Publications of the American Economic Association, Volumen2

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The Association, 1888
Includes the Papers and proceedings of the annual meeting.
 

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Página 56 - The law is confined to State commerce, or such interstate commerce as directly affects the people of Wisconsin. Until Congress acts in reference to the relations of this company to interstate commerce, it is certainly within the power of Wisconsin to regulate its fares, etc., so far as they are of domestic concern.
Página 56 - The warehouses of these plaintiffs in error are situated and their business carried on exclusively within the limits of the State of Illinois. They are used as instruments by those engaged in state as well as those engaged in interstate commerce, but they are no more necessarily a part of commerce itself than the dray or the cart by which, but for them, grain would be transferred from one railroad station to another. Incidentally they may become connected with interstate commerce, but not necessarily...
Página 45 - ... 4. That unjustifiable discriminations are constantly made between individuals in the rates charged for like service under similar circumstances. 5. That improper discriminations are made between articles of freight and branches of business of a like character, and between different quantities of the same class of freight. 6. That unreasonable discriminations are made between localities similarly situated. 7. That the effect of the prevailing policy of railroad management...
Página 44 - Second, to plank, pave, or macadamize the entire •length of the street used by their track, between the rails, and for two feet on each side thereof, and between the tracks, if there be more than- one, and to keep the same constantly in repair, flush with the street, and with good crossings.
Página 56 - ... within the limits of the State of Illinois. They are used as instruments by those engaged in state as well as those engaged in interstate commerce, but they are no more necessarily a part of commerce itself than the dray or the cart by which, but for them, grain would be transferred from one railroad station to another. Incidentally they may become connected with interstate commerce, but not necessarily so. Their regulation is a thing of domestic concern, and, certainly, until Congress acts in...
Página 46 - ... such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and we shall enlarge ourselves in the manner thereof. The intercourse now being great betwixt the English and the Netherlands (increased of late, since king Edward married the daughter of the earl of Hainault...
Página 89 - States;) and all moneys loaned or invested in any other state, and all other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of the state...

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