Freight Rates: Official Classification Territory and Eastern CanadaLaSalle Extension University, 1913 - 295 pages |
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100 per cent Albany all-rail rates arbitraries Balti Baltimore and Philadelphia Baltimore rates basis for rates Belington Boston C. F. A. Territory CARLOADS carriers cent group cent points centage Central Freight Association cents per 100 class rates Commission commodity rates competition Cumberland group eastbound eastern groups Erie export rates Freight Rates grain and grain grain products group the rates groups on Map higher Lake Lake Michigan less Louis lower crossings Map 9 Minn Mississippi River ocean rates Ohio River percentage groups percentage points percentage territory Philadelphia Philadelphia and Baltimore Pittsburgh points east points taking Port Huron rail rail-and-lake rates Railroad rate territories rates apply rates from Chicago rates from percentage rates on grain routes shipments shown in item shown in Table shown on Map Trunk Line Territory upper crossings via rail Virginia Cities Virginian Railway westbound rates western points Western Termini York rates York to Chicago York-Chicago rates
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Page 26 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of passengers or of like kind of property, under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line, in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance...
Page 214 - Pittsburg ; on the South by the Ohio River; on the West by the Mississippi River, and on the North by the Great Lakes and a line running from Chicago nearly due west to Dubuque, Iowa.
Page 206 - If for any reason the canal were to be entirely shut up so that no grain could be transported by it, it would by no means follow that all the grain which had formerly come to New York by canal ought now to come there by rail. Quite the contrary. This canal traffic ought now to be distributed in the same proportions over the various lines leading to the different ports. New York has no vested right in the having of so much grain shipped to that port. The canal has been a most important element in...
Page 215 - We have endeavored to find some fundamental principle by the application of which this dispute might be laid at rest, but entirely without success. It is said that a fair differential is one which would give to these several ports the traffic to which they are entitled. It is also said that these several ports are entitled to what of this traffic they can obtain under a fair' differential." The findings declare, "there is no testimony in this record which attempts to show the relative cost of handling...
Page 215 - The real question is, On what basis shall rates be equalized through the various ports ? " Again it is said — when the Commission examined this subject In the Produce Exchange case * * * Its only function was to determine whether the act to regulate commerce had been violated. Our relation to the subject to-day Is a b'roader one, certainly If we comply with the request of the petitioners, at whose Instigation this proceeding was Instituted. We are to say, not whether these differentials are lawful...
Page 215 - If it can be properly done these ports should all be kept open for the transaction of this export business upon such terms that each one may fairly compete for it. No marked advantage should be given, certainly not by the creation of artificial conditions, to any one port over the other. The ideal condition would be the establishment of such rates that enterprise at either port in the way of improvement in service or facilities might be rewarded by increased business, and that there might exist that...
Page 254 - We have no Jurisdiction over the ocean rates and must deal with this question as though the ports were destinations Instead of gateways. This does not mean that the carriers may not take into consideration the previous or further transportation of the traffic on the ocean and thus...
Page 146 - ... and rigidly adhere to it. And, finally, water competition, causing constant fluctuations in the lake and Ohio River rates, while directly potent only at waterway points, was continually putting the through rates from these points out of line with the local rates from non-competitive inland centres. Or, perhaps, the Ohio River and lake rates would be out of joint with one another. The Chicago basis, if applied to Paducah, would make a rate on tobacco that would send it via New Orleans.
Page 215 - Norfolk ; and it will further be seen by reference to the tables given in the findings of fact that this embraces a very considerable part of the rail movement by which our entire exports reach the seaboard. When the Commission examined this subject in the Produce Exchange Case, 7 ICC Rep. 612, its only function was to determine whether the Act to regulate commerce had been violated. Our relation to the subject to-day is a broader one, certainly if we comply with the request of the petitioners at...
Page 184 - Railway companies may make whatever rates, form whatever lines, and establish whatever differentials they deem best for the purpose of securing and conducting transportation, provided the just interests of the public are not sacrificed thereby, and whether in so doing they act wisely or unwisely, fairly or unfairly between themselves, is not for the commission to determine; the jurisdiction of the commission is confined to inquiring whether the situation which the carriers have created is in violation...