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Show GOVERNMENT - REGULATION OF RAILROADS (Extract from address by Charles Murphy Candler, Chairman of tho ltallroad Commission of Georgia, bo-roro bo-roro tho fecbool of Commorco, University Uni-versity of Georgia.) Passing of State Itegiilatlon. Tho great percentage of transportation transport-ation In this country Is now In Interstate Inter-state commorco. Whether ontlroly pleasing to us of tho South who havo for so long ' uphold In theory, and tried to uphold In practlco, tho doc-trlno doc-trlno of rights of tho Individual states, It appears to mo moro and moro that tho Held of regulation loft to tho states Is surely and gradually being narrowed, and possibly tho only on-ly very solid substance being left to tho states Is In tho exorcise of what aro described and recognized as "pollco" powors. As our sectional Interests and communications becomo closer and moro Intlmato, stato linos scorn to bo growing less plainly marked and mero business considerations moro controlling than political doctrlno or theory. Because- of tho silent Influence of business associations and Intimacies, thoro Is today nearer a nation than a union of sovereign states, and tho Hamilton theory Is unquestionably ascondant over tho Jofforsonlan. As illustrating tho truth of these observations, I beg to call your at-Jonson, at-Jonson, Brlgham City. adv. 12-30. tho opinion of tho Supremo Court of the Unltod States, written by Mr. Justlco Hughes, in what is known as tho Shrovoport-Toxas cases: "Whorovor tho Intorstato and Intrastate In-trastate transactions of carriers aro so related that tho government of tho ono involves tho control of tho other, It is, Congress, and not tho state, that la ontltlod to prescrlbo tho final and dominant rule. "Tho power to deal with tho relations re-lations botwoon the two kinds of rates (Inter nnd Intra state) ns "a relation, Hos oxcluslvoly with Congress." Con-gress." Congress does not possess "tho authority to regulato tho internal commorco of a stato, as such, but it does possoss tho power to fostor and protect Intorstato commorco, and to tako all measures necessary or appropriate ap-propriate to that end, although In- 1 t i trastato transactions of interstate B carriers may thereby bo controlled. Those who nro familiar with th rT rato adjustment of tho country un- H derstand fully how closely related B In thousands of Instances aro Inter H nnd Intra stato rates, and liovr Ira- I possible, frequently, to deal with the B ono without direct effect on the I C1 othor. Trainc World. I tl |