Modification of Transportation Act, 1920: Hearings...on S. 1150 and S. 2510...Oct. 24 to Dec. 15, 1921, and Jan. 5, 19221922 - 718 pages |
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... government which was adopted by the founding fathers , and followed for 130 years , has shocked our people . The results have not carried compensating advantages to anybody . They have injured the carriers . They have disturbed business ...
... government which was adopted by the founding fathers , and followed for 130 years , has shocked our people . The results have not carried compensating advantages to anybody . They have injured the carriers . They have disturbed business ...
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... government has worked well , not be- cause it was so designed as to offer no opportunity for conflict between State and Federal powers , but because generally our people have had such capacity for government as to avoid confl et . They ...
... government has worked well , not be- cause it was so designed as to offer no opportunity for conflict between State and Federal powers , but because generally our people have had such capacity for government as to avoid confl et . They ...
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... Government is under no necessity of ousting the States of their powers of local self - government , which they have been permitted to exercise from the foundation of this Government to the present time . I have heard the argument made ...
... Government is under no necessity of ousting the States of their powers of local self - government , which they have been permitted to exercise from the foundation of this Government to the present time . I have heard the argument made ...
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... government for the assertion of State power in hostility to the authorized exercise of Federal power . The authority of Congress extends to every part of interstate commerce , and to every instrumentality or agency by which it is ...
... government for the assertion of State power in hostility to the authorized exercise of Federal power . The authority of Congress extends to every part of interstate commerce , and to every instrumentality or agency by which it is ...
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... Government . I never have felt that that was a workable provision , and I just want to call attention to the fact that there are two or three reasons why that is so . In the first place you have the difficulty of administering it . And ...
... Government . I never have felt that that was a workable provision , and I just want to call attention to the fact that there are two or three reasons why that is so . In the first place you have the difficulty of administering it . And ...
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25 per cent advance amendment application asked August 26 authority BENTON bill BURR carriers cars CHAIRMAN coal Commis commissioners committee commodities common carriers Congress CowAN decision discrimination against interstate district earnings effect Esch-Cummins Act evidence Ex parte 74 fact fair return Federal commission filed fixed Florida freight rates further Government hearing increase Inter interstate commerce act Interstate Commerce Commission interstate traffic intrastate rates Iowa jurisdiction Kansas matter merce Commission mission National Association Nebraska Nevada commission North Dakota operating opinion passenger fares points prescribed present proceeding provisions question railroads reasonable rates record regulation resolution result revenue roads SCANDRETT section 13 Senator FERNALD Senator KELLOGG Senator LA FOLLETTE Senator POINDEXTER Senator POMERENE SHAUGHNESSY shippers Shreveport situation South Carolina statement Supreme Court tion Tonopah transportation act United States Senator unjust discrimination unreasonable western Whereas York
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Page 493 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic...
Page 194 - 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 230 - 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 574 - ... 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 177 - Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property, wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.
Page 208 - ... attach to the issuance of the certificate such terms and conditions as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require.
Page 146 - 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 327 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this Act, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby...
Page 26 - 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.
Page 28 - 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.