...compliance with the new Illinois constitution of 1870, which required the state legislature to enact laws "for the protection of producers, shippers and receivers of grain and produce." By this statute, warehouses were made quasi-public service corporations. Warehouses of a certain class...

...is stored for a compensation, to be public warehouses, and provided that the general assembly should pass laws for the inspection of grain, for the protection...producers, shippers, and receivers of grain and produce. Pursuant to this constitutional provision the general assembly in 1871 enacted a law which, among other...

...revised their constitution in 1870, saw fit to make it the duty of the general assembly to pass laws " for the protection of producers, shippers, and receivers of grain and produce," (Art. XIII., sec 7), and by sec. ft of the same article, to require all railroad companies receiving...

...the Legislature for the Board of Trade and conferred on the former the power to pass laws to regulate the inspection of grain, "for the protection of producers, shippers and receivers of grain." The Convention thus deprived the Board of Trade of Chicago of its then existing power over the inspection...

...revised their Constitution in 1870,saw fit to make it the duty of the General Assembly to pass laws " for the protection of producers, shippers and receivers of grain and produce, " art. XIII., sec.7; and by sec. 5 of the samearlicle, to require all railroad companies receiving...

...revised their Constitution in 1870, saw fit to make it the duty of the General Assembly to pass laws "for the protection of producers, shippers and receivers of grain and produce," art. XIII., sec. 7 ; and by sec. 5 of the same article, to require all railroad companies receiving...

...result in Illinois violating provisions of its own constitution of 1870 directing "the general assembly (to) pass laws for the inspection of grain, for the...shippers and receivers of grain and produce." The US Department of Agriculture, through its grain division, asserts that the grain industry no longer...

...both warehouses and railroads. The 1870 constitution also specifically authorized the general assembly to "pass laws for the inspection of grain, for the...producers, shippers, and receivers of grain and produce "LM Still, dissatisfaction with grain grading continued. Following a scandal over the manipulation...

...expedient, or to deprive any person of existing common law remedies. Section 7 The General Assembly shall pass laws for the inspection of grain, for the protection...producers, shippers and receivers of grain and produce. References Ames, Charles Edgar. 1969. Pioneering the Union Pacific. New York: Appleton Century Croft....

...under the authority of the Illinois state constitution, which required that the legislature pass laws "for the protection of producers, shippers, and receivers of grain and produce." Not surprisingly, the Granger movement's success caused great concern to investors. The use of political...