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... Shreveport & Pacific Ry . Co .. 4,999,300 299,634 5.99 Houston East & West Texas Ry . Co ... 1,920,000 234,199 12.20 Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Ry . Co. 757,000 171,619 22.67 Colorado & Wyoming Ry . Co ... 100,000 162,636 162.64 ...
... Shreveport & Pacific Ry . Co .. 4,999,300 299,634 5.99 Houston East & West Texas Ry . Co ... 1,920,000 234,199 12.20 Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs Ry . Co. 757,000 171,619 22.67 Colorado & Wyoming Ry . Co ... 100,000 162,636 162.64 ...
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... Shreveport Case , which is now being followed by the litigation in Texas , growing out of injunction issued by the three - judge District Court of the United States against the enforce- ment of the State Railroad Commission rates . This ...
... Shreveport Case , which is now being followed by the litigation in Texas , growing out of injunction issued by the three - judge District Court of the United States against the enforce- ment of the State Railroad Commission rates . This ...
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... Shreveport situations , involving alleged discrimination between interstate rates and intra- state rates . However , applying the same test to the issue of railroad securi- ties I have long since reached the conclusion that authority ...
... Shreveport situations , involving alleged discrimination between interstate rates and intra- state rates . However , applying the same test to the issue of railroad securi- ties I have long since reached the conclusion that authority ...
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... SHREVEPORT CASES The principal motive which actuated the sovereign states in sending delegates to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States is not mentioned in the Preamble to that instru- ment but is found in ...
... SHREVEPORT CASES The principal motive which actuated the sovereign states in sending delegates to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States is not mentioned in the Preamble to that instru- ment but is found in ...
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... Shreveport , Louisiana , to specified destinations in Texas and the carriers were required to " abstain from exacting any higher rates for the transportation of any article " from Shreveport to Dal- las , Texas and points intermediate ...
... Shreveport , Louisiana , to specified destinations in Texas and the carriers were required to " abstain from exacting any higher rates for the transportation of any article " from Shreveport to Dal- las , Texas and points intermediate ...
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Page 240 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.
Page 147 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 243 - ... that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government, all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws, of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, etc., are component parts of this mass.
Page 145 - The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency shall be ineligible during the time they are in office and for two years thereafter to hold any office, position or employment in any member bank.
Page 272 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Page 243 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government, all of which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves.
Page 272 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 272 - The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable.
Page 38 - Commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carrier or carriers, and with or without notice, hearing, or the making or filing of a report...
Page 200 - ... necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public, or any franchise or permit or any right thereunder...