Railway ProblemsWilliam Zebina Ripley Ginn, 1913 - 830 páginas |
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... eastern capital . As the years went on and there proved to be no possi- bility of completing the roads or even of procuring the money necessary to keep them in repair , it grew plain that the state must get rid of them . One , the ...
... eastern capital . As the years went on and there proved to be no possi- bility of completing the roads or even of procuring the money necessary to keep them in repair , it grew plain that the state must get rid of them . One , the ...
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... eastern capital and eastern control , it was practically certain to succeed . Filled with this conviction Brooks , then twenty - six years old , set forth in the winter of 1845-46 to make the acquaintance of men of means in Boston and ...
... eastern capital and eastern control , it was practically certain to succeed . Filled with this conviction Brooks , then twenty - six years old , set forth in the winter of 1845-46 to make the acquaintance of men of means in Boston and ...
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... eastern capi- talists of proved honesty and ability . Advantages such as these did not suffer when presented by a man like Forbes , who had vision , will , and above all the faculty of " pitching in " ; and as the six months allowed for ...
... eastern capi- talists of proved honesty and ability . Advantages such as these did not suffer when presented by a man like Forbes , who had vision , will , and above all the faculty of " pitching in " ; and as the six months allowed for ...
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... eastern capitalists to buy land for which he was the agent . The " wet prairie , " within a mile of the hotel , he offered at $ 1.25 an acre . " Sheltered by our absurd prejudices against land , " wrote Forbes thirty - five years later ...
... eastern capitalists to buy land for which he was the agent . The " wet prairie , " within a mile of the hotel , he offered at $ 1.25 an acre . " Sheltered by our absurd prejudices against land , " wrote Forbes thirty - five years later ...
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... eastern railways . " 1 By the year 1850 eastern financiers were fully awake to these marvellous opportunities for the investment of capital . Their own resources being still inadequate , they again appealed to Europe . " As money seems ...
... eastern railways . " 1 By the year 1850 eastern financiers were fully awake to these marvellous opportunities for the investment of capital . Their own resources being still inadequate , they again appealed to Europe . " As money seems ...
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adjustment Alabama Boston car loads carriers Central territory cents per 100 cents per hundred charge Charleston Chicago Cincinnati class rates Commissioner commodities complainants contract cotton Court Credit Mobilier Cumberland river Danville defendant directors discrimination distance Drew Duluth east eastern seaboard Eau Claire effect Erie Eufaula Evansville export rate fact favor fixed flour freight Georgia haul higher hundred pounds I. C. C. Rep Ibid interest intermediate points Interstate Commerce Commission jobbers Judge Kansas City Kansas field lines Louis Louisville & Nashville Lynchburg Michigan miles Minneapolis Mississippi river Mississippi river crossings Missouri river Missouri River Cities Montgomery Norfolk numbered classes Ohio river Omaha operation Orleans Pacific Coast Pensacola Pensacola & Atlantic ports question rail rates Railway & Steamship reasonable reduction road Savannah shipments shippers South Southern Railway Southern territory tariff tion traffic transportation Troy Twin Cities Union Pacific Railroad unreasonable Vanderbilt water competition western wheat York
Pasajes populares
Página 721 - We do not say that there may not be other matters to be regarded in estimating the value of the property.
Página 722 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Página 171 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Página 607 - We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public.
Página 711 - This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretence of regulating fares and freights, the state cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward : neither can It do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due process of law.
Página 545 - ... Any corporation may purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by any other corporation or corporations of this or any other state, and while owner of such stock may exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon.
Página 596 - If the company is deprived of the power of charging reasonable rates for the use of its property, and such deprivation takes place in the absence of an investigation by judicial machinery, it is deprived of the lawful use of its property, and thus, in substance and effect, of the property itself, without due process of law, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 376 - That upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property ; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section of this act.
Página 596 - ... its property, and such deprivation takes place in the absence of an investigation by judicial machinery, it is deprived of the lawful use of its property, and thus, in substance and effect, of the property itself, without due process of law and in violation of the Constitution of the United States ; and in so far as it is thus deprived, while other persons are permitted to receive reasonable profits upon their invested capital, the company is deprived of the equal protection of the laws.
Página 594 - Under pretense of regulating fares and freights, the State cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due process of law.5 1 CM & St.