Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce CommissionThe Commission, 1914 - Interstate commerce |
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... commodity rates and form of commodity tariffs are pending . Investigation instituted by the Commission into the issuance and use of passes and franks and as to free passenger service . Reports appear in 26 I. C. C. , at page 491 ...
... commodity rates and form of commodity tariffs are pending . Investigation instituted by the Commission into the issuance and use of passes and franks and as to free passenger service . Reports appear in 26 I. C. C. , at page 491 ...
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... rates , or in the rates on traffic moving between the different rate territories in Official Classification territory . An increase by 5 per cent in the intraterritorial class and commodity rates in Central Freight Association ...
... rates , or in the rates on traffic moving between the different rate territories in Official Classification territory . An increase by 5 per cent in the intraterritorial class and commodity rates in Central Freight Association ...
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... rates are on a block system . There was wide difference of opinion among the express people as to the practicability or desira- bility of stating commodity rates in the same way , due to the fact that in many instances the commodity rates ...
... rates are on a block system . There was wide difference of opinion among the express people as to the practicability or desira- bility of stating commodity rates in the same way , due to the fact that in many instances the commodity rates ...
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... rates designed to protect its own communities and promote the development of its own industries . These rates are ... commodity rates , ac- cording to distance , from Shreveport to the Texas points than were in force from cities in ...
... rates designed to protect its own communities and promote the development of its own industries . These rates are ... commodity rates , ac- cording to distance , from Shreveport to the Texas points than were in force from cities in ...
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... rates for the transportation of any commodity from Shreveport toward Dallas and Houston , respec- tively , and intermediate points than were contemporaneously charged for the carriage of such commodity from Dallas and Houston toward ...
... rates for the transportation of any commodity from Shreveport toward Dallas and Houston , respec- tively , and intermediate points than were contemporaneously charged for the carriage of such commodity from Dallas and Houston toward ...
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Ann Arbor Railroad Asso authorized to continue carloads cents per 100 Chicago Circuit Court class rates classification Commerce Court Commission's order commodity rates common carriers Complaint dismissed concessions Court of Appeals defendants destinations discrimination district court eastern Elkins Act established false billing filed found unduly discriminatory found unreasonable Fourth Section Applications grain granting guilty entered held Illinois imposed indictment charging intermediate points Interstate Commerce Commission Investigation involves an order Iowa joint rates justified Louis Lumber Rates Memphis ment Missouri nolle prosequi nolo contendere Northern Northern Pacific Railway Ohio River operating expenses order of suspension Orleans Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad plea of guilty pounds Proposed increased rates rail Railroad Company reasonable roads routes and joint shipments shippers Shreveport southern New York Southern Pacific Co Southern Railway Supreme Court tap lines tariffs Tenn territory Texas tion traffic transit transportation trunk line undue United unjustly discriminatory unlawful violation Western
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Page 111 - Michigan : the southern classification which governs generally in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi River...
Page 29 - Wherever the interstate and intrastate transactions of carriers are so related that the government of the one involves the control of the other, it is Congress, and not the State, that is entitled to prescribe the final and dominant rule, for otherwise Congress would be denied the exercise of its constitutional authority and the State, and not the Nation, would be supreme within the national field.
Page 60 - Canal or elsewhere with which said railroad or other carrier aforesaid does or may compete for traffic or any vessel carrying freight or passengers upon said water route or elsewhere with which said railroad or other carrier aforesaid does or may compete for traffic; and in case of the violation •of this provision each day in which such violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
Page 60 - If the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be of the opinion that any such existing specified service by water other than through the Panama Canal is being operated in the interest of the public and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the people...
Page 156 - ... 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 31 - Provided, however, That upon application to the Commission appointed under the provisions of this act, such common carrier may, in special cases, after investigation by the Commission, be authorized 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 of this act SEC.
Page 65 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 148 - In two cases,1 however, which have been brought before the Commission that body has upheld the carriers in their practice of charging five cents more per hundred pounds for transporting flour from points in Missouri and Kansas to points in Texas than they charged for carrying wheat from the same points of origin to the same points of destination. The carriers made their defence partly on the basis of differences in the values of the two commodities and partly on differences in the cost of service....
Page 59 - From and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company or other common carrier subject to the Act to regulate commerce to own, lease, operate, control, or have any interest whatsoever (by stock ownership or otherwise, either directly, indirectly, through any holding company, or by stockholders or directors in common, or in any other manner) in any common carrier by water operated through the Panama Canal or elsewhere with which said railroad...
Page 60 - The commission may on its own motion or the application of any shipper institute proceedings to inquire into the operation of any vessel in use by any railroad or other carrier which has not applied to the commission and had...