...designated carriers may be relieved from the operation of the foregoing provisions of this section, but in exercising the authority conferred upon it...reasonably compensatory for the service performed; and no such authorization shall be granted on account of merely potential water competition not actually...

...extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section ; but in exercising the authority conferred upon it...distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for th«s service performed; and if a circuitous rail line or route is, because of such circuity, granted...

...exercising the authority conferred upon it to grant relief from the provisions of this section this " Commission shall not permit the establishment of any...reasonably compensatory for the service performed." In Transcontinental Cases of 1922, 78 ICC, 48," we said : The words " reasonably compensatory " imply...

...therein, was to comply with the reasonably compensatory requirement of section 4 which provides that " we shall not permit the establishment of any charge to...reasonably compensatory for the service performed," and also to prevent the rates from being applied over routes of such degrees of circuity as to result in...

...reasonably compensatory as contemplated by the act. Included in the fourth section is a mandate that " the Commission shall not permit the establishment...point that is not reasonably compensatory for the services performed." No evidence was offered bearing upon this feature of the proposed rates other...

...relieved from the operation of this section; but In exercising the authority conferred upon It IB till* proviso the Commission shall not permit the establishment...distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for UM service performed; and if a circuitous rail line or route it, because of tuck oircuity, granted...

...maintain lower rates for longer than for shorter distances is subject to the condition that it will not permit the establishment of any charge to or from...reasonably compensatory for the service performed. Transcontinental Combination Rates, 41 (43). Switching charges, as far as competition permits, should...

...long-and-short-haul provision of that section is limited. We may not, in exercising such authority, "permit the establishment of any charge to or from...reasonably compensatory for the service performed." We have heretofore, in dealing with general proposals such as the instant one, invariably placed some...

...will be entered. 1 The equidistant provision refers to that portion of section 4, which provides " If a circuitous rail line or route Is, because of such circuity, granted authority to meet the charge of a more direct line or route to or from competitive points and to maintain higher charges...

...section 4 is limited by the proviso that we shall not permit the establishment of any charge to or from a more distant point that is not reasonably compensatory for the service performed. In Transcontinental Cases of 1922, 74 ICC 48, we said at page 71 : we are of opinion and find that...