Extention of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads: Hearings...Wash. 1919 |
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Page 1365
... believe the rail- roads have in connection with the general subject of Federal incor- poration of railroads . Senator CUMMINS . Without attempting to recite the various points of your argument , as I remember it , you were opposed to a ...
... believe the rail- roads have in connection with the general subject of Federal incor- poration of railroads . Senator CUMMINS . Without attempting to recite the various points of your argument , as I remember it , you were opposed to a ...
Page 1372
... believe that the Federal Govern- ment can do everything directly which it can do through an agency . Senator CUMMINS . So your opposition to Federal incorporation , from your standpoint , comes to this , that Congress as a practical ...
... believe that the Federal Govern- ment can do everything directly which it can do through an agency . Senator CUMMINS . So your opposition to Federal incorporation , from your standpoint , comes to this , that Congress as a practical ...
Page 1392
... believe have not been filled , but the members , as I understand them , on the new committee , as far as it has been appointed , are Senator Bristow , of Kansas , as chairman ; Commissioner Carl D. Jackson , chairman of the Railroad ...
... believe have not been filled , but the members , as I understand them , on the new committee , as far as it has been appointed , are Senator Bristow , of Kansas , as chairman ; Commissioner Carl D. Jackson , chairman of the Railroad ...
Page 1397
... believe that is a case where the necessity for cooperation is as evident as in some other fields of public - utility regulation . In other words , I believe that at the present time the States can pretty well handle those things ...
... believe that is a case where the necessity for cooperation is as evident as in some other fields of public - utility regulation . In other words , I believe that at the present time the States can pretty well handle those things ...
Page 1399
... believe . Congress took in connection with the regulation of ships . The CHAIRMAN . You think that in those matters , that the local commissions - the State commissions - can better protect the public interests both in the States and as ...
... believe . Congress took in connection with the regulation of ships . The CHAIRMAN . You think that in those matters , that the local commissions - the State commissions - can better protect the public interests both in the States and as ...
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Page 1569 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 1594 - ... 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, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or to charge any greater compensation as a through route than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to the provisions of this Act...
Page 1529 - ... 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 1915 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 1594 - That upon application to the Commission such common carrier may in special cases, after investigation, be authorized by the Commission to charge less for longer than for shorter distances...
Page 1566 - At a General Session of the Interstate Commerce Commission, held at its office In Washington, DC, on the 19th day of May AD 1914.
Page 1570 - Commission such common carrier may in special cases, after investigation, be authorized by the Commission to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of passengers or property; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section...
Page 1927 - That nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or in any way interfere with or modify the laws of the States which lie wholly or in part westward of the ninety-eighth meridian relating to the ownership, control, appropriation, use. and distribution of ground or surface waters within any unpatented mining claim.
Page 1921 - Any construction, operation, or abandonment contrary to the provisions of this paragraph or of paragraph (18) or (19) of this section may be enjoined by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the United States, the Commission, any commission or regulating body of the State or States affected, or any party in interest...
Page 1460 - States, and with one another, that during the present war they will coordinate their operations in a continental railway system, merging during such period all their merely individual and competitive activities in the effort to produce a maximum of national transportation efficiency.