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The Supreme Court Of the United States has held that it is not discrimination within the meaning of the Interstate Commerce Law to charge the big shipper a rate less than the little shipper; I know the argument on which that is founded, and I appreciate its strength. It is true that it costs less per ton to carry a large bulk than a small bulk. It is true that a less percentage of profit can be reasonably charged to the wholesaler than to the retailer. But these arguments made in behalf Of discrimination miss the mark, miss the whole core of the subject.
In this country there is no such thing as size to a business man.
The man of little size expects to get big. He has a right to get big. He has a right to have the atmosphere of equal Opportunity and equal conditions in which to grow, and excepting, of course, some unit, such as a ton or a car, the charge ought to be the same for the little as for the big shipper.
I say, as _the law now stands on that subject, what is permitted under the law is an unjust thing and ought to be corrected by law.
Now with this law on the subject of rebates, both direct and indirect, and this amendment to the law upon the subject 'of dis crimination, governed by the size Of shipments or the amount that each shipper is giving to the railroads yearly, it seems to me that the present law is pretty full and competent to meet. The conditions. I do not believe that we need much new prohibitive legislation. We have on our statute books already ample provision against rebates, except perhaps for some amendments on the subject Of discrimina tion between those who ship on a large scale and those who ship on a small scale. I do not believe we need much, if any, legislation on the subject of reasonableness of rates. The present Interstate Com merce Act in one Of its very first sections provides that all rates shall be reasonable and just. And it seems to me that the present law as it now stands is able to meet the question of the unreasonableness of rates. What is the law as it now stands? Upon a complaint being made to the Circuit Court that a rate is unreasonable the court, if it finds that the rate is unreasonable, may enter an order finding such rate unreasonable, and thereafter the railroad company is not at lib erty to charge that rate.
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The Supreme Court Of the United States has held that it is not discrimination within the meaning of the Interstate Commerce Law to charge the big shipper a rate less than the little shipper; I know the argument on which that is founded, and I appreciate its strength. It is true that it costs less per ton to carry a large bulk than a small bulk. It is true that a less percentage of profit can be reasonably charged to the wholesaler than to the retailer. But these arguments made in behalf Of discrimination miss the mark, miss the whole core of the subject.
In this country there is no such thing as size to a business man.
The man of little size expects to get big. He has a right to get big. He has a right to have the atmosphere of equal Opportunity and equal conditions in which to grow, and excepting, of course, some unit, such as a ton or a car, the charge ought to be the same for the little as for the big shipper.
I say, as _the law now stands on that subject, what is permitted under the law is an unjust thing and ought to be corrected by law.
Now with this law on the subject of rebates, both direct and indirect, and this amendment to the law upon the subject 'of dis crimination, governed by the size Of shipments or the amount that each shipper is giving to the railroads yearly, it seems to me that the present law is pretty full and competent to meet. The conditions. I do not believe that we need much new prohibitive legislation. We have on our statute books already ample provision against rebates, except perhaps for some amendments on the subject Of discrimina tion between those who ship on a large scale and those who ship on a small scale. I do not believe we need much, if any, legislation on the subject of reasonableness of rates. The present Interstate Com merce Act in one Of its very first sections provides that all rates shall be reasonable and just. And it seems to me that the present law as it now stands is able to meet the question of the unreasonableness of rates. What is the law as it now stands? Upon a complaint being made to the Circuit Court that a rate is unreasonable the court, if it finds that the rate is unreasonable, may enter an order finding such rate unreasonable, and thereafter the railroad company is not at lib erty to charge that rate.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Esch-Townsend Bill, which provided for the placing in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to name a new freight rate found by the Commission to be unjustly excessive or unreasonable, and which passed the House of Representatives last winter, is dead. It died when the Fifty-ninth Congress expired in March, 1905. It was an ill-considered and unwise measure, and suited no one. If it had passed Congress it would have been of no possible help to shippers. Under a mistaken impression, and as it was the only measure before the country at the time, it was indorsed by some shippers, but was vigorously opposed by other shippers and consignees and by the entire railroad world. Had it passed, the railroads would have fought it on constitutional grounds, if on no other, and it would have been years before the question of its constitutionality alone was settled.
When nothing better offered, Freight, The Shippers' Forum, as the recognized mouthpiece of the great manufacturing and shipping public of the United States, advocated legislation along the lines of the Quarles-Cooper Bill (in some of its provisions similar to the Esch-Townsend Bill), but as there is no chance of such legislation being enacted, it is now advocating the adoption of the plan put forth recently by Judge Peter S. Grosscup to settle the transportation problem, as Freight is convinced that this plan will actually give immediate relief to shippers, and will entirely do away with the protracted and fruitless hearings before the Commission, which now make the administration of the Interstate Commerce Law practically ineffectual. In other words, the Grosscup plan is a short cut to justice. The proposition briefly is this:
Create a transportation department of the Government, headed by a live, aggressive man, and give to this secretary or commissioner the best assistants (some of them taken from the railroad ranks) the country can afford.
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