 | 1856 - 632 pages
...who have embarked hundreds of millions of money in the greatest enterprises of the age. What we ask is knowledge. "Give us," we say, "a tribunal competent...measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements: delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...who have embarked hundreds of millions of money in the greatest enterprises of the age. What wo ask is, knowledge. " Give us," we say, " a tribunal competent...measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements : delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 576 pages
...millions of money in the greatest enterprises of the age. What we ask is knowledge. " Give us," wo say, " a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion....measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements : delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 784 pages
...Stephenson was elected President of the Civil Engineers. In his inaugural address he said : " What we ask is knowledge. Give us, we say, a tribunal competent...restrictions you think necessary, the whole of the questions appertaining to our system. Let it protect private int^sflr apart from railways ; . . . .... | |
 | Jonathan Periam - 1874 - 584 pages
...President of fhe British Institute of Civil Engineers, he said: " What we ask is knowledge; give us a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion; commit...judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures, and of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements; delegate to it the... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 340 pages
...experience, nor its time, nor its system of procedure is adapted for railway legislation. What we ask is knowledge. Give us, we say, a tribunal competent...form a sound opinion. Commit to that tribunal, with every restriction you think necessary, the whole of the great questions appertaining to our system.... | |
 | Hira Metharam Jagtiani - 1924 - 200 pages
...Chadwick, a witness before the Royal Commission, 1867, p. 857. " What we ask is knowledge. Give us a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Commit...think necessary, the whole of the great questions pertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests from railways. Let it judge of the desirability... | |
 | Hira Metharam Jagtiani - 1924 - 176 pages
...necessary, the whole of the great questions pertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests from railways. Let it judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures, of all proposals for purchase ; . . . delegate to it the power of enforcing such regulations and restrictions as may be... | |
 | 1858 - 602 pages
...who have embarked hundreds of millions of money in the greatest enterprises of the age. ' What we ask is, knowledge. Give us, we say, a tribunal competent...from railways : let it judge of the desirability of initiatory measures, of all proposals for purchases, amalgamations, or other railway arrangements ;... | |
 | Christopher Hamlin - 1998 - 388 pages
...should give way to "a commission . . . of practical men of acknowledged . . . ability. . . . What we ask is knowledge. 'Give us,' we say, 'a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Let it ... judge of the desirability of all initiatory measures . . . delegate to it the power of enforcing... | |
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Give us," we say, " a tribunal competent to form a sound opinion. Commit to that tribunal, with any restrictions you think necessary, the whole of the great questions appertaining to our system. Let it protect private interests apart from railways; let... 