Modification of Transportation Act, 1920: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First[-second] Session, on S. 1150 and S. 2150, Bills to Amend the Transportation Act, 1920, and for Other Purposes. October 24 to November 2, 1921, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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Page 137 - 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 on the other hand, or any undue, unreasonable or unjust discrimination against interstate or foreign commerce, which is hereby forbidden and declared to
Page 52 - unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce on the other hand, or any undue, unreasonable, or unjust discrimination against interstate or foreign commerce, which is hereby forbidden and declared to be unlawful, it
Page 331 - of such rate groups or territories as the commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient, and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way. structures, and equipment, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair
Page 471 - rates cause undue or unreasonable advantage, preference or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce on the other hand, or any undue, unreasonable, or unjust discrimination against interstate or foreign commerce,
Page 52 - such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination. Such rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall be observed while in effect by the carriers parties to such proceeding affected thereby, the law of any State or the decision or order of any State authority to the contrary notwithstanding. 1
Page 332 - All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property or in the transmission of intelligence by wire or wireless as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable, and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 82 - 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 on the other hand, or any undue, unreasonable, or unjust discrimination against interstate or foreign commerce.
Page 272 - Certain matters apart from mileage haul are specified which we must consider in fixing divisions. Out of the four so specified, two are as follows: "The amount of revenue required to pay their respective operating expenses, taxes, and a fair return on their railway property held for and used in the service
Page 283 - (a) To the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property, wholly within one State and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any place in the United States as aforesaid.
Page 542 - is empowered to act. The commission is also authorized to avail itself of the cooperation, services, records, and facilities of such State authorities in the enforcement of any provision of this act." That is the end of that paragraph. That is in general line with the provisions of the transportation act as it now stands. I have not in