Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 215L.K. Strouse, 1936 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amount application Atchison authorized automobiles average basis Belleville bituminous coal bunkers car-mile carloads carriers cars central territory cents Chicago class rates coal COMMISSION DIVISION COMMISSIONERS commodity rates competition complainant cost defendants depreciation destinations direct routes distance district DuQuoin emergency charges established expenses Express Company filed first-class rates fourth-section freight Fruit Growers Express Fulton-Peoria further hearing Grand Saline haul Illinois territories intermediate points Interstate Commerce Act intrastate Iowa Kansas City less than carloads line or route Louis Louisiana Louisville Memphis miles mills per ton-mile Minneapolis Mississippi River moved movement official territory Ohio Oklahoma operating Pacific Pacific Fruit Express plant Port pounds proceeding proposed rates provision of section rail Railroad Company Railway Company rates assailed reasonable refrigeration service refrigerator cars relief reparation respect respondents revenue Santa Fe shipments shipped shippers South southern Illinois stations supra switching tariff Texas tion traffic transportation trunk-line territory unreasonable western trunk-line York
Popular passages
Page 227 - 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 408 - employer" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The...
Page 495 - Act to charge or receive 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 rate than the aggregate of the intermediate rates subject to the provisions of this Act...
Page 408 - ... general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized and directed upon request of the Board, or upon complaint of any party interested, to determine after hearing whether any line operated by electric power falls within the terms of this proviso. The term "employer...
Page 312 - ... the latter were not related to the interstate fares or charges in such a way as to contravene the provisions of the interstate commerce act.
Page 525 - The Commission shall, as soon as practicable, prescribe, for carriers subject to this Act, the classes of property for which depreciation charges may properly be included under operating expenses, and the percentages of depreciation which shall be charged with respect to each of such classes of property, classifying the carriers as it may deem proper for this purpose.
Page 590 - That there is an element of value in an assembled and established plant, doing business and earning money, over one not thus advanced, is self-evident. This element of value is a property right, and should be considered in determining the value of the property, upon which the owner has a right to make a fair return when the same is privately owned although dedicated to public use.
Page 524 - In establishing any such through route the Commission shall not (except as provided in section 3, and except where one of the carriers is a water line), require any carrier by railroad, without its consent, to embrace in such route substantially less than the entire length of its railroad...
Page 540 - If the class rate on the same article via the same route from the intermediate point produces a lower charge than would result from applying the commodity rate under this rule, such commodity rate will not apply.
Page 524 - ... to embrace in such route substantially less than the entire length of its railroad and of any intermediate railroad operated in conjunction and under a common management or control therewith, which lies between the termini of such proposed through route, (a) unless such inclusion of lines would make the through route unreasonably long as compared with another practicable through route which could otherwise be established...