Author : Judge Peter S
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ISBN 13 : 9781332196036
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Book Synopsis A Simple and Sure Solution of the Transportation Problem (Classic Reprint) by : Judge Peter S
Download or read book A Simple and Sure Solution of the Transportation Problem (Classic Reprint) written by Judge Peter S and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Simple and Sure Solution of the Transportation Problem The Esch-Townsend Bill, which provided for the placing in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to name a new freight rate found by the Commission to be unjustly excessive or unreasonable, and which passed the House of Representatives last winter, is dead. It died when the Fifty-ninth Congress expired in March, 1905. It was an ill-considered and unwise measure, and suited no one. If it had passed Congress it would have been of no possible help to shippers. Under a mistaken impression, and as it was the only measure before the country at the time, it was indorsed by some shippers, but was vigorously opposed by other shippers and consignees and by the entire railroad world. Had it passed, the railroads would have fought it on constitutional grounds, if on no other, and it would have been years before the question of its constitutionality alone was settled. When nothing better offered, Freight, The Shippers' Forum, as the recognized mouthpiece of the great manufacturing and shipping public of the United States, advocated legislation along the lines of the Quarles-Cooper Bill (in some of its provisions similar to the Esch-Townsend Bill), but as there is no chance of such legislation being enacted, it is now advocating the adoption of the plan put forth recently by Judge Peter S. Grosscup to settle the transportation problem, as Freight is convinced that this plan will actually give immediate relief to shippers, and will entirely do away with the protracted and fruitless hearings before the Commission, which now make the administration of the Interstate Commerce Law practically ineffectual. In other words, the Grosscup plan is a short cut to justice. The proposition briefly is this: Create a transportation department of the Government, headed by a live, aggressive man, and give to this secretary or commissioner the best assistants (some of them taken from the railroad ranks) the country can afford. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
