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...Gooding "long and short haul" bill was defeated 46-33. Democrats split exactly even, 15 on each side. Most of the eastern Republicans voted against the bill. Republicans for the bill were only 18 in number-Westerners, Radicals, and Senators Couzens, Reed, Wadsworth...
Debated the Gooding "long and short haul" railroad bill...
...Began consideration of the Gooding "long and short haul" bill, which would prevent railroads from cutting their transcontinental freight rates to compete with water-borne freight. ¶ Adopted a resolution for an investigation of the Tariff Commission by a special committee of five Senators (see below...
West Virginia coal fields], so that when labor troubles come in one field they can haul out of the other. When they get it these great interests will be in a position to whipsaw this country...
...wind that blows nobody good. The enactment of prohibition ruined many breweries and distilleries, and even some short-haul railroads which almost exclusively carried their products. On the other hand, it greatly stimulated some new enterprises-particularly those relating to human thirst and its legal gratification...