...owned 'Sec. 1. (1) The provisions of this chapter shall apply to common carriers engaged in— (b) The transportation of oil or other commodity, except water and except natural or artificial gas, by pipe line, or partly by pipe line and partly by railroad or by water— From one State ... to any other...

...United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 1. (As amended June 29, 1906.) That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persona engaged in the transportation of carriers ana oil or other commodity, except water and except...

...bill came from the House its first section, defining common carriers, was amended by the Senate to apply to "any corporation or any person or persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines," thus bringing, we are glad to say, the oil industry of the country under the Commission's control....

...1910,15 Section 1 of the original act was amended to read as follows: "Section 1. That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any...railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, and to tele(14) Act of Feb. 4, 1887, Ch. 104, 24 Statutes at Large, 379; Act of March 2, 1889, Ch....

...Act. The material portion of the act relied upon reads as follows : "Section 1. That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any...pipe lines and partly by railroad or partly by pipe lilies and partly by water, and to telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless)...

...heretofore amended, is hereby now amended so as to read as follows : " 'Section 1. That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any...pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe and partly by water, and to telegraph, telephone, and cable companies (whether wire or wireless) engaged...

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...common carriers is consistently followed throughout the act. Under section 1 the provisions of the act "apply to any corporation or any person or persons...pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe hues and partly by water, and to telegraph, telephone, 1 SECTION 1. That the provisions of this act...

...June 18, 1910, defines what carriers are subject to its provisions as follows: "That the provisions' of this act shall apply to any corporation or any...commodity, except water and except natural or artificial giis by means of pipe lines, * * * and to any commou carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation...

...named and specified. Learned counsel for the petitioner quotes from it as follows : That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any...engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity. He stops the quotation at that point, not observing the intimate connection of that part of the sentence...