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Debate of April 19, 1894.Question: "Resolved, That the bill before the Massachusetts legislature, granting to wns the privilege of establishing the Norwegian system of controlling the liquor traffic, should become...
...question whether or not the row of elms on Harvard street, fronting the college yard, should be removed, was discussed at length by the Board of Aldermen of Cambridge last night. These trees were formerly in the college yard but the increased traffic on Harvard street necessitated the change which now exists. It is now clained that public necessity demands their removal and this question, although debated at length, still remains unsettled. A measure was proposed which if adopted will save the trees and also remedy any inconvenience which the narrowness of Harvard street may cause. This plan provides...
...necessity for pooling.-(a) Serious rate wars have ceased since passage of Interstate Commerce Law-(b) The discriminations which pooling is supposed to prevent are prohibition by the I. S. Com. Law.-(c) There are other ways of avoiding excessive competition: Forum XIII 745 (Aug. 1892)-Western Traffic Association...
...many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would be beneficial to the railways and is wanted by them, is shown by the fact that they acknowledge that the legislation thus far has brought about an increase in earnings, an increase in traffic and a general improvement. Mr. Depew and Mr. Ingalls, both prominent railway presidents, express the sentiments of most men of authority in railroad business in acknowledging that the public and the railway need legislation that shall obtain complete control over these vast corporations, these vast concentrations of capital...
...money, they must make the road a success. Hence competition has become a life and death struggle, and the roads have resorted to underhand means. But the railroads themselves, for their own salvation, introduced a system of pooling which, by giving each road an assurance of just so much traffic, removed the necessity for reductions, and the evils consequent upon these reductions...