Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays

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H. Holt and Company, 1886 - 429 páginas
 

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Página 425 - shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. And the General Assembly shall, from time to time, pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of
Página 223 - that, when Pocahontas came to England, he wrote for her a sort of letter of introduction to the Queen, or, in his own words, “a little booke to this effect to the Queen, an abstract whereof followeth.” “Some ten yeeres agoe, being in Virginia and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their
Página 419 - to reasonable conditions for the general advantage, or to retain such power over it, that the profits of the monopoly may at least be obtained for the public. This applies to the case of a road, a canal, or a railway. These are always in a great degree practical monopolies; and a government which concedes such
Página 419 - There are many cases in which the agency, of whatever nature, by which a service is performed, is certain from the nature of the case, to be virtually single, in which a practical monopoly, with all the power it confers of taxing the community, cannot be prevented from existing
Página 425 - erty, or franchises with any other railroad corporation owning a parallel or competing line § 12. “Railways heretofore constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed, in this State, are hereby declared public highways,
Página 331 - government, — and we must all set our faces against any proposition like the present, except as a temporary expedient rendered imperative by the exigency of the hour. ... . Others may doubt if the exigency is sufficiently imperative, but the Secretary of the Treasury does not doubt. ... . Reluctantly, painfully, I consent that
Página 424 - governments do so, when any such exist. The Illinois Constitution deserves to be hailed as a great advance towards the realization of this idea. The framers of this instrument, when they came to dealing with railways, provided for their regulation these articles, among others : — ARTICLE XI. CORPORATIONS. § 1. “No corporation shall be created by special laws, or its charter
Página 68 - on the 1st of July, 1868, the date when Drew and his associates had left it, to $57,766,300 on the 24th of October of the same year, or by two hundred and thirty-five thousand shares in four months.* This, too, had been done without consultation with the board of directors, and with
Página 53 - hours of convalescence to the task of cultivating a thorough understanding between himself and the members of the legislature. A strange legislative episode occurred at this time, which for a day or two threatened to thwart Mr. Gould's operations, but in the end materially facilitated them. All through March the usual sensational charges had
Página 90 - so far as in them lay, turned back the wheels of progress and reduced the America of the nineteenth century to the level of the France of the sixteenth. “The advocates and judges of our times find bias enough in all causes to accommodate them to what they themselves think fit What one

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