| United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Interstate commerce committee - 1924 - 840 pages
...subsequent remarks will know exactly what are the provisions of paragraph 2. I will read it in the record : In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates t IIP coinmis<i..>n shall initiate, modify, establish, and adjust such rates so that the carriel whole,... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1925 - 922 pages
...those of a common carrier * * *. [Italics ours.] Section 15a of the interstate commerce act provides that : In the exercise of its power to prescribe just...modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers will « * earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1925 - 1386 pages
...observed. We so stated in the Kansas case. Our duty is in part set forth in the act in this language : In the exercise of Its power to prescribe just and...modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers us a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1925 - 784 pages
...particular rateas to that there can not be the slightest doubt; the language of the law is clear on that. In the exercise of its power to prescribe just...initiate, modify, establish, or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a wnole, or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the commission... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1925 - 780 pages
...clear on that. Mr. Thorn just brings to my attention the provision of the law. which I will read : In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...initiate, modify, establish, or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a whole, or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the commission... | |
| Rodney Loomer Mott - 1925 - 420 pages
...Commission to deal with intrastate rates. What is done under that section is to be done by the Commission "in the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates," ie, powers derived from previous amendments to the Interstate Commerce Act, which have never been construed... | |
| William T. Jackman - 1926 - 826 pages
...assure the railroads a revenue which the legislators regarded as satisfactory. This section provides: "In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and...initiate, modify, establish, or adjust such rates so that-carriers as a whole or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the commission... | |
| Hobart Stephen Perry - 1926 - 118 pages
...Transportation Act of 1920. 7 The most important feature of the Section requires that "in theexerercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates,...initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a whole (or in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time... | |
| Hastings Lyon - 1926 - 620 pages
...of the act may be regarded as excess profits. . RATES In the matter of rates the Act provides that the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that the carriers as a whole (or as a whole in such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from... | |
| United States U. S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration - 1928 - 200 pages
...does not rest upon tonnage alone. By section 15(a) of the interstate commerce act Congress declared that "* * * In the exercise of its power to...establish, or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole * * * will * * * earn an aggregate annual return equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return." on... | |
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