...provisions of this act shall apply to common carriers engaged in * * * the transportation of * * * property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment * * * to any place in the United States * * * from a foreign...

...provisions of this part shall apply to common carriers engaged in — (a) The transportation of*** property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad...under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment; ***. (Emphasis added.) Moreover, section 6(3) of the act provides...

...this : The first section provides " that the provisions of this Act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers...railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water," when the traffic is interstatn. The other sections uniformly refer to " any common carrier subject to the...

...February 4, 1887. The provision of the law applies to " any common carrier engaged in the transportation wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly...under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment from one State or Territory of the United States to another,"...

...shall apply only to the carriage and transportation by such company or companies of passengers and property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad...partly by water (when both are used under a common management, control or arrangement), from one place or station to another place or station, both being...

...the only common carriers to which the provisions of the act apply (vide section 1) are those engaged in the transportation of passengers or property "wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water." And certainly the petitioner is engaged in transportation neither by rail nor by...

...parenthesis may be eliminated from the statute. The terms of the act now apply to "any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad from one state or territory in the United States or the District of Columbia to any other state or...

...this : The first section provides " that the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad THEACTor partly by railroad and partly by water," when the traffic is interstate. The other sections...

...Paragraph (1) of section 1 of act states that provisions of the act apply to common carriers engaged in transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad or partly by railroad and partly by water. Neither that paragraph nor any other provides for service wholly by motor vehicle...

...of this part;" (2) section l(l)(a) provides "That the provisions of this part shall apply to common carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, * * *;" and (3) since the considered movement is not wholly by railroad, section 3(4) has no application...