Argument Before the Committee on Commerce of the Senate of the United States; In Opposition to the Reagan Bill, for the Regulation of Inter-State ... Washington, Tuesday, February 11, 1879 - 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.1879 Excerpt: ... within the limits of the State of New York, and amenable in this regard only to the laws of that State and those of trade. Its eastern terminus is at New York, and whether that city is reached via its Harlem or Hudson River divisions south of Troy or Albany, both of those divisions are also in the same State. It has Hudson River termini for summer river traffic at Albany, and at Athens, also within the State. Its western termini are all within the state at Suspension and International Bridges and Buffalo. Its principal competitors, forming a parallel water-way for its entire length between New York and Lake Erie, and exempted, as before shown, from the operations of this act, are the Hudson River and the Erie Canal, and both of those free rivals are entirely within the State's geographical or legislative limits. Its routes to and from Lake Ontario, both by its own and connecting lines, which control or influence at different seasons of the year the commerce of New York City with Canada, via that lake, are all within the State. Its rates between all the points named and those intermediate are all, therefore, made, offered, accepted, collected, and rebated, changed, or enforced within the State. Here, then, is one of the most powerful and influential railway companies of the world, and aside from coal, the largest miscellaneous tonnage carrier of our country, uniting, via its line at Buffalo, the domestic and foreign commerce of the great lakes with the port of largest traffic in the Union, solely by its own rails or by the use of a connecting river, second only, as a tonnage highway, to the Mississippi River; and that railway company is, by the conceded language of the report, by National law, by State law, by custom, and by equity, upon all its traffic not ...
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