Extention of Tenure of Government Control of Railroads: Hearings...Wash. 1919 |
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Page 1380
... expenses necessary in order to enable the rail- road company to carry my trunk weighing 100 pounds free ? The VICE CHAIRMAN . That same argument carried a little further would make them weigh you and Senator Newlands and make them ...
... expenses necessary in order to enable the rail- road company to carry my trunk weighing 100 pounds free ? The VICE CHAIRMAN . That same argument carried a little further would make them weigh you and Senator Newlands and make them ...
Page 1428
... expenses of operation by the Government resulting from the reduction of hours in services and increase in the number of employees ? Mr. THELEN . That is the question which I believe Senator New- lands put to me , and I made this answer ...
... expenses of operation by the Government resulting from the reduction of hours in services and increase in the number of employees ? Mr. THELEN . That is the question which I believe Senator New- lands put to me , and I made this answer ...
Page 1429
... expenses . Mr. SIMS . I assume that they can make something . A railroad that can not make operating expenses should not exist unless it is a governmental facility needed in the national defense and out of which the whole country get ...
... expenses . Mr. SIMS . I assume that they can make something . A railroad that can not make operating expenses should not exist unless it is a governmental facility needed in the national defense and out of which the whole country get ...
Page 1804
... expenses of operating the railroads in this country are considerably more or are something over half of their total expenses . Now , after the fixed expenses which a carrier has is paid the railroads are here and they have these expenses ...
... expenses of operating the railroads in this country are considerably more or are something over half of their total expenses . Now , after the fixed expenses which a carrier has is paid the railroads are here and they have these expenses ...
Page 1809
... expense of earning it is extra and goes that far toward maintaining the railroad . Inequalities in charges in favor ... expenses . I was about to say that some of the additional things that I have to present will be by way of filling in ...
... expense of earning it is extra and goes that far toward maintaining the railroad . Inequalities in charges in favor ... expenses . I was about to say that some of the additional things that I have to present will be by way of filling in ...
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amount authority BARTINE California capital carriers cent bonds Chicago Chief of Engineers coast terminals committee common stock Congress construction corporation cost court dividends earnings EDGERTON equipment ESCH expenses Federal fixed charges fourth section freight Frisco GARDINER Government grantee haul increase intermediate points intermountain Interstate Commerce Commission issue June 30 lines Louis MANN matter mileage miles mortgage navigation Nevada operation Orleans ownership Pacific coast Panama Canal Pittsburgh preferred stock present question rail railroad companies reason receiver receivership regulation Reno reorganization plan revenue road Rock Island Salt Lake City San Francisco Secretary Secretary of War securities Senator CUMMINS ships SIMS Southern Pacific Spokane taxes terminal rates territory Texas THELEN tion tonnage Total traffic transcontinental transportation United VICE CHAIRMAN Wabash water competition Western Pacific Western Pacific Railroad Western Pacific Railway WETRICK
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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.