and-short-haul

Updated: May 14, 2025

As a member of the select committee on Interstate Commerce, Senator Platt rendered much valuable assistance in the investigation and in the passage of the Act of 1887, although he was almost induced finally to oppose it on account of the anti-pooling and the long- and-short-haul sections.

Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom - Fifty Years of Public Service : Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois