Transportation Act 1920

Considers legislation to restrict ICC jurisdiction in matters related to Federal regulation of intrastate transportation rates.

This book gives the legislative history of the Transportation Act of 1920, which was an attempt to solve both the short and the long term problems of a financially beleagured railroad system.

Excerpt from The Transportation Act, 1920 It is my purpose to consider with such brevity as is consistent with clearness some phases of the Transportation Act, I shall confine myself in the main to those parts of it concerning which there are differences of opinion. The present political situation in Iowa makes it necessary to submit a preliminary observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.