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Excerpt from An Analysis of the Moon Bill: Why It Does Not Offer a Just or Practicable Basis of Payment to the Railroads for Carrying the Mails
The Moon bill would confer upon the Postmaster General, who is of necessity interested in the reduction of the postal deficit, very broad authority to determine what pay the railroads shall be allowed for carrying the mails, and for all other services required by his Department. Coupled with this grant of the rate-making power would be a penal provision of great severity under which any railroad would be fined $5000 per day for refusing to perform any service the Postmaster General might demand for whatever he might elect to pay. The bill contains no provision by which an appeal might be taken from any specific order or decision so made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
