 | Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (U.S.). Conference - 1904 - 212 pages
...Chief Justice Waite has said : " The powers granted are not confined to those known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and steamboat to the railroad... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - 1904 - 174 pages
...granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new devel1 M, < .ill v. California, 136 US 104; Lottery Case, 188 US 321 (1903). » Cooper 7'. Ferguson,... | |
 | 1904 - 1032 pages
..."commerce," is not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce in use when the Constitution was adopted. They keep pace with the progress of the country, and...adapt ¡ themselves to the new developments of time »nd circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stagecoach, from the sailing vessel... | |
 | American Bar Association. Committee on Insurance Law - 1905 - 36 pages
...are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service, known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...to the new developments of time and circumstances." (Pensacola Telegraph Co. vs. Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 US 1.) Mr. Justice Miller said that the... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1905 - 404 pages
...granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...to the new developments of time and circumstances." There are authorities sustaining the contention that such an interpretation is too broad. If it has... | |
 | Harry Turner Newcomb - 1906 - 80 pages
...are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service, known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and and steamboat to the railroad, and from the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively... | |
 | Bernard Moses - 1906 - 458 pages
...granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted; but they keep pace with...adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstance. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1906 - 654 pages
...granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with...progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new devel21 opments of time and circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach,... | |
 | Erich Herr - 1906 - 194 pages
...establish post offices and post-roads, provide for the construction of competing lines. These powers keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of times and circumstances. They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage-coach, from the sailing... | |
 | 1907 - 402 pages
...Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 96 US p. 9, it was s»id by Chief Justice WATTE: " They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage-coach,...sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and steamboat to the railroad, from the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively... | |
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The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of... 
