Railway Legislation

Author : H. T. Newcomb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656149681
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Proposed Radical Railway Legislation written by H. T. Newcomb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Proposed Radical Railway Legislation: An Address Delivered Before the Faculty and Students of the University of Missouri, October 20, 1905 That there should be favoritism in the charges for rail way service is intolerable; it is, also, as contrary to the law of the land as that there shall be murder or theft. But social order is still interrupted by occasional larcenies and malicious homicides, and there is no evidence that the law against rebates is more frequently violated than those which forbid other offenses. Yet if any one can suggest a modification of the present law that will more effectually protect the public against the direct or indirect preferment of one shipper over another, through rebates or other con cessions from the published schedules of charges, the sug gestion will become, promptly and without opposition from any railway officer, a part of the Federal statute law. Public antipathy to rebates ought not, however, to be used to further the enactment of legislation having no bear ing upon that subject. To confer rate-making power upon the Interstate Commerce Commission could in no way hinder the payment of rebates; it would, on the contrary, make illegal concessions from the published schedules the only means of approximating that elasticity in railway charges which is essential to the upbuilding of industry. 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.