...House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers...from one State •or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District...

...act. defined in section forty-six hundred and twelve, Revised Statutes of the United States, engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water, for a continuous carriage or shipment, from one State or Territory of the United States,...

...question is only within the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission when it is a transportation partly by railroad and partly by water when both are...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment; and therefore that the subject-matter in question is left within...

...The first section of the act declares that its provisions shall apply to any common carrier " engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly...under a common control, management or arrangement, for a carriage or shipment from one place or station to another, both being within the State of Minnebota."...

...other roads. The inter-State commerce act applies, by its own terms, "to any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly...under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment" not " wholly within one State;" and all charges for any snch...

...included within its provisions only "common carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers and property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water, when both are used." It has been variously amend(9) Primrose v. Western Union Tel. Co., 154 US 1; Hart v. Pennsylvania R....

...owned by the I>:high Coal and Navigation Company, a corporation which is not a common carrier, engaged In the transportation of passengers or property, wholly by railroad or partly by railroad or partly by water. The railroad la leased by its owner to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey,...

...act (Act Feb. 4, 1887, c. 104, § 1, 24 Stat. 379 [US Comp. St 1901, p. 3154]) reads: "The provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers...from one state or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to another state or territory of the United States, or the District of...

...24 Stats, at Large, 379, as amended) provides that the provisions of such act shall apply to common carriers engaged in "the transportation of passengers...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment." The fourth subdivision of the same section provides that :...

...commerce by railroad," within the meaning of the Safety Appliance Act, a railroad must be "engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly...under a common control, management, or arrangement for the continuous carriage or shipment" from one state to another. The court below, taking the view...