Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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Agent alleges Arkansas Asso basis Cairo carloads Carney's Point carriers cars Cedar Rapids Central cents per 100 Chamber of Commerce Chicago Cincinnati class rates classification coal COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS HALL commodity rate complainant complainant's consignee cream defendants demurrage destination Director distance DIVISION eastern EASTMAN effect exceeded exceptions were filed Express Company federal control Fort Smith freight furnaces grain haul hereinafter Illinois Increased Rates interstate commerce interstate commerce act intrastate rates joint rates June 25 Kansas City less-than-carload lighter or barge Little Rock long ton Louis lumber miles mills Ohio River operating Pacific passenger fares Pennsylvania Pine Bluff plainant plant points Portland pounds prior proportional rates proposed Rail Railroad Company Railway Company rates assailed rates charged reasonable reconsignment reparation respondent River route ship shipments moved shippers Southern spotting service Submitted switching tariff territory Texarkana Texas Thebes tion tracks transportation trunk lines undue prejudice unduly prejudicial unjust unreasonable Western York
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Σελίδα 205 - That any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one State to a point in another State shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it...
Σελίδα 267 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment...
Σελίδα 267 - Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing, finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Σελίδα 267 - In making such determination it shall give due consideration, among other things, to the transportation needs of the country and the necessity (under honest, efficient and economical management of existing transportation facilities) of enlarging such facilities in order to provide the people of the United States with adequate transportation...
Σελίδα 267 - Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Σελίδα 205 - States or within an adjacent foreign country when transported on a through bill of lading, notwithstanding any limitation of liability or limitation of the amount of recovery or representation or agreement as to value in any such receipt or bill of lading, or in any contract, rule, regulation, or in any tariff filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission ; and any such limitation, without respect to the manner or form in which it is sought to be made is hereby declared to be unlawful and void...
Σελίδα 267 - The Commission may confer with the authorities of any State having regulatory jurisdiction over the class of persons and corporations subject to this part or part III with respect to the relationship between rate structures and practices of carriers subject to the jurisdiction of such State bodies and of the Commission ; and to that end...
Σελίδα 220 - ... shall prescribe the rate, fare, or charge, or the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum, thereafter to be charged, and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed, in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination.
Σελίδα 267 - It is also clear that, in removing the injurious discriminations against interstate traffic arising from the relation of intrastate to interstate rates, Congress is not bound to reduce the latter below what it may deem to be a proper standard fair to the carrier and to the public. Otherwise, it could prevent the injury to interstate commerce only by the sacrifice of its judgment as to interstate rates. Congress is entitled to maintain its own standard as to these rates and to forbid any discriminatory...
Σελίδα 267 - Commission ; and to that end la authorized and empowered, under rules to be prescribed by It, and which may be modified from time to time, to hold joint hearings with any such State regulating bodies on any matters wherein the Commission is empowered to act and where the rate-making authority of a State Is or may be affected by the action taken by the Commission.