Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF OCTOBER 24, 1889.Question: Resolved that the government should take steps to assume the ownership and management of the railways...
...Government ownership and management will remedy these evils for: 1. It is more economical-Harper 73, Jeans p. 460. 2. It will stop speculation and mitigate crises. 2. It will prevent discrimination. 4. It will do away with private monopoly. 5. It will decrease accidents-eans p. 461. 6. It will stop bad and varying legislation...
...American shipping interest can be restored without the cost of subsidies by a revision of the navigation law; primarily, by a revision in favor of the free purchase and ownership of vessels for foreign trade.- Well's Our Merchant Marine pp. 95-128; North American Review, vol. 142, pp. 481-484; Codman in Shipbuilders and Commerce phamphlets 4 and 2; Atlantic...
...commerce but it does not touch some forms, and this greatly complicates the difficulties which attend the enforcement of the act. But if congress were disposed to regulate all transportation, decided obstacles would be encountered. In the first place railroads are in private, and for the most part separate ownership. A uniform mileage rate would, therefore, not be just; but property rights must be protected. A second obstacle is found in the principals which govern the management of railroads. These are inherently wrong, but cannot be changed by the stroke of the pen. The principal purpose of the interstate commerce...
...Government ownership of railroads implies other things. Government management is not economical and would be injurious to industrial and commercial interests...