...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...

...the original act was amended to read as follows: "Section 1. That the provisions of this Act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, and to...

...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 persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall...

...portion of the act relied upon reads as follows : "Section 1. That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad or partly by pipe lilies and partly by water, and to...

...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 person or persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly .by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe and partly by water, and to telegraph,...

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...language of section 1 of the act to regulate commerce, which reads: The provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines, or partly by pipe lines and partly by railroad, or partly by pipe lines and partly by water, who shall...

...defines what carriers are subject to its provisions as follows: "That the provisions' of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons...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...

...Congress extending the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission over persons and corporations "engaged in the transportation of oil or other commodity,...natural or artificial gas, by means of pipe lines," and the court decided that the Standard Oil Company was subject to that provision as a public carrier,...

...Learned counsel for the petitioner quotes from it as follows : That the provisions of this act shall apply to any corporation or any person or persons...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...