The Anti-Monopoly Party was an American political party formed on May the 14th 1884 at Chicago, demanding economical government, equitable laws, including an Interstate Commerce law, laws establishing labour bureaus and providing industrial arbitration, direct vote for senators, graduated income tax, payment of the national debt as it matures, and 'fostering-care' for agriculture, and denouncing the tariff and the granting of land to corporations. The Anti-Monopoly Party later joined with the Green-Back Labour party to form the 'People's Party'. Research Anti-Monopoly Party
In the USA in 1884 Representative Reagan, of Texas, submitted a bill to the House for the regulation of interstate commerce, and about the same time a similar bill was proposed in the Senate. Both bills failed. Thereafter yearly debates took place concerning these and similar bills, until, February the 4th, 1887, the Reagan bill was finally passed and approved. It provided for the appointment of a commission, consisting of five persons, who saw to it that railway and other such companies established and preserved a just and uniform rate of transportation. This particularly affected such corporations as controled continuous lines from one State to another, either by land or by water, or both. The law was very effective in preventing gross discriminations in charges for freight and the issuing of passes. Research Interstate Commerce Law
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