Report of the Senate Select Committee on Interstate Commerce ; (with appendix) [and Testimony] 49th Cong., 1st sess - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...business of a shipper from a line that has always treated him well, and with the officers of which he was acquainted, and in which road he possibly might be a stockholder--aline which, if his property was lost by collision, would pay him promptly. Mr. Bacon thought the commissioner should have the right to divert that man's property over a bankrupt line which could not pay its operators, and which, if it should so happen that he should have a claim against the line, he would have to whistle for. I think that is contrary to American rights. It so happens that Congress has legislated (I believe it still remains so, unless the Supreme Court has changed it a little) giving the African the right in this coun try to select his hotel, and the right to ride in any car. But if you establish pools you deny the right of Americans to dispose of their property as they please. That is contrary to my civil rights in my business. Perhaps one is the question of property and the other the question of personal rights. THE HORN OF THE DILEMMA. Farther than that it is a bad idea that a good line--one that secures a large business because of its good management, and because of the dispatch with which it handles property--should be obliged to pay over a large part of its earnings. You must take one or the other horn of the dilemma. If you have pools you must allow the commissioner to divert property, or else you must oblige the successful road to pay over a large share of its earnings to the bankrupt road. Third, the workings of these pools have demonstrated that those who are the most pertinacious in maintaining the pools are the first to violate them. It seems to me it involves the pooling of every prominent point in America. We had in operation, and we have yet, what is known ...
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