Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 51L.K. Strouse, 1919 - Interstate commerce |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alleged Asso average basis Bonners Ferry bore the charges carloads carriers cars cents per 100 Charges were collected Chicago class rates coal coast group Commission COMMISSIONERS HARLAN commodity rates complainant complainant's damaged Decided October defendant's defendants demurrage destinations Director distance DIVISION east East Liverpool eastern effect entitled to reparation established exceeded extent federal control fifth-class filed fourth section Gibbstown Humboldt Bay increased interstate Iowa joint rates Kans Kansas City less-than-carload loaded Louis Louis-San Francisco Railway lumber miles mills Milwaukee & St minimum Missouri Nebr North Ohio Ohio River Okla Paducah paid and bore plainant points pounds Railroad Company Railway Company rate legally applicable rates applicable rates assailed rates charged reasonable reconsignment reparation Reparation awarded River route of movement rule Santa Fe shipments moved shipped shippers Southern Pacific Spokane Submitted switching charges tariff Tenn territory Texas tion ton-mile traffic transportation unduly prejudicial unreasonable Western Wichita Willamette Valley zone
Popular passages
Page 639 - Whenever a carrier by railroad shall in competition with a water route or routes reduce the rates on the carriage of any species of freight to or from competitive points, it shall not be permitted to increase such rates unless after hearing by the Interstate Commerce Commission it shall be found that such proposed increase rests upon changed conditions other than the elimination of water competition.
Page 635 - ... the flexible limit of judgment which belongs to the power to fix rates, that is, transcended the limits of just classification, and amounted to the creation of favored class or classes whom the carrier was compelled to serve at a loss, to the detriment of other class or classes upon whom the burden of such loss would fall, that such legislation would be...
Page 263 - Government, or relating to the time within which any rights shall accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, it shall be understood and intended that the time shall be the United States standard time of the zone within which the act is to be performed.
Page 595 - Provided, however, That when the President shall find and certify to the Interstate Commerce Commission that in order to defray the expenses of Federal control and operation fairly chargeable to railway operating expenses and also to pay railway tax accruals other than war taxes, net rents for joint facilities and equipment, and compensation to the carriers, operating as a unit, it is necessary to increase the railway operating revenues...
Page 245 - That carriers while under Federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or Federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other Act applicable to such Federal control or with any order of the President.
Page 338 - Federal control, and may consider all the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the making of the same. In determining any question concerning any such rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, or practices or changes therein, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall give due consideration to the fact that the transportation systems are being operated under a unified and co-ordinated national control and not in competition.
Page 245 - That during the period of Federal control, whenever in his opinion the public interest requires, the President may initiate rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices by filing the same with the Interstate Commerce Commission, which said rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall not be suspended by the commission pending final determination.
Page 243 - All transportation systems covered by said proclamation and order shall be operated as a national system of transportation, the common and national needs being in all instances held paramount to any actual or supposed corporate advantage. All terminals, ports, locomotives, rolling stock, and other transportation facilities are to be fully utilized to carry out this purpose without regard to ownership.
Page 243 - An Act to provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners and for other purposes...
Page 420 - If the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be of the opinion that any such existing specified service by water other than through the Panama Canal is being operated in the interest of the public and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people, and that such extension will neither exclude, prevent, nor reduce competition on the route by water under consideration...