Adjustment of Freight Rates Upon Export Grain: Hearing...on S.J.res. 67...Feb. 1929 |
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agricultural products Arthur Capper asked Atlantic ports average BRENCKMAN bushels of wheat Canada Canadian grain Canadian railroads Canadian rates Capper cents a bushel Chairman WATSON Chicago coal COGSWELL committee Congress crop density of traffic depression Duluth Ex parte 95 excess export grain export rates export wheat factor fair return farm organizations farmer pays freight rates Galveston Governor REED grain and grain grain investigation Grange GRAY group of railroads Gulf ports hard winter wheat hearing Hoch-Smith resolution interstate commerce act Interstate Commerce Commission Kans Kansas City miles Minn Minneapolis Montana move North Dakota Northwest railroads northwestern railroads Orleans price of wheat primary market protein question rates on wheat reduced Senator Capper's resolution Senator FESS Senator GOFF Senator SACKETT Senator WHEELER Shipping Board situation Southwest southwestern statement surplus territory THORP tion transportation Union Pacific United VESECKY western wheat grower world market world price
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Page 29 - The committee resumed at 2 o'clock pm, at the expiration of the recess. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order.
Page 27 - But a finding without evidence is beyond the power of the Commission. Papers in the Commission's files are not always evidence in a case. . . . Nothing can be treated as evidence which is not introduced as such.
Page 3 - American farmer. In actual figures, the competing farmers from the Argentine, for instance, have felt an increase in rates of only 2 cents per bushel. I believe there is general agreement that the cost of transportation is a deduction from the price the farmer receives at the world's markets — and besides that the price at which he realizes his surplus in foreign and seaboard markets makes the price of his whole product at home, so that the effect of increased transportation rates to these markets...
Page 27 - ... supposed benefit that the carrier might get from the advance use of money would be more than offset by the increased expenses, and said that the question whether the scrip ticket would stimulate travel was a matter of speculation. After thus excluding the grounds upon which the order could be justified, the Commission held that the obvious spirit and apparent purpose of the law required that the experiment should be tried, and on these premises declared that the reduced rates would be 'just and...
Page 27 - It seems to us plain that the Commission was not prepared to make its order on independent grounds apart from the deference naturally paid to the supposed wishes of Congress. But we think that it erred in reading the wishes that originated the statute as an effective term of the statute that was passed, and therefore that the present order cannot stand.
Page 24 - Commission, the first being a letter from Hon. CA Prouty, dated Apr. 9, 1914 (printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce...
Page 27 - The commission held that the obvious spirit and apparent purpose of the law required that the experiment should be tried, and on these premises declared that the rates resulting from the reduction of 20 per cent would be • just and reasonable for this class of travel.
Page 3 - ... our farmers lies to a considerable degree in Argentina, Australia, Eastern Europe and India. Those agricultural areas are all nearer to seaboard and their ocean rates to the common markets remain the same as prewar, while our rail rates to seaboard on wheat, for instance, have increased about 8 to 18 cents per bushel. Therefore foreign farmers reach European markets at a less cost in proportion to prewar than can our Mid-West American farmer.
Page 2 - ... be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas, the senate concurring therein...
Page 2 - I hereby certify that the above concurrent resolution originated in the house, and was adopted by that body February 16, 1959.