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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports (Volume 3 ); Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... gress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances. The reasons for exclusive regulation by Congress are set forth in many cases. In the case of The State Freight Tax, 15 Wall. 279, it is stated in substance that whenever the subjects affected by the regulation of Congress are in their nature national, or admit of one uniform system or plan of regulation, they are within the exclusive authority of Congress. That transportation of passengers or merchandise through a State, or from one State to another, is of this nature, and that it is of national importance, in order to prevent oppressive State interference, and guard against commercial embarrassment, that over that subject there should be but one regulating power. The commerce not subject to National regulation has frequently been denned. In one case it was said: "The rule that the regulation of commerce which is confined exclusively within the jurisdiction and territory of a State and does not affect other nations or States or the Indian tribes, that is to say, the purely internal commerce of a State, belongs exclusively to the State, is as well settled as that the regulation of commerce which does affect other nations or States or the Indian tribes belongs to Congress." (Tel. Co. v. Texas, 105 U. S. 466.) And in another case the court said: "The internal commerce of a State--that is, the commerce which is wholly confined within its limits--is as much under its control as foreign commerce or interstate commerce is under the.control of the-General Government." (Sands v. Manistee, fcc. 123 U. S. 295.) In the elaborate report of the Senate Committee, made in January, 1886, reference is made to some of the foregoing cases, and the case of Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v...
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