...may be termed a rule of rate making, indicating certain factors which, among others, the Commission, in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates, must take into consideration. The bill provides (sec. 206) for the return to carriers of amounts which...

...Interstate Commerce Act, as added by section 422 of the Transportation Act. That section provides : "(2) 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...

...transportation and among such carriers in the public interest;" and in section 216 (i) it is stated that in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...Commission shall give due consideration, among other things, "to the inherent advantages of transportation by such carriers" and "to the need in the public...

...distances. In exercising its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission is required to give due consideration, among other factors, to the...of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier )r carriers for which the rates are prescribed. It is clear that the continuance of the assailed 31-cent...

...Section 15a (2) of the act provides that in passing upon the justness and reasonableness of rates we shall "give due consideration, among other factors,...to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the...

...the Emergency Transportation Act, 1933. There somewhat different language was used, as follows: 15a. (2) In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give <lue consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the...

...exercise of our power to prescribe just and reasonable rates for transportation subject to part I, to give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic and to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient rail transportation service. Section...

...commerce, as amended, which prescribes a new statutory rule of ratemaking. The statute reads as follows: 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 the act is also referred to, which requires the Commission as a rule of rate making to give — consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the...

...in effect; and (c) the facts that section 15a of the act requires that due consideration be given, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic, and that because of the competition of barge routes through Mississippi River crossings and ports on...