Hepburn Act
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The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that expanded the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission and gave it the power to set maximum railroad rates. This led to the discontinu
This illustration entitled, "Hepburn Rate Bill", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on May 15, 1906, depicts the Hepburn Bill, which was strongly endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt, finally getting past the Senate on it's way to the House and showing the beatings it had taken by all of the amendments added in an attempt to block it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Previously serving for six months as vice president under William McKinley, Roosevelt became president af
Hepburn Act
…cover bridges, terminals, ferries, railroad sleeping cars, express companies and oil pipelines. In the President's fifth State of the Union message, Theodore Roosevelt called for the creation of some legislation which would grant powers to control prices of shipping rates. He said: The Hepburn Act was named for its…
Roosevelt in 1904
Roosevelt as a Badlands hunter in 1885
The Asiatic Squadron destroying the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898
Colonel Roosevelt in 1898