The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . >. THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE. 107 before them. The volume of testimony published by this com-mittee is a most important document—a compendium of all pre-vious experience in the conduct and regulation of railways. The Act to Regulate Commerce, commonly called the in-terstate commerce law, passed both Houses of Congress in Jan-uary, 1887, and was approved by the President February
The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . >. THE ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE. 107 before them. The volume of testimony published by this com-mittee is a most important document—a compendium of all pre-vious experience in the conduct and regulation of railways. The Act to Regulate Commerce, commonly called the in-terstate commerce law, passed both Houses of Congress in Jan-uary, 1887, and was approved by the President February act was based in great part on the experience of the States,and embraced in a more or less altered form many of those pro-visions of the State laws that were believed to be applicable to in-terstate commerce. As to all regulations not clearly interstate incharacter the law was silent, the purpose being that Congressshould assume the regulation only of those matters with whichState authority w\as incompetent to deal. The law, in fact, dealtchiefly with rates and with the discriminations and other wrongsconnected with rate-making. Extortion was dealt with by a clause forbidding all unjust andunreasona
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