"Interstate Commerce Commission" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Department of Justice, of the Bureau of Corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and of the Interstate Commerce Commission, looking to effective cooperation of these agencies, is needed to secure a more rapid and certain enforcement of the laws affecting interstate railroads ...
— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various
... involving "the long haul and the short haul" and whether Congress should attempt to legislate as to transportation within a single state, were debated, and no problems of legislation have been more difficult. The Interstate Commerce Commission organized under these laws was invested with extraordinary powers and its action has been beneficial to the public, but in many cases has seriously crippled many railroad corporations, and ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman |
