Volume 5

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 1170 pages
...court said that there were three obvious and dissimilar courses which the Congress might have pursued. Congress might itself prescribe the rates ; or it...which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to-wit, that rates must be reasonable. The court declared that there is nothing in the act fixing the...
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Hearings: Duties and Powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Hearings ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1905 - 332 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates; or it might...subject to regulations and restrictions, as well as to the rule which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to wit, that rates must be reasonable....
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American Railroad Rates

Walter Chadwick Noyes - 1905 - 294 pages
...reference to the matter of rates. There were three obvious and dissimilar courses open for consideration. Congress might itself prescribe the rates ; or it...subject to regulations and restrictions, as well as to the rule which is as old as the existence of common carriers, to wit : That rates must be reasonable."...
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