Modification of Transportation Act, 1920: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 1150 and S. 2510, Bills to Amend the Transportation Act, 1920, and for Other Purposes. October 24 to December 15, 1921, and January 5, 1922Considers legislation to restrict ICC jurisdiction in matters related to Federal regulation of intrastate transportation rates. |
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Page 268 - ... attach to the issuance of the certificate such terms and conditions as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require.
Page 45 - ... 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, 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...
Page 82 - Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers, or of like kind of property, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction...
Page 58 - 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. The Commission is also authorized to avail itself of the cooperation, services, records, and facilities of such State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this Act.
Page 246 - State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this act. "(4) 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...
Page 3 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 56 - Act, all orders of the Commission, other than orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time, not less than thirty days, and shall continue in force until, its further order, or for a specified period of time, according as shall be prescribed in the order, unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission, or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 327 - In extension of any pending complaint or without any complaint whatever, the Commission shall be of opinion that any Individual or joint rate, fare, or charge whatsoever demanded, charged, or collected by any common carrier or carriers subject to...
Page 45 - 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...
Page 46 - The authority of congress extends to every part of interstate commerce and to every instrumentality or agency by which it is carried on: and the full control by congress of the subjects committed to Its regulation is not to be denied or thwarted by the commingling of interstate and intrastate operations.