Regulation of Railway Rates: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Fifty-eighth Congress, Third Session on Bills to Amend the Interstate Commerce Act. December 16, 1904, to February 23, 1905, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Railroad law |
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Page 2930
... costs from $ 1.23 to $ 1.33 per 100 pounds . This is but one of the numerous instances we can cite , but will serve for the ... cost of $ 27.80 per ton , against $ 30.80 per ton if shipped from Alabama . The rail- roads , seeing that a ...
... costs from $ 1.23 to $ 1.33 per 100 pounds . This is but one of the numerous instances we can cite , but will serve for the ... cost of $ 27.80 per ton , against $ 30.80 per ton if shipped from Alabama . The rail- roads , seeing that a ...
Page 2977
... cost of the material at the mill . So that it is essentially an in- dustry that goes to the question of the regulation of freight rates . Our own business represents some of the largest cement works . Senator KEAN . What is the tonnage ...
... cost of the material at the mill . So that it is essentially an in- dustry that goes to the question of the regulation of freight rates . Our own business represents some of the largest cement works . Senator KEAN . What is the tonnage ...
Page 2998
... cost of mining the coal , and then the cost of railroad transportation . Another way to establish a rate would be at some fixed proportion of the average of the selling price of the coal at tide water . If they , the carriers , are ...
... cost of mining the coal , and then the cost of railroad transportation . Another way to establish a rate would be at some fixed proportion of the average of the selling price of the coal at tide water . If they , the carriers , are ...
Page 3011
... cost of service , the cost of movements , the value of the service to the shipper , and the fluctuating interests manifested in competition . It requires a man who is constantly in the business , they say , who has done nothing else ...
... cost of service , the cost of movements , the value of the service to the shipper , and the fluctuating interests manifested in competition . It requires a man who is constantly in the business , they say , who has done nothing else ...
Page 3025
... Cost of ma- rine risk to be by the issue of SEC . 3. No water line or combined water and rail line shall assume the cost of insurance against marine risk in assumed only any other manner than herein provided for , viz , by the insured ...
... Cost of ma- rine risk to be by the issue of SEC . 3. No water line or combined water and rail line shall assume the cost of insurance against marine risk in assumed only any other manner than herein provided for , viz , by the insured ...
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Page 3144 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 3311 - ... be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 2954 - This clause enables the judicial department to receive jurisdiction to the full extent of the constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, when any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting on . it. That power is capable of acting only when the subject is submitted to it by a party who asserts his rights in the form prescribed by law. It then becomes a case, and the constitution declares that the judicial power shall extend to all cases...
Page 3558 - The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
Page 2951 - It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which have been charged and collected are reasonable — that is a judicial act ; but an entirely different thing to prescribe rates which shall be charged in the future — that is a legislative act.
Page 3559 - At all times and places, that is dear which it is difficult to come at, or which it costs much labour to acquire ; and that cheap which is to be had easily, or with very little labour.
Page 3177 - An employer who shall have contributed to an insurance fund created and maintained for the mutual purpose of indemnifying an employee for personal injuries, for which compensation may be recovered under this act, or to any • relief society...
Page 3209 - Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee, or the person entitled thereto, on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.
Page 3149 - That no contract of employment, insurance, relief, benefit, or indemnity for injury or death entered into by or on behalf of any employe, nor the acceptance of any such insurance, relief, benefit, or indemnity by the person entitled thereto...
Page 3143 - ... in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory of the United States...