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First Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: December 1, 1887 (Classic Reprint)

By Commission, U. S. Interstate Commerce

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First Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: December 1, 1887 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission<br/><br/>With the application of steam as a motive power for propelling ves sels the conditions were immediately, to a considerable extent, changed. A11 impetus was given to the internal commerce of the country which promised immense results, and which made immediate and imperative demand for other and very different highways to those which aecom modated the pack horses and heavy wagons of the early traders and settlers. But even then the circumstances were favorable to a prolonga tion of State control. The first improved highways were turnpikes the next in grade were cs; but the highways by water as well as the highways by land were provided for by the States. The General Gov ernment made some appropriations for cs where they were needed as improvements in existin g navigation, but the great artificial channels of water transportation were State creations. Such was the case with the Erie C, which during the period when emigration to the wilder ness was greatest, and when improvement in the new Territories was most rapid, constituted the most important of all the highways con meeting the interior with the sea board. Such also were the cs which were constructed to connect the Delaware with the Hudson, the Chesa peake with the Ohio, the waters of Lake Erie with the Ohio at Ports mouth, at Cincinnati, and at Evansville, the waters of Lake Michigan with the Mississippi, and many others now almost forgotten, but which were of great temporary importance and value. As the States constructed these great interstate highways, it was not unnatural that they should be left ln charge of the regulation of trade upon them, especially as no complaint was made that their regulations were unjust, or that they discriminated unfairly as against the citizens or the business of other States.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2018-04-29
Publication Date:
2018-04-29
Publisher:
FB&C LTD
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0365905445
Weight:
340 g
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