Natural Gas: Hearing Before a Subcommittee on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11662, to Regulate the Transportation and Sale of Natural Gas in Interstate Commerce and for Other Purposes. April 2, 3, 7, 14, and 15, 1936U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936 - 160 pages |
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... enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , NECESSITY FOR REGULATION OF NATURAL - GAS COMPANIES SECTION 1. ( a ) As disclosed in reports of the Federal Trade Commission made ...
... enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , NECESSITY FOR REGULATION OF NATURAL - GAS COMPANIES SECTION 1. ( a ) As disclosed in reports of the Federal Trade Commission made ...
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... enacted by Congress in recent years to provide for Federal regulation of public utilities and of motor carriers , care has been exercised to avoid destruction of State powers . For this , on behalf of our association and speaking for ...
... enacted by Congress in recent years to provide for Federal regulation of public utilities and of motor carriers , care has been exercised to avoid destruction of State powers . For this , on behalf of our association and speaking for ...
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... enacted proper regulatory laws . In recent years , however , there has been a great development in the natural - gas industry . Natural gas is now sold to the public in 37 States . Most of these States are dependent upon other States ...
... enacted proper regulatory laws . In recent years , however , there has been a great development in the natural - gas industry . Natural gas is now sold to the public in 37 States . Most of these States are dependent upon other States ...
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... enacted into law , will meet the object principally aimed at in the resolution of our association . What the State com- missions ask is that Congress provide a Federal commission to which any State commission may apply to have the gate ...
... enacted into law , will meet the object principally aimed at in the resolution of our association . What the State com- missions ask is that Congress provide a Federal commission to which any State commission may apply to have the gate ...
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... enacted , and there shall be no occasion for its use in application to interstate transportation or sale of artificial gas , nothing will have been lost . On the other hand , if , as the probabilities are , the production of artificial ...
... enacted , and there shall be no occasion for its use in application to interstate transportation or sale of artificial gas , nothing will have been lost . On the other hand , if , as the probabilities are , the production of artificial ...
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Page 8 - Commission and to be adduced upon the hearing in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may seem proper. The Commission may modify its findings as to the facts by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and it shall file with the court such modified or new findings, which, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive, and its recommendation, if any, for the modification or setting aside of the original order.
Page 9 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 13 - It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 2 - No natural-gas company shall, with respect to any transportation or sale of natural gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, (1) make or grant any undue preference or advantage to any person or subject any person to any undue prejudice or disadvantage, or (2) maintain any unreasonable difference in rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, either as between localities or as between classes of service.
Page 6 - Commission, there to produce records, if so ordered, or to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found or may be doing business.
Page 8 - Whenever it shall appear to the Commission that any person is engaged or about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation...
Page 7 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for...
Page 8 - Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States, within any circuit wherein such person resides or has his principal place of business, or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, by filing in such court, within sixty days after the entry of such order, a written petition praying that the order of the Commission be modified or set aside in whole or in part.
Page 88 - The commission is not the financial manager of the corporation and it is not empowered to substitute its judgment for that of the directors of the corporation; nor can it ignore items charged by the utility as operating expenses unless there is an abuse of discretion in that regard by the corporate officers.
Page 7 - ... forfeiture ; but no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.