Excerpt from The Interstate Commerce Act and Federal Anti-Trust Laws, Including the Sherman Act: The Act Creating the Bureau of Corporations, The Elkins Act, The Act to Expedite Suits in the Federal Courts, Acts Relating to Telegraph, Military, and Post Roads, Safety Appliance Law Affecting Equipment of Cars Used in Interstate CommerceIt was plain that in order to secure the beneficial results of the existing body of legislation, additional legislation was necessary. The President of the United States, hon. Theodore roosevelt, in his message to Congress in December, 1902, referring to the subject declared A fundamental base of civilization is the inviolability of property, but this is in no wise incon sistent with the right of society to regulate the exercise of the artificial powers which it confers upon the own ers of property, under the name of corporate fran chises, in such a way as to prevent the misuse of such powers. Supplemental legislation was urged to ren der the Commerce Act and the Sherman anti-trust Law useful and practical. The result was the impor tant legislation of 1903.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.