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... The Quarterly Journal of Economics - Pàgina 34editat per - 1907Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Railroad Commission of Kentucky - 1910 - 576 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1897 - 550 pàgines
...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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1900 - 502 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1905 - 1344 pàgines
...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.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 1170 pàgines
...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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - 1905 - 322 pàgines
...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.... | |
| Walter Chadwick Noyes - 1905 - 294 pàgines
...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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